hct_method_MC: Estimate PCC of HCT Classifiers via implementation of Monte...
In HDDesign: Sample Size Calculation for High Dimensional Classification Study

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Determine the probability of correct classification (PCC) for studies employing high dimensional features for classification. It is assumed that a Higher Criticism Threshold (HCT) is used to choose the p-value threshold for feature selection and that features meeting the threshold are important for classification. In addition to the original HCT procedure by Donoho and Jin (2009), two procedures to choose p-value threshold have been implemented (See hct_empirical and hct_beta). This function is similar to hct_method but this does not rely on the normal CDF to approximate the PCC. Instead training and testing datasets are generated at each iteration of the algorithm.

1 2	hct_method_MC(mu0, p, m, n, hct, alpha0, nrep, p1=0.5, ss=F, ntest, sampling.p)

`mu0`	The effect size of the important features.
`p`	The number of the features in total.
`m`	The number of the important features.
`n`	The total sample size for the two groups.
`hct`	The HCT procedure employed to choose the p-value threshold for feature selection. There are two valid choices (case sensitive): 1) hct_empirical, the HCT procedure originally proposed by Donoho and Jin (2009); 2) hct_beta, an alternative HCT procedure which makes use of the beta distribution of the p-values under the null;
`alpha0`	The proportion of the smallest p-values we will consider in the HCT algorithm.
`nrep`	The number of simulation replicates employed to compute the expected PCC and/or sensitivity and specificity.
`p1`	The prevalence of the group 1 in the population, default to 0.5.
`ss`	Boolean variable, default to FALSE. The TRUE value instruct the program to compute the sensitivity and the specificity of the classifier.
`ntest`	Sample size for the test dataset.
`sampling.p`	The assumed proportion of group 1 samples in the training data; default of 0.5 assumes groups are equally represented regardless of p1.

If ss=FALSE, the function returns the expected PCC. If ss=TRUE, the function returns a vector containing the expected PCC, sensitivity and specificity.

Meihua Wu <meihuawu@umich.edu> Brisa N. Sanchez <brisa@umich.edu> Peter X.K. Song <pxsong@umich.edu> Raymond Luu <raluu@umich.edu> Wen Wang <wangwen@umich.edu>

Donoho, D., and Jin J. (2009). "Feature Selection by Higher Criticism Thresholding Achieves the Optimal Phase Diagram." Philosophical Transactions. Series A, Mathematical, Physical, and Engineering Sciences 367 (1906) (November 13): 4449-4470.

Sanchez, B.N., Wu, M., Song, P.X.K., and Wang W. (2016). "Study design in high-dimensional classification analysis." Biostatistics, in press.

set.seed(1)
hct_method_MC(mu0=0.4,p=500,m=10,n=80,hct=hct_beta,alpha0=0.5,nrep=10,p1=0.5,
ss=TRUE,ntest=100,sampling.p=0.5)
#return: 0.801 0.806 0.796