VARIABLE SELECTION FOR SPARSE DIRICHLET-MULTINOMIAL REGRESSION WITH AN APPLICATION TO MICROBIOME DATA ANALYSIS

• Published in: The annals of applied statistics Vol. 7; no. 1
• Main Authors: Chen, Jun, Li, Hongzhe
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 01.03.2013
• Subjects: Counts data; Sparse group penalty; Overdispersion; Coordinate descent; Regularized likelihood

With the development of next generation sequencing technology, researchers have now been able to study the microbiome composition using direct sequencing, whose output are bacterial taxa counts for each microbiome sample. One goal of microbiome study is to associate the microbiome composition with e...