Li: High-dimensional feature selection using hierarchical Bayesian logistic regression with heavy-tailed priors | Rao: Best predictive estimation for linear mixed models with applications to small area estimation
Longhai Li and Sunil Rao · Apr 13, 2012
Date: 2012-04-13 Time: 14:00-16:30 Location: MAASS 217 Abstract: Li: The problem of selecting the most useful features from a great many (eg, thousands) of candidates arises in many areas of modern sciences. An interesting problem from genomic research is that, from thousands of genes that are active (expressed) in certain tissue cells, we want to find the genes that can be used to separate tissues of different classes (eg. cancer and normal).