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Targeted Local Support Vector Machine for Age-Dependent Classification

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  • Tianle Chen
  • Yuanjia Wang
  • Huaihou Chen
  • Karen Marder
  • Donglin Zeng

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We develop methods to accurately predict whether presymptomatic individuals are at risk of a disease based on their various marker profiles, which offers an opportunity for early intervention well before definitive clinical diagnosis. For many diseases, existing clinical literature may suggest the risk of disease varies with some markers of biological and etiological importance, for example, age. To identify effective prediction rules using nonparametric decision functions, standard statistical learning approaches treat markers with clear biological importance (e.g., age) and other markers without prior knowledge on disease etiology interchangeably as input variables. Therefore, these approaches may be inadequate in singling out and preserving the effects from the biologically important variables, especially in the presence of potential noise markers. Using age as an example of a salient marker to receive special care in the analysis, we propose a local smoothing large margin classifier implemented with support vector machine (SVM) to construct effective age-dependent classification rules. The method adaptively adjusts age effect and separately tunes age and other markers to achieve optimal performance. We derive the asymptotic risk bound of the local smoothing SVM and perform extensive simulation studies to compare with standard approaches. We apply the proposed method to two studies of premanifest Huntington's disease (HD) subjects and controls to construct age-sensitive predictive scores for the risk of HD and risk of receiving HD diagnosis during the study period. Supplementary materials for this article are available online.

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  • Tianle Chen & Yuanjia Wang & Huaihou Chen & Karen Marder & Donglin Zeng, 2014. "Targeted Local Support Vector Machine for Age-Dependent Classification," Journal of the American Statistical Association, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 109(507), pages 1174-1187, September.
  • Handle: RePEc:taf:jnlasa:v:109:y:2014:i:507:p:1174-1187
    DOI: 10.1080/01621459.2014.881743
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