Covariate-Adjusted Inference for Differential Analysis of High-Dimensional Networks

Aaron Hudson () and Ali Shojaie
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Aaron Hudson: University of Washington
Ali Shojaie: University of Washington

Sankhya A: The Indian Journal of Statistics, 2022, vol. 84, issue 1, No 11, 345-388

Abstract: Abstract Differences between biological networks corresponding to disease conditions can help delineate the underlying disease mechanisms. Existing methods for differential network analysis do not account for dependence of networks on covariates. As a result, these approaches may detect spurious differential connections induced by the effect of the covariates on both the disease condition and the network. To address this issue, we propose a general covariate-adjusted test for differential network analysis. Our method assesses differential network connectivity by testing the null hypothesis that the network is the same for individuals who have identical covariates and only differ in disease status. We show empirically in a simulation study that the covariate-adjusted test exhibits improved type-I error control compared with naïve hypothesis testing procedures that do not account for covariates. We additionally show that there are settings in which our proposed methodology provides improved power to detect differential connections. We illustrate our method by applying it to detect differences in breast cancer gene co-expression networks by subtype.

Keywords: Differential network; Confounding; High-dimensional; Penalized likelihood; De-biased LASSO; Exponential family; 62H22 (primary); 62J07 (secondary) (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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