Variable selection for sparse Dirichlet-multinomial regression with an application to microbiome data analysis

Annals of Applied Statistics

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 418-442

  Chen, Jun ^a   Li, Hongzhe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Coordinate descent; Counts data; Overdispersion; Regularized likelihood; Sparse group penalty

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876058250     PISSN: 19326157     EISSN: 19417330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/12-AOAS592     Document Type: Article

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