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On oracle efficiency of the ROAD classification rule

Statistics Theory 2014-05-26 v1 Statistics Theory

Abstract

For high-dimensional classification Fishers rule performs poorly due to noise from estimation of the covariance matrix. Fan, Feng and Tong (2012) introduced the ROAD classifier that puts an L1L_1-constraint on the classification vector. In their Theorem 1 Fan, Feng and Tong (2012) show that the ROAD classifier asymptotically has the same misclassification rate as the corresponding oracle based classifier. Unfortunately, the proof contains an error. Here we restate the theorem and provide a new proof.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1405.5989,
  title  = {On oracle efficiency of the ROAD classification rule},
  author = {Britta Anker Bak and Jens Ledet Jensen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1405.5989},
  year   = {2014}
}
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