Penalized discriminant methods for the classification of tumors from gene expression data



The R code for implementing the methods in the paper can be downloaded here . Note in the documentation that the software requires both the mda and e1071 libraries, which can be downloaded from here.

A script that demonstrates the use of the program is available by clicking here . It requires downloading the Hedenfalk et al. (NEJM, 2001) dataset, which can be found here . The gene list for the prostate cancer data can be downloaded here.

UM SPORE talk slides here


Last modified: Mon January 13 6:00:16 EST 2003

Debashis Ghosh   ghoshd@sph.umich.edu
UM Biostatistics