SwitchBox: An R package for k-Top Scoring Pairs classifier development

Bahman Afsari, Elana J. Fertig, Donald Geman, Luigi Marchionni

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Abstract

k-Top Scoring Pairs (kTSP) is a classification method for prediction from high-throughput data based on a set of the paired measurements. Each of the two possible orderings of a pair of measurements (e.g. a reversal in the expression of two genes) is associated with one of two classes. The kTSP prediction rule is the aggregation of voting among such individual two-feature decision rules based on order switching. kTSP, like its predecessor, Top Scoring Pair (TSP), is a parameter-free classifier relying only on ranking of a small subset of features, rendering it robust to noise and potentially easy to interpret in biological terms. In contrast to TSP, kTSP has comparable accuracy to standard genomics classification techniques, including Support Vector Machines and Prediction Analysis for Microarrays. Here, we describe 'switchBox', an R package for kTSP-based prediction.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)273-274
Number of pages2
JournalBioinformatics
Volume31
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 15 2015

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Statistics and Probability
  • Biochemistry
  • Molecular Biology
  • Computer Science Applications
  • Computational Theory and Mathematics
  • Computational Mathematics

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