Notations

Notations Explanation
\(n\) or \(N\) number of observations
\(D\) number of variables
\(d\) index of the variables in \([1, \dots, D]\)
\(K\) number of classes
\(k\) index of the classes in \([1, \dots, K]\)
\(\mathcal{T}\) training set space
\(\mathcal{X}\) space of variables
\(\mathrm{X}\) random variable from \(\mathcal{X}\)
\(x\) realization of \(\mathrm{X}\)
\(\mathbf{X}\) matrix of variables in \(\mathbb{R}^{n \times D}\)
\(\boldsymbol{x}_i\) column vector of the \(i^{th}\) observation
\(x_{id}\) scalar of the \(i^{th}\) observation and the \(d^{th}\) variable of \(\mathbf{X}\)
\(\mathcal{Y}\) space of response
\(\mathrm{Y}\) random variable from \(\mathcal{Y}\)
\(y\) realization of \(\mathrm{Y}\)
\(\mathbf{y}\) observed response vector in \(\mathbb{R}^n\)
\(y_i\) scalar of the \(i^{th}\) observation of \(\mathbf{y}\)
\(\eta_i\) linear predictor of \(i^{th}\) observation
\(f : X \rightarrow Y\) some fixed but unknown function of \(\mathbf{X}\)
\(s(x)\) smooth monotonic function of \(x\)
\(||.||_1\) \(\ell_1\) norm
\(||.||_2^2\) \(\ell_2\) squared norm
\(\xi\) knot
\(K_d\) number of knots of variable \(d\)
\(\mathrm{B}(x)\) B-spline basis functions of \(x\)
\(m\) polynomial order
\(\mathbf{B}\) B-spline basis function matrix in \(\mathbb{R}^{n \times (k + m +1)}\)
\(N(x)\) natural spline basis functions of \(x\)
\(\mathbf{N}\) natural splines basis function matrix in \(\mathbb{R}^{n \times n}\)
\(\mathbf{W}\) penalty matrix of natural splines in \(\mathbb{R}^{n \times n}\)
\(\Omega\) training set to classify
\(S\) number of levels in the hierarchical tree of \(\Omega\)
\(s\) index of the levels of the hierarchy in \([1, \dots, S]\)
\(h_s\) height of the \(s^{th}\) level of the hierarchy
\(\mathcal{G}\) group partition of all \(S\) levels of the hierarchy
\(G_s\) number of groups at \(s^{th}\) level of the hierarchy
\(\hat{G}_s^*\) optimal number of groups
\(g\) index of number of groups in \([1, \dots, G_s]\)
\(\mathcal{G}^s\) a partition of \(\Omega\) at the \(s^{th}\) level
\(\mathcal{G}^s_g\) \(g^{th}\) group of variables at the \(s^{th}\) level
\(\rho_s\) weights attributed to group partition \(\mathcal{G}^s\)
\(\tilde{\mathbf{X}}^{(s)}\) matrix of supervariables at \(s^{th}\) level of the hierarchy
\(\tilde{\mathbf{X}}^{(s)}_{\mathcal{G}^s}\) matrix of supervariables for partition \(\mathcal{G}^s\)
\(\mathbf{X}_{\mathcal{G}}\) variables matrix of concatenated group partition
\(\mathbf{X}^s_{\mathcal{G}^s}\) variables matrix of group partition \(\mathcal{G}^s\)
\(\mathit{G}\) genomic view
\(\mathbf{G}\) matrix of genotype data
\(\mathbf{Z}\) matrix of additively coded SNPs
\(\mathit{M}\) metagenomic view
\(\mathbf{M}\) matrix of metagenomic data
\(\mathcal{M}\) group structure of metagenomic data
\(\boldsymbol{\Delta}_{\mathit{G}\mathit{M}}\) matrix of interaction terms between genome and metagenome data