VSOLassoBag: One-step main function of VSOLassoBag framework

In VSOLassoBag: Variable Selection Oriented LASSO Bagging Algorithm

One-step main function of VSOLassoBag framework

Description

An one-step function that can be easily utilized for selecting important variables from multiple models inherited from R package glmnet. Several methods (Parametric Statistical Test, Curve Elbow Point Detection and Permutation Test) are provided for the cut-off point decision of the importance measure (i.e. observed selection frequency) of variables.

Usage

VSOLassoBag(
  ExpressionData,
  outcomevariable,
  observed.fre = NULL,
  bootN = 1000,
  boot.rep = TRUE,
  sample.size = 1,
  a.family = c("gaussian", "binomial", "poisson", "multinomial", "cox", "mgaussian"),
  additional.covariable = NULL,
  bagFreq.sigMethod = "CEP",
  kneedle.S = 10,
  auto.loose = TRUE,
  loosing.factor = 0.5,
  min.S = 0.1,
  use.gpd = FALSE,
  fit.pareto = "gd",
  imputeN = 1000,
  imputeN.max = 2000,
  permut.increase = 100,
  parallel = FALSE,
  n.cores = 1,
  nfolds = 4,
  lambda.type = "lambda.1se",
  plot.freq = "part",
  plot.out = FALSE,
  do.plot = TRUE,
  output.dir = NA,
  filter.method = "auto",
  inbag.filter = TRUE,
  filter.thres.method = "fdr",
  filter.thres.P = 0.05,
  filter.rank.cutoff = 0.05,
  filter.min.variables = -Inf,
  filter.max.variables = Inf,
  filter.result.report = TRUE,
  filter.report.all.variables = TRUE,
  post.regression = FALSE,
  post.LASSO = FALSE,
  pvalue.cutoff = 0.05,
  used.elbow.point = "middle"
)

Arguments

ExpressionData	ExpressionData is an object constructed by SummarizedExperiment. It contains the independent variables matrix and outcome variables matrix.
outcomevariable	Variables which must be the column name of the outcome variables matrix were used to construct models.
observed.fre	dataframe with columns 'variable' and 'Frequency', which can be obtained from existed VSOLassoBag results for re-analysis. A warning will be issued if the variables in 'observed.fre' not found in 'mat', and these variables will be excluded.
bootN	the size of re-sampled samples for bagging, default 1000; smaller consumes less processing time but may not get robust results.
boot.rep	whether sampling with return or not in the bagging procedure
sample.size	The sample size in the bagging space, default is 1 (same sample size as the input sample size).
a.family	a character determine the data type of out.mat, the same used in glmnet.
additional.covariable	provide additional covariable(s) to build the cox model, only valid in Cox method ('a.family' == "cox"); a data.frame with same rows as 'mat'
bagFreq.sigMethod	a character to determine the cut-off point decision method for the importance measure (i.e. the observed selection frequency). Supported methods are "Parametric Statistical Test" (abbr. "PST"), "Curve Elbow Point Detection" ("CEP") and "Permutation Test" ("PERT"). The default and preferable method is "CEP". The method "PERT" is not recommended due to consuming time and memmory requirement.
kneedle.S	numeric, an important parameter that determines how aggressive the elbow points on the curve to be called, smaller means more aggressive and may find more elbow points. Default 'kneedle.S'=10 seems fine, but feel free to try other values. The selection of 'kneedle.S' should be based on the shape of observed frequency curve. It is suggested to use larger S first.
auto.loose	if TRUE, will reduce 'kneedle.S' in case no elbow point is found with the set 'kneedle.S'; only valid when 'bagFreq.sigMethod' is "Curve Elbow Point Detection" ("CEP").
loosing.factor	a numeric value range in (0,1), which 'kneedle.S' is multiplied by to reduce itself; only valid when 'auto.loose' set to TRUE.
min.S	a numeric value determines the minimal value that 'kneedle.S' will be loosed to; only valid when 'auto.loose' set to TRUE.
use.gpd	whether to fit Generalized Pareto Distribution to the permutation results to accelerate the process. Only valid when 'bagFreq.sigMethod' is "Permutation Test" ("PERT").
fit.pareto	the method of fitting Generalized Pareto Distribution, default choice is "gd", for gradient descend, and alternative as "mle", for Maximum Likelihood Estimation (only valid in "PERT" mode).
imputeN	the initial permutation times (only valid in "PERT" mode).
imputeN.max	the max permutation times. Regardless of whether p-value has meet the requirement (only valid in "PERT" mode).
permut.increase	if the initial imputeN times of permutation doesn't meet the requirement, then we add ‘permut.increase times of permutation to get more random/permutation values (only valid in "PERT" mode).
parallel	whether the script run in parallel mode; you also need to set n.cores to determine how much CPU resource to use.
n.cores	how many threads/process to be assigned for this function; more threads used results in more resource of CPU and memory used.
nfolds	integer > 2, how many folds to be created for n-folds cross-validation LASSO in cv.glmnet.
lambda.type	character, which model should be used to obtain the variables selected in one bagging. Default is "lambda.1se" for less variables selected and lower probability being over-fitting. See the help of 'cv.glmnet' for more details.
plot.freq	whether to show all the non-zero frequency in the final barplot or not. If "full", all the variables(including zero frequency) will be plotted. If "part", all the non-zero variables will be plotted. If "not", will not print the plot.
plot.out	the file's name of the frequency plot. If set to FALSE, no plot will be output. If you run this function in Linux command line, you don't have to set this param for the plot.freq will output your plot to your current working directory with name "Rplot.pdf".Default to FALSE.
do.plot	if TRUE generate result plots.
output.dir	the path to save result files generated by VSOLassoBag (if not existed, will be created). Default is NA, will save in the same space as the current working dir.
filter.method	the filter method applied to input matrix; default is 'auto', automatically select the filter method according to the data type of 'out.mat'. Specific supported methods are "pearson", "spearman", "kendall" from cor.test method, and "cox" from coxph method, and "none" (no filter applied).
inbag.filter	if TRUE, apply filters to the re-sampled bagging samples rather than the original samples; default is TRUE.
filter.thres.method	the method determines the threshold of importance in filters. Supported methods are "fdr" and "rank".
filter.thres.P	if 'filter.thres.method' is "fdr", use 'filter.thres.P' as the (adjusted) cut-off p-value. Default is 0.05.
filter.rank.cutoff	if 'filter.thres.method' is "rank", use 'filter.rank.cutoff' as the cut-off rank. Default is 0.05.
filter.min.variables	minimum important variables selected by filters. Useful when building a multi-variable cox model since cox model can only be built on limited variables. Default is -Inf (not applied).
filter.max.variables	maximum important variables selected by filters. Useful when building a multi-variable cox model since cox model can only be built on limited variables. Default is Inf (not applied).
filter.result.report	if TRUE generate filter reports for filter results, only vaild when 'inbag.filter' set to FALSE (i.e. only valid in out-bag filters mode).
filter.report.all.variables	if TRUE report all variables in the filter report, only valid when 'filter.result.report' set to TRUE.
post.regression	build a regression model based on the variables selected by VSOLassoBag process. Default is FALSE.
post.LASSO	build a LASSO regression model based on the variables selected by VSOLassoBag process, only vaild when 'post.regression' set to TRUE.
pvalue.cutoff	determine the cut-off p-value for what variables were selected by VSOLassoBag, only vaild when 'post.regression' is TRUE and 'bagFreq.sigMethod' set to "Parametric Statistical Test" or "Permutation Test".
used.elbow.point	determine which elbow point to use if multiple elbow points were detected for what variables were selected by VSOLassoBag. Supported methods are "first", "middle" and "last". Default is "middle", use the middle one among all detected elbow points. Only vaild when 'post.regression' is TRUE and 'bagFreq.sigMethod' set to "Curve Elbow Point Detection".

