Links to suggested background documents/materials for the Wed, Jun 14 Lecture:

 

Dr. Troy Bremmer

“Feature Selection in Pharmacogenetics

Application to Calcium Channel Blockers in Hypertension”

 

 

Recommended background reading:

Global hypertension rise threatens CVD epidemic

 

For a basic explanation of Pharmamacognetics:

The Genetic Variation and Pharmacogenetic Discovery  sections and their respective subsections

 

Statistical Pattern Recognition: A Review

Sections 1.1, 1.3, 2, 4.1, 4.2 in particular

 

A “deep” background paper on KPLS:

An Optimization Perspective on Kernel Partial Least Squares Regression