The broad objectives of this research are developments of regularization methods for high-dimensional data that arise commonly in biomedical studies, particularly studies in genomics, epigenetics, and brain imaging.
The specific aims i n this proposal are motivated by problems arising in studies of neurodegenerative disorders in an aging population including epigenetic and PiB PET studies for patients with Alzheimer's disease, PET studies of dementia in patients with Parkinson's disease, and the genome-wise association study for the age- related macular degeneration. They include: 1. Developing effective variable selection methods in high- dimensional regression models with grouped structures. We will consider the regularization with a novel convex penalty in multiple linear regression with high-dimensional grouped covariates, generalized linear models with high-dimensional grouped covariates, and multivariate linear regression with both high- dimensional grouped response variables and high-dimensional grouped covariates. Fast algorithms will be developed, theoretical properties such as oracle inequalities will be examined, and finite sample performance will be evaluated through extensive simulations. 2. Developing and evaluating regularization methods for disease diagnosis with functional data. We consider functional linear regression models and functional principal component analysis for imaging data to achieve sparse group effects. Both theoretical and numerical performance of the proposed methods will be examined. 3. Developing new multiple testing methodologies for dependent tests. We propose to use the hidden Markov models, either non-homogeneous or group homogeneous, to characterize the dependence structure among the multiple tests, and develop procedures with enhanced power and correctly controlled false discovery rate. We will examine the asymptotic optimality and numerical performance of the proposed methods. 4. Developing user-friendly computing programs systematically for the proposed statistical methodologies and disseminating them to health sciences researchers.

Public Health Relevance

The application is intended to solve emerging statistical issues in high-dimensional data analysis, which arise commonly in biomedical and public health studies. The proposed methods will be particularly useful in epigenetic, genomic, PET imaging studies on neurodegenerative disorders including Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, and age-related macular degeneration.

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
National Institute on Aging (NIA)
Type
Research Project (R01)
Project #
5R01AG036802-03
Application #
8234921
Study Section
Biostatistical Methods and Research Design Study Section (BMRD)
Program Officer
Hsiao, John
Project Start
2010-04-15
Project End
2014-03-31
Budget Start
2012-04-01
Budget End
2013-03-31
Support Year
3
Fiscal Year
2012
Total Cost
$270,556
Indirect Cost
$93,215
Name
University of Michigan Ann Arbor
Department
Biostatistics & Other Math Sci
Type
Schools of Public Health
DUNS #
073133571
City
Ann Arbor
State
MI
Country
United States
Zip Code
48109
Wang, Xuejing; Nan, Bin; Zhu, Ji et al. (2017) Classification of ADNI PET Images via Regularized 3D Functional Data Analysis. Biostat Epidemiol 1:3-19
Das, Ritabrata; Banerjee, Moulinath; Nan, Bin et al. (2016) Fast estimation of regression parameters in a broken-stick model for longitudinal data. J Am Stat Assoc 111:1132-1143
Foster, Jared C; Nan, Bin; Shen, Lei et al. (2016) Permutation Testing for Treatment-Covariate Interactions and Subgroup Identification. Stat Biosci 8:77-98
Foster, Jared C; Taylor, Jeremy M G; Kaciroti, Niko et al. (2015) Simple subgroup approximations to optimal treatment regimes from randomized clinical trial data. Biostatistics 16:368-82
Ding, Ying; Nan, Bin (2015) ESTIMATING MEAN SURVIVAL TIME: WHEN IS IT POSSIBLE? Scand Stat Theory Appl 42:397-413
Shu, Hai; Nan, Bin; Koeppe, Robert (2015) Multiple testing for neuroimaging via hidden Markov random field. Biometrics 71:741-50
Li, Yanming; Nan, Bin; Zhu, Ji (2015) Multivariate sparse group lasso for the multivariate multiple linear regression with an arbitrary group structure. Biometrics 71:354-63
Hu, Tianle; Lin, Xihong; Nan, Bin (2014) Cross-ratio estimation for bivariate failure times with left truncation. Lifetime Data Anal 20:23-37
Wang, Xuejing; Nan, Bin; Zhu, Ji et al. (2014) REGULARIZED 3D FUNCTIONAL REGRESSION FOR BRAIN IMAGE DATA VIA HAAR WAVELETS. Ann Appl Stat 8:1045-1064
Kong, Shengchun; Nan, Bin (2014) Non-Asymptotic Oracle Inequalities for the High-Dimensional Cox Regression via Lasso. Stat Sin 24:25-42

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