Stability Selection for Lasso, Ridge and Elastic Net Implemented with AFT Models

The instability in the selection of models is a major concern with data sets containing a large number of covariates. We focus on stability selection which is used as a technique to improve variable selection performance for a range of selection methods, based on aggregating the results of applying...

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Published inarXiv.org
Main Authors Md Hasinur Rahaman Khan, Bhadra, Anamika, Howlader, Tamanna
Format Paper
LanguageEnglish
Published Ithaca Cornell University Library, arXiv.org 25.04.2016
Subjects
Cancer
Collinearity
Computer simulation
Data analysis
Failure times
Regression analysis
Stability
Stability analysis
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Summary:The instability in the selection of models is a major concern with data sets containing a large number of covariates. We focus on stability selection which is used as a technique to improve variable selection performance for a range of selection methods, based on aggregating the results of applying a selection procedure to sub-samples of the data where the observations are subject to right censoring. The accelerated failure time (AFT) models have proved useful in many contexts including the heavy censoring (as for example in cancer survival) and the high dimensionality (as for example in micro-array data). We implement the stability selection approach using three variable selection techniques--Lasso, ridge regression, and elastic net applied to censored data using AFT models. We compare the performances of these regularized techniques with and without stability selection approaches with simulation studies and a breast cancer data analysis. The results suggest that stability selection gives always stable scenario about the selection of variables and that as the dimension of data increases the performance of methods with stability selection also improves compared to methods without stability selection irrespective of the collinearity between the covariates.
ISSN:2331-8422