Chunk #28 — RESULTS AND DISCUSSION — Prostate cancer gene expression data

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Classification and selection of biomarkers in genomic data using LASSO.

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We first performed an estimation of the error rate using fivefold cross-validation. This generally gave an error rate between 15–20% for various choices of λ, suggesting that the classifier is not sensitive to the choice of the smoothing parameter.