Predictive and interpretable models via the stacked elastic net.

Journal: Bioinformatics (Oxford, England)
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Abstract

MOTIVATION: Machine learning in the biomedical sciences should ideally provide predictive and interpretable models. When predicting outcomes from clinical or molecular features, applied researchers often want to know which features have effects, whether these effects are positive or negative and how strong these effects are. Regression analysis includes this information in the coefficients but typically renders less predictive models than more advanced machine learning techniques.

Authors

  • Armin Rauschenberger
    Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB), University of Luxembourg, 4362 Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg.
  • Enrico Glaab
    Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB), University of Luxembourg, 4362 Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg.
  • Mark A van de Wiel
    Department of Epidemiology and Data Science, Amsterdam UMC, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands.