Logistic Regression Ensemble (LORENS) Applied to Drug Discovery

Logistic regression is one of the commonly used classification methods. It has some advantages, specifically related to hypothesis testing and its objective function. However, it also has some disadvantages in the case of high-dimensional data, such as multicolinearity, over-fitting, and a high computational burden. Ensemble-based classification methods have been proposed to overcome these problems. The logistic regression ensemble (LORENS) method is expected to improve the classification performance of basic logistic regression. In this paper, we apply it to the case of drug discovery with the objective of obtaining candidate compounds to protect the normal non-cancerous cells, which is considered to be a problem with a data-set of high dimensionality. The experimental results show that it performs well, with an accuracy of 69.41% and Area Under Curve (AUC) of 0.7306.