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- Title
Simple and flexible classification of gene expression microarrays via Swirls and Ripples.
- Authors
Baker, Stuart G.
- Abstract
Background: A simple classification rule with few genes and parameters is desirable when applying a classification rule to new data. One popular simple classification rule, diagonal discriminant analysis, yields linear or curved classification boundaries, called Ripples, that are optimal when gene expression levels are normally distributed with the appropriate variance, but may yield poor classification in other situations. Results: A simple modification of diagonal discriminant analysis yields smooth highly nonlinear classification boundaries, called Swirls, that sometimes outperforms Ripples. In particular, if the data are normally distributed with different variances in each class, Swirls substantially outperforms Ripples when using a pooled variance to reduce the number of parameters. The proposed classification rule for two classes selects either Swirls or Ripples after parsimoniously selecting the number of genes and distance measures. Applications to five cancer microarray data sets identified predictive genes related to the tissue organization theory of carcinogenesis. Conclusion: The parsimonious selection of classifiers coupled with the selection of either Swirls or Ripples provides a good basis for formulating a simple, yet flexible, classification rule. Open source software is available for download.
- Subjects
GENES; DISCRIMINANT analysis; RIPPLES (Fluid dynamics); MULTIVARIATE analysis; STATISTICAL correlation
- Publication
BMC Bioinformatics, 2010, Vol 11, p452
- ISSN
1471-2105
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1186/1471-2105-11-452