Abstract
We introduce a new variable selection procedure that repeatedly splits the data into two sets, one for estimation and one for validation, to obtain an empirically optimized threshold which is then used to screen for variables to include in the final model. Simulation results show that the proposed variable selection technique enjoys superior performance compared to candidate methods, being amongst those with the lowest inclusion of noisy predictors while having the highest power to detect the correct model and being una ffected by correlations among the predictors. We illustrate the methods by applying them to a cohort of patients undergoing hepatectomy at our institution.
Disciplines
Biostatistics | Statistical Methodology | Statistical Models
Suggested Citation
Capanu, Marinela; Begg, Colin B.; and Gonen, Mithat, "Optimized Variable Selection Via Repeated Data Splitting" (January 2017). Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Dept. of Epidemiology & Biostatistics Working Paper Series. Working Paper 34.
https://biostats.bepress.com/mskccbiostat/paper34