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Combettes, P.L.* ; Müller, C.L.

Regression models for compositional data: General log-contrast formulations, proximal optimization, and microbiome data applications.

Stat. Biosci. 13, 217–242 (2021)
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Compositional data sets are ubiquitous in science, including geology, ecology, and microbiology. In microbiome research, compositional data primarily arise from high-throughput sequence-based profiling experiments. These data comprise microbial compositions in their natural habitat and are often paired with covariate measurements that characterize physicochemical habitat properties or the physiology of the host. Inferring parsimonious statistical associations between microbial compositions and habitat- or host-specific covariate data is an important step in exploratory data analysis. A standard statistical model linking compositional covariates to continuous outcomes is the linear log-contrast model. This model describes the response as a linear combination of log-ratios of the original compositions and has been extended to the high-dimensional setting via regularization. In this contribution, we propose a general convex optimization model for linear log-contrast regression which includes many previous proposals as special cases. We introduce a proximal algorithm that solves the resulting constrained optimization problem exactly with rigorous convergence guarantees. We illustrate the versatility of our approach by investigating the performance of several model instances on soil and gut microbiome data analysis tasks.
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Publikationstyp Artikel: Journalartikel
Dokumenttyp Wissenschaftlicher Artikel
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Schlagwörter Compositional Data ; Convex Optimization ; Log-contrast Model ; Microbiome ; Perspective Function ; Proximal Algorithm
ISSN (print) / ISBN 1867-1764
e-ISSN 1867-1772
Zeitschrift Statistics in Biosciences
Quellenangaben Band: 13, Heft: , Seiten: 217–242 Artikelnummer: , Supplement: ,
Verlagsort New York
Nichtpatentliteratur Publikationen
Begutachtungsstatus Peer reviewed
Institut(e) Institute of Computational Biology (ICB)