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BeSS: An R Package for Best Subset Selection in Linear, Logistic and CoxPH Models

Computation 2020-03-10 v2

Abstract

We introduce a new R package, BeSS, for solving the best subset selection problem in linear, logistic and Cox's proportional hazard (CoxPH) models. It utilizes a highly efficient active set algorithm based on primal and dual variables, and supports sequential and golden search strategies for best subset selection. We provide a C++ implementation of the algorithm using Rcpp interface. We demonstrate through numerical experiments based on enormous simulation and real datasets that the new BeSS package has competitive performance compared to other R packages for best subset selection purpose.

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@article{arxiv.1709.06254,
  title  = {BeSS: An R Package for Best Subset Selection in Linear, Logistic and CoxPH Models},
  author = {Canhong Wen and Aijun Zhang and Shijie Quan and Xueqin Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1709.06254},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

To appear in Journal of Statistical Software

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