Merging versus Ensembling in Multi-Study Prediction: Theoretical Insight from Random Effects

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/1905.07382v4
• Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2024 18:47:50 GMT
• Title: Merging versus Ensembling in Multi-Study Prediction: Theoretical Insight from Random Effects
• Authors: Zoe Guan, Giovanni Parmigiani, Prasad Patil,
• Abstract summary: We compare two multi-study prediction approaches in the presence of potential heterogeneity in predictor-outcome relationships across datasets. For ridge regression, we show analytically and confirm via simulation that merging yields lower prediction error than ensembling. We provide analytic expressions for the transition point in various scenarios, study properties, and illustrate how transition point theory can be used for deciding studies should be combined with application from metagenomics.
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• Abstract: A critical decision point when training predictors using multiple studies is whether studies should be combined or treated separately. We compare two multi-study prediction approaches in the presence of potential heterogeneity in predictor-outcome relationships across datasets: 1) merging all of the datasets and training a single learner, and 2) multi-study ensembling, which involves training a separate learner on each dataset and combining the predictions resulting from each learner. For ridge regression, we show analytically and confirm via simulation that merging yields lower prediction error than ensembling when the predictor-outcome relationships are relatively homogeneous across studies. However, as cross-study heterogeneity increases, there exists a transition point beyond which ensembling outperforms merging. We provide analytic expressions for the transition point in various scenarios, study asymptotic properties, and illustrate how transition point theory can be used for deciding when studies should be combined with an application from metagenomics.

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