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Improved mean estimation and its application to diagonal discriminant analysis.

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  • 1Department of Mathematics, Hong Kong Baptist University, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong. tongt@hkbu.edu.hk

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Area of Science:

  • Statistics
  • Machine Learning
  • Bioinformatics

Background:

  • High-dimensional data, common in microarrays, challenges traditional statistical methods.
  • Class prediction with high-dimension, low-sample size data suffers from unreliable sample mean estimates.
  • Shrinkage regularization is a desired approach for more accurate parameter estimation.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate shrinkage estimators for mean value estimation under quadratic loss.
  • To propose an optimal shrinkage parameter for fixed sample size and large dimension scenarios.
  • To develop a shrinkage-based diagonal discriminant rule for improved class prediction.

Main Methods:

  • Investigated shrinkage estimators for mean value under quadratic loss.
  • Proposed an optimal shrinkage parameter for high-dimensional, low-sample size data.
  • Constructed a shrinkage-based diagonal discriminant rule by replacing sample means with shrinkage means.

Main Results:

  • The proposed shrinkage-based rule demonstrates superior performance compared to its original competitor.
  • Outperformance was observed across a wide range of simulation settings.
  • Real data analysis confirmed the effectiveness of the shrinkage-based approach.

Conclusions:

  • Shrinkage estimators offer a robust solution for parameter estimation in high-dimensional, low-sample size settings.
  • The developed shrinkage-based discriminant rule enhances class prediction accuracy.
  • This method provides a valuable advancement for analyzing complex biological datasets.