A novel approach to the clustering of microarray data via nonparametric density estimation
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Riccardo De Bin1, Davide Risso
1Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Padova, Padova, Italy.
Background:
Cluster analysis is a crucial tool in several biological and medical studies dealing with microarray data. Such studies pose challenging statistical problems due to dimensionality issues, since the number of variables can be much higher than the number of observations.
Results:
Here, we present a general framework to deal with the clustering of microarray data, based on a three-step procedure: (i) gene filtering; (ii) dimensionality reduction; (iii) clustering of observations in the reduced space. Via a nonparametric model-based clustering approach we obtain promising results both in simulated and real data.
Conclusions:
The proposed algorithm is a simple and effective tool for the clustering of microarray data, in an unsupervised setting.
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