title: Advanced colorectal neoplasia risk stratification by penalized logistic regression.
abstract: Colorectal cancer is the second leading cause of death from cancer in the United States. To facilitate the efficiency of colorectal cancer screening, there is a need to stratify risk for colorectal cancer among the 90% of US residents who are considered "average risk." In this article, we investigate such risk stratification rules for advanced colorectal neoplasia (colorectal cancer and advanced, precancerous polyps). We use a recently completed large cohort study of subjects who underwent a first screening colonoscopy. Logistic regression models have been used in the literature to estimate the risk of advanced colorectal neoplasia based on quantifiable risk factors. However, logistic regression may be prone to overfitting and instability in variable selection. Since most of the risk factors in our study have several categories, it was tempting to collapse these categories into fewer risk groups. We propose a penalized logistic regression method that automatically and simultaneously selects variables, groups categories, and estimates their coefficients by penalizing the [Formula: see text]-norm of both the coefficients and their differences. Hence, it encourages sparsity in the categories, i.e. grouping of the categories, and sparsity in the variables, i.e. variable selection. We apply the penalized logistic regression method to our data. The important variables are selected, with close categories simultaneously grouped, by penalized regression models with and without the interactions terms. The models are validated with 10-fold cross-validation. The receiver operating characteristic curves of the penalized regression models dominate the receiver operating characteristic curve of naive logistic regressions, indicating a superior discriminative performance.
authors.affiliation: Department of Statistics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA yzlinn@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Yunzhi
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Lin
authors.affiliation: Department of Biostatistics & Medical Informatics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
authors.forename: Menggang
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Yu
authors.affiliation: Department of Statistics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA Department of Biostatistics & Medical Informatics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
authors.forename: Sijian
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: Department of Statistics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA Department of Biostatistics & Medical Informatics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
authors.forename: Richard
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Chappell
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, Indiana University, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA Regenstrief Institute, Inc. and Roudebush VA Medical Center, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.
authors.forename: Thomas F
authors.initials: TF
authors.lastname: Imperiale
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D015331:Cohort Studies; D003113:Colonoscopy; D015179:Colorectal Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D016015:Logistic Models; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012372:ROC Curve; D018570:Risk Assessment; D012307:Risk Factors
keywords: colorectal cancer; interaction; lasso; penalized logistic regression; risk stratification
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