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Subtyping via Consensus Factor Analysis (SCFA) can efficiently remove noisy signals from consistent molecular patterns in multi-omics data. SCFA first uses an autoencoder to select only important features and then repeatedly performs factor analysis to represent the data with different numbers of factors. Using these representations, it can reliably identify cancer subtypes and accurately predict risk scores of patients.

RLassoCox is a package that implements the RLasso-Cox model proposed by Wei Liu. The RLasso-Cox model integrates gene interaction information into the Lasso-Cox model for accurate survival prediction and survival biomarker discovery. It is based on the hypothesis that topologically important genes in the gene interaction network tend to have stable expression changes. The RLasso-Cox model uses random walk to evaluate the topological weight of genes, and then highlights topologically important genes to improve the generalization ability of the Lasso-Cox model. The RLasso-Cox model has the advantage of identifying small gene sets with high prognostic performance on independent datasets, which may play an important role in identifying robust survival biomarkers for various cancer types.

The package obtains parameter estimation, i.e., maximum likelihood estimators (MLE), via the Expectation-Maximization (EM) algorithm for the Finite Mixture of Regression (FMR) models with Normal distribution, and MLE for the Finite Mixture of Accelerated Failure Time Regression (FMAFTR) subject to right censoring with Log-Normal and Weibull distributions via the EM algorithm and the Newton-Raphson algorithm (for Weibull distribution). More importantly, the package obtains the maximum penalized likelihood (MPLE) for both FMR and FMAFTR models (collectively called FMRs). A component-wise tuning parameter selection based on a component-wise BIC is implemented in the package. Furthermore, this package provides Ridge Regression and Elastic Net.