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ArticleJournal of the American Statistical Association2025

Integrated path stability selection.

Omar Melikechi, Jeffrey W Miller

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Article in Journal of the American Statistical Association, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2 authors.

Omar MelikechiDepartment of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
Jeffrey W MillerDepartment of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

Funding

Statistical methods for cancer genomics and cell-free DNA analysisR01CA240299 · NCI · HARVARD UNIVERSITY D/B/A HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH · PI MILLER, JEFFREY WAYNE · 2020 to 2024
$1.7M
Improving inferences on health effects of chemical exposuresR01ES035625 · NIEHS · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI David Brian Dunson · 2023 to 2026
$1.6M
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA240299NIEHS NIH HHS R01 ES035625
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Stability selection is a popular method for improving feature selection algorithms. One of its key attributes is that it provides theoretical upper bounds on the expected number of false positives, E(FP), enabling false positive control in practice. However, stability selection often selects few features because existing bounds on E(FP) are relatively loose. In this paper, we introduce a novel approach to stability selection based on integrating stability paths rather than maximizing over them. This yields upper bounds on E(FP) that are much stronger than previous bounds, leading to significantly more true positives in practice for the same target E(FP). Furthermore, our method requires no more computation than the original stability selection algorithm. We demonstrate the method on simulations and real data from two cancer studies.

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Bootstraperror controlfeature selectionresamplingvariable selection

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PMID41624148
PMCPMC12858284

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