Value

A list with (1) the result dataframe, "results", contains "variable" with selection frequency >=1 and their "Frequency", the "P.value" and the adjusted p value "P.adjust" of each variable (if set 'bagFreq.sigMethod' = "PST" or "PERT"), or the elbow point indicators "elbow.point", while elbow point(s) will be marked with "*" (if set 'bagFreq.sigMethod' = "CEP"). This is the main result VSOLassoBag obtained. (2) other utility results, including permutation results, "permutations", the regression model built on VSOLassoBag results, "model".

See Also

glmnet and cv.glmnet in R package glmnet.

Examples

data("ExpressionData")
set.seed(19084)

# binomial
VSOLassoBag(ExpressionData, "label", bootN=2, a.family="binomial",
bagFreq.sigMethod="PST", do.plot = FALSE, plot.freq = "not")


# gaussian
VSOLassoBag(ExpressionData, "y", bootN=2, a.family="gaussian",
bagFreq.sigMethod="PST", do.plot = FALSE, plot.freq = "not")
VSOLassoBag(ExpressionData, "y", bootN=2, a.family="gaussian",
bagFreq.sigMethod="CEP", do.plot = FALSE, plot.freq = "not")


# cox
VSOLassoBag(ExpressionData, c("time","status"), bootN=2,
a.family="cox", bagFreq.sigMethod="PST", do.plot = FALSE,
plot.freq = "not")
VSOLassoBag(ExpressionData, c("time","status"), bootN=2, a.family="cox",
bagFreq.sigMethod="CEP", do.plot = FALSE, plot.freq = "not")



# mgaussian
VSOLassoBag(ExpressionData, c("multi.label.D_1","multi.label.D_2"), bootN=2,
a.family="mgaussian", bagFreq.sigMethod="PST", do.plot = FALSE,
plot.freq = "not")
VSOLassoBag(ExpressionData, c("multi.label.D_1","multi.label.D_2"), bootN=2,
a.family="mgaussian", bagFreq.sigMethod="CEP", do.plot = FALSE,
plot.freq = "not")

# poisson
VSOLassoBag(ExpressionData, "pois", bootN=10, a.family="poisson",
bagFreq.sigMethod="PST", do.plot = FALSE, plot.freq = "not")
VSOLassoBag(ExpressionData, "pois", bootN=2, a.family="poisson",
bagFreq.sigMethod="CEP", do.plot = FALSE, plot.freq = "not")

# multi-thread processing is supported if run on a multi-thread,
# forking-supported platform (detailed see R package 'parallel'),
# which can significantly accelerate the process
# you can achieve this by flag 'parallel' to TRUE and set 'n.cores' to an
# integer larger than 1, depending on the available threads
# multi-thread processing using 2 threads
VSOLassoBag(ExpressionData, "y", bootN=1000, a.family="binomial",
bagFreq.sigMethod="PST", do.plot = FALSE, plot.freq = "not",
parallel=TRUE,n.cores=1)

VSOLassoBag documentation built on March 31, 2023, 10:25 p.m.