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Selecting Multiple Biomarker Subsets with Similarly Effective Binary Classification Performances
Published on: October 11, 2018
Nonparametric empirical Bayes biomarker imputation and estimation
Alton Barbehenn1,2, Sihai Dave Zhao2
1Department of Medicine, Division of HIV, Infectious Diseases & Global Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, California, USA.
Abstract:
Biomarkers are often measured in bulk to diagnose patients, monitor patient conditions, and research novel drug pathways. The measurement of these biomarkers often suffers from detection limits that result in missing and untrustworthy measurements. Frequently, missing biomarkers are imputed so that down-stream analysis can be conducted with modern statistical methods that cannot normally handle data subject to informative censoring. This work develops an empirical Bayes -modeling method for imputing and denoising biomarker measurements. We establish superior estimation properties compared to popular methods in simulations and with real data, providing the useful biomarker measurement estimations for down-stream analysis.
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