An experimental comparison of gene selection by Lasso and Dantzig selector for cancer classification |
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Authors: | Zheng Songfeng Liu Weixiang |
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Institution: | aDepartment of Mathematics, Missouri State University, 901 S. National Ave., Springfield, MO 65897, USA;bBiomedical Engineering Lab, School of Medicine, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, Guangdong 518060, China |
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Abstract: | Selecting a subset of genes with strong discriminative power is a very important step in classification problems based on gene expression data. Lasso and Dantzig selector are known to have automatic variable selection ability in linear regression analysis. This paper applies Lasso and Dantzig selector to select the most informative genes for representing the probability of an example being positive as a linear function of the gene expression data. The selected genes are further used to fit different classifiers for cancer classification. Comparative experiments were conducted on six publicly available cancer datasets, and the detailed comparison results show that in general, Lasso is more capable than Dantzig selector at selecting informative genes for cancer classification. |
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Keywords: | Dantzig selector Lasso Gene selection Cancer classification |
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