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Confounding can lead to spurious associations. Typically, one must observe confounders in order to adjust for them, but in high-dimensional settings, recent research has shown that it becomes possible to adjust even for unobserved…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-10-07 Yujing Lu , Patrick Breheny

Penalized regression methods, most notably the lasso, are a popular approach to analyzing high-dimensional data. An attractive property of the lasso is that it naturally performs variable selection. An important area of concern, however, is…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-05-13 Ryan Miller , Patrick Breheny

High-dimensional sparse modeling with censored survival data is of great practical importance, as exemplified by modern applications in high-throughput genomic data analysis and credit risk analysis. In this article, we propose a class of…

Methodology · Statistics 2014-03-19 Wei Lin , Jinchi Lv

We develop a recursive least square (RLS) type algorithm with a minimax concave penalty (MCP) for adaptive identification of a sparse tap-weight vector that represents a communication channel. The proposed algorithm recursively yields its…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-03 Bowen Li , Suya Wu , Erin E. Tripp , Ali Pezeshki , Vahid Tarokh

In high-dimensional regression modelling, the number of candidate covariates to be included in the predictor is quite large, and variable selection is crucial. In this work, we propose a new penalty able to guarantee both sparse variable…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-12-19 Daniele Cuntrera , Luigi Augugliaro , Vito M. R. Muggeo

In this paper, we propose a novel method to select significant variables and estimate the corresponding coefficients in multiple-index models with a group structure. All existing approaches for single-index models cannot be extended…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-04-13 Tao Wang , Peirong Xu , Lixing Zhu

Two important goals of high-dimensional modeling are prediction and variable selection. In this article, we consider regularization with combined $L_1$ and concave penalties, and study the sampling properties of the global optimum of the…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-05-12 Yingying Fan , Jinchi Lv

Variable selection is an old and pervasive problem in regression analysis. One solution is to impose a lasso penalty to shrink parameter estimates toward zero and perform continuous model selection. The lasso-penalized mixture of linear…

Applications · Statistics 2016-05-04 Luke R. Lloyd-Jones , Hien D. Nguyen , Geoffrey J. McLachlan

We propose a general adaptive LASSO method for a quantile regression model. Our method is very interesting when we know nothing about the first two moments of the model error. We first prove that the obtained estimators satisfy the oracle…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-02-05 Gabriela Ciuperca

We develop a Monte Carlo-free approach to inference post output from randomized algorithms with a convex loss and a convex penalty. The pivotal statistic based on a truncated law, called the selective pivot, usually lacks closed form…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-05-19 Snigdha Panigrahi , Jelena Markovic , Jonathan Taylor

Penalized likelihood methods are fundamental to ultra-high dimensional variable selection. How high dimensionality such methods can handle remains largely unknown. In this paper, we show that in the context of generalized linear models,…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2009-10-08 Jianqing Fan , Jinchi Lv

We propose a new penalized method for variable selection and estimation that explicitly incorporates the correlation patterns among predictors. This method is based on a combination of the minimax concave penalty and Laplacian quadratic…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2011-12-16 Jian Huang , Shuangge Ma , Hongzhe Li , Cun-Hui Zhang

This paper addresses the problem of sparsity penalized least squares for applications in sparse signal processing, e.g. sparse deconvolution. This paper aims to induce sparsity more strongly than L1 norm regularization, while avoiding…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-06-15 Ivan W. Selesnick , Ilker Bayram

Many least squares problems involve affine equality and inequality constraints. Although there are variety of methods for solving such problems, most statisticians find constrained estimation challenging. The current paper proposes a new…

Computation · Statistics 2013-10-22 Hua Zhou , Kenneth Lange

Variable selection in linear regression has been a central topic in statistical research for decades. Bayesian variable selection methods, which account for uncertainty in both the regression coefficients and the noise variance, have…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-04-24 Leo L Duan

We study sparse linear regression over a network of agents, modeled as an undirected graph (with no centralized node). The estimation problem is formulated as the minimization of the sum of the local LASSO loss functions plus a quadratic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-23 Yao Ji , Gesualdo Scutari , Ying Sun , Harsha Honnappa

Non-concave penalized maximum likelihood methods, such as the Bridge, the SCAD, and the MCP, are widely used because they not only do parameter estimation and variable selection simultaneously but also have a high efficiency as compared to…

Methodology · Statistics 2015-12-31 Yuta Umezu , Yusuke Shimizu , Hiroki Masuda , Yoshiyuki Ninomiya

Variable selection is fundamental to high-dimensional statistical modeling. Many variable selection techniques may be implemented by maximum penalized likelihood using various penalty functions. Optimizing the penalized likelihood function…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2007-06-13 David R. Hunter , Runze Li

Inferring network structures remains an interesting question for its importance on the understanding and controlling collective dynamics of complex systems. The existing shrinking methods such as Lasso-type estimation can not suitably…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-09-03 Lei Shi , Jie Hu , Huaiyu Tan , Libin Jin , Wei Zhong , Chen Shen

The smoothly clipped absolute deviation (SCAD) and the minimax concave penalty (MCP) penalized regression models are two important and widely used nonconvex sparse learning tools that can handle variable selection and parameter estimation…

Computation · Statistics 2019-07-11 Yueyong Shi , Jian Huang , Yuling Jiao , Qinglong Yang