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Simon Aeschbacher¹, Mark A Beaumont, Andreas Futschik

¹Institute of Evolutionary Biology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3JT, United Kingdom. simon.aeschbacher@univie.ac.at

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Area of Science:

Population Genetics
Computational Biology
Machine Learning

Background:

Choosing summary statistics is critical for approximate Bayesian computation (ABC).
Existing methods face a trade-off between information loss and dimensionality reduction.
Boosting offers a novel approach to optimize this selection process.

Purpose of the Study:

To propose and evaluate a boosting-based method for selecting summary statistics in ABC.
To compare boosting with partial least-squares regression for this task.
To introduce a local approach for summary statistic selection to mitigate information loss.

Main Methods:

Utilized boosting techniques (including L2-loss) for summary statistic selection.
Compared boosting with partial least-squares regression.
Applied methods to a demographic model for Alpine ibex (Capra ibex) reintroduction.
Assessed posterior distribution properties via simulation.

Main Results:

ABC with locally chosen summary statistics via L2-loss boosting demonstrated superior performance.
Estimated the scaled ancestral mutation rate (θ(anc)) for ibex as approximately 1.288.
Estimated the proportion of males accessing matings (ω) as approximately 0.21.

Conclusions:

Boosting provides an effective strategy for selecting summary statistics in ABC.
Local selection of statistics enhances accuracy, particularly in demographic modeling.
The method yields biologically relevant estimates for Alpine ibex population parameters.