Supervised convex clustering

dc.citation.firstpage3846en_US
dc.citation.issueNumber4en_US
dc.citation.journalTitleBiometricsen_US
dc.citation.lastpage3858en_US
dc.citation.volumeNumber79en_US
dc.contributor.authorWang, Minjieen_US
dc.contributor.authorYao, Tianyien_US
dc.contributor.authorAllen, Genevera I.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2024-05-08T18:56:12Zen_US
dc.date.available2024-05-08T18:56:12Zen_US
dc.date.issued2023en_US
dc.description.abstractClustering has long been a popular unsupervised learning approach to identify groups of similar objects and discover patterns from unlabeled data in many applications. Yet, coming up with meaningful interpretations of the estimated clusters has often been challenging precisely due to their unsupervised nature. Meanwhile, in many real-world scenarios, there are some noisy supervising auxiliary variables, for instance, subjective diagnostic opinions, that are related to the observed heterogeneity of the unlabeled data. By leveraging information from both supervising auxiliary variables and unlabeled data, we seek to uncover more scientifically interpretable group structures that may be hidden by completely unsupervised analyses. In this work, we propose and develop a new statistical pattern discovery method named supervised convex clustering (SCC) that borrows strength from both information sources and guides towards finding more interpretable patterns via a joint convex fusion penalty. We develop several extensions of SCC to integrate different types of supervising auxiliary variables, to adjust for additional covariates, and to find biclusters. We demonstrate the practical advantages of SCC through simulations and a case study on Alzheimer's disease genomics. Specifically, we discover new candidate genes as well as new subtypes of Alzheimer's disease that can potentially lead to better understanding of the underlying genetic mechanisms responsible for the observed heterogeneity of cognitive decline in older adults.en_US
dc.identifier.citationWang, M., Yao, T., & Allen, G. I. (2023). Supervised Convex Clustering. Biometrics, 79(4), 3846–3858. https://doi.org/10.1111/biom.13860en_US
dc.identifier.digitalbiometrics_79_4_3846en_US
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1111/biom.13860en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1911/115689en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherWileyen_US
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dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en_US
dc.titleSupervised convex clusteringen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
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