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ReviewBriefings in bioinformatics2015

A selective review of robust variable selection with applications in bioinformatics.

Cen Wu, Shuangge Ma

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Review in Briefings in bioinformatics, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 63 papers.

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63 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

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2 authors.

Cen Wu
Shuangge Ma

Funding

Yale Pathology Tissue Services Shared ResourceP30CA016359 · NCI · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI DAVID L RIMM · 1985 to 2026
$85.0M
Yale SPORE in Skin CancerP50CA121974 · NCI · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI DAVID F STERN · 2006 to 2026
$43.9M
Predicting Adjuvant Chemotherapy Response in Lung CancerR01CA152301 · NCI · UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER · PI XIE, YANG · 2010 to 2014
$1.5M
Development of Integrated Analysis Methods and Applications to TCGA dataR03CA182984 · NCI · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI MA, SHUANGGE · 2014 to 2015
$167k
NCI NIH HHS CA152301NCI NIH HHS CA182984NCI NIH HHS P30CA16359NCI NIH HHS P50 CA121974NCI NIH HHS P50CA121974
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A drastic amount of data have been and are being generated in bioinformatics studies. In the analysis of such data, the standard modeling approaches can be challenged by the heavy-tailed errors and outliers in response variables, the contamination in predictors (which may be caused by, for instance, technical problems in microarray gene expression studies), model mis-specification and others. Robust methods are needed to tackle these challenges. When there are a large number of predictors, variable selection can be as important as estimation. As a generic variable selection and regularization tool, penalization has been extensively adopted. In this article, we provide a selective review of robust penalized variable selection approaches especially designed for high-dimensional data from bioinformatics and biomedical studies. We discuss the robust loss functions, penalty functions and computational algorithms. The theoretical properties and implementation are also briefly examined. Application examples of the robust penalization approaches in representative bioinformatics and biomedical studies are also illustrated.

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Computational BiologyModels, Theoreticalbioinformatics studypenalizationrobust methodsvariable selection

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PMID25479793
PMCPMC4570200

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