An integration of partial least squares and sparsified multiple correspondence analysis applied to genetic data

authors

• Beaton Derek
• Bernard Anne
• Abdi Hervé
• Saporta Gilbert

keywords

• Behavioral data
• Genetics
• Multiple correspondence analysis
• Group sparsification
• Sparsification

abstract

Genetic data are now common in many domains. Typically, these genetic studies try to associate genetics with single phenotypes, behaviors, or diagnostic criteria. However, many of these studies include multiple behavioral variables and very large genetic data sets. The analysis of these data sets faces two particular challenges: 1) How to integrate many behavioral and genetic variables when 2) only a small number of variables are interpretable. To address these issues, we propose the integration of partial least squares and a sparsified approach to multiple correspondence analysis.

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