title: Variable selection for generalized canonical correlation analysis.
abstract: Regularized generalized canonical correlation analysis (RGCCA) is a generalization of regularized canonical correlation analysis to 3 or more sets of variables. RGCCA is a component-based approach which aims to study the relationships between several sets of variables. The quality and interpretability of the RGCCA components are likely to be affected by the usefulness and relevance of the variables in each block. Therefore, it is an important issue to identify within each block which subsets of significant variables are active in the relationships between blocks. In this paper, RGCCA is extended to address the issue of variable selection. Specifically, sparse generalized canonical correlation analysis (SGCCA) is proposed to combine RGCCA with an [Formula: see text]-penalty in a unified framework. Within this framework, blocks are not necessarily fully connected, which makes SGCCA a flexible method for analyzing a wide variety of practical problems. Finally, the versatility and usefulness of SGCCA are illustrated on a simulated dataset and on a 3-block dataset which combine gene expression, comparative genomic hybridization, and a qualitative phenotype measured on a set of 53 children with glioma. SGCCA is available on CRAN as part of the RGCCA package.
authors.affiliation: SUPELEC, Plateau de moulon, 3 rue Joliot-Curie, 91192 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France arthur.tenenhaus@supelec.fr.
authors.forename: Arthur
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Tenenhaus
authors.affiliation: CNRS-IGR-Paris XI university, UMR8203, 94805 Villejuif cedex, France.
authors.forename: Cathy
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Philippe
authors.affiliation: NEUROSPIN, I2BM, CEA saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette cedex, France.
authors.forename: Vincent
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Guillemot
authors.affiliation: Queensland Facility for Advanced Bioinformatics, University of Queensland, 306 Carmody Road, St Lucia, QLD 4072, Australia.
authors.forename: Kim-Anh
authors.initials: KA
authors.lastname: Le Cao
authors.affiliation: CNRS-IGR-Paris XI university, UMR8203, 94805 Villejuif cedex, France.
authors.forename: Jacques
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Grill
authors.affiliation: NEUROSPIN, I2BM, CEA saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette cedex, France.
authors.forename: Vincent
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Frouin
mesh_terms: D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology; D002648:Child; D003198:Computer Simulation; D003627:Data Interpretation, Statistical; D006801:Humans; D015233:Models, Statistical
keywords: Generalized canonical correlation analysis; Multiblock data analysis; Variable selection