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We in this paper propose a directional regression based approach for ultrahigh dimensional sufficient variable screening with censored responses. The new method is designed in a model-free manner and thus can be adapted to various complex…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-02-28 Menghao Xu , Zhou Yu , Jun Shao

Statistical inference can be computationally prohibitive in ultrahigh-dimensional linear models. Correlation-based variable screening, in which one leverages marginal correlations for removal of irrelevant variables from the model prior to…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-07-07 Talal Ahmed , Waheed U. Bajwa

Although conceptually related, variable selection and relative importance (RI) analysis have been treated quite differently in the literature. While RI is typically used for post-hoc model explanation, this paper explores its potential for…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-04-24 Tien-En Chang , Argon Chen

In variable selection, most existing screening methods focus on marginal effects and ignore dependence between covariates. To improve the performance of selection, we incorporate pairwise effects in covariates for screening and…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-02-12 Siliang Gong , Kai Zhang , Yufeng Liu

Variable selection in ultrahigh-dimensional linear regression is challenging due to its high computational cost. Therefore, a screening step is usually conducted before variable selection to significantly reduce the dimension. Here we…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-04-29 Run Wang , An Nguyen , Somak Dutta , Vivekananda Roy

This paper treats the problem of screening for variables with high correlations in high dimensional data in which there can be many fewer samples than variables. We focus on threshold-based correlation screening methods for three related…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-03-18 Alfred O. Hero , Bala Rajaratnam

We treat the problem of testing independence between m continuous variables when m can be larger than the available sample size n. We consider three types of test statistics that are constructed as sums or sums of squares of pairwise rank…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-12-05 Dennis Leung , Mathias Drton

Two popular variable screening methods under the ultra-high dimensional setting with the desirable sure screening property are the sure independence screening (SIS) and the forward regression (FR). Both are classical variable screening…

Methodology · Statistics 2015-11-05 Ming-Yen Cheng , Sanying Feng , Gaorong Li , Heng Lian

Variable screening has been a useful research area that deals with ultrahigh-dimensional data. When there exist both marginally and jointly dependent predictors to the response, existing methods such as conditional screening or iterative…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-07-10 Lei Fang , Qingcong Yuan , Xiangrong Yin , Chenglong Ye

This paper proposes a model-free and data-adaptive feature screening method for ultra-high dimensional datasets. The proposed method is based on the projection correlation which measures the dependence between two random vectors. This…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-02-16 Wanjun Liu , Yuan Ke , Jingyuan Liu , Runze Li

In data sets with many more features than observations, independent screening based on all univariate regression models leads to a computationally convenient variable selection method. Recent efforts have shown that in the case of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2011-08-12 Anders Gorst-Rasmussen , Thomas H. Scheike

The varying-coefficient model is an important nonparametric statistical model that allows us to examine how the effects of covariates vary with exposure variables. When the number of covariates is big, the issue of variable selection…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2013-03-05 Jianqing Fan , Yunbei Ma , Wei Dai

A ubiquitous feature of data of our era is their extra-large sizes and dimensions. Analyzing such high-dimensional data poses significant challenges, since the feature dimension is often much larger than the sample size. This thesis…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-09-11 Kai Yang

In large-scale biomedical research, it's common to gather ultra-high dimensional data that includes right-censored survival times. Feature screening has emerged as a crucial statistical technique for handling such data. In this paper, we…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-03-31 Shuya Chen , Heng Peng , Min Zhou

We consider an independence feature screening technique for identifying explanatory variables that locally contribute to the response variable in high-dimensional regression analysis. Without requiring a specific parametric form of the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-03-31 Jinyuan Chang , Cheng Yong Tang , Yichao Wu

Variable screening is a fast dimension reduction technique for assisting high dimensional feature selection. As a preselection method, it selects a moderate size subset of candidate variables for further refining via feature selection to…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-06-09 Xiangyu Wang , Chenlei Leng , David B. Dunson

Testing independence among a number of (ultra) high-dimensional random samples is a fundamental and challenging problem. By arranging $n$ identically distributed $p$-dimensional random vectors into a $p \times n$ data matrix, we investigate…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2017-03-28 Xi Chen , Weidong Liu

Feature or variable selection is a problem inherent to large data sets. While many methods have been proposed to deal with this problem, some can scale poorly with the number of predictors in a data set. Screening methods scale linearly…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-01-09 Naveed Merchant , Jeffrey D. Hart

How to select the active variables which have significant impact on the event of interest is a very important and meaningful problem in the statistical analysis of ultrahigh-dimensional data. Sure independent screening procedure has been…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-03-28 Xuerui Li , Yanyan Liu , Yankai Peng , Jing Zhang

Selecting the top-$m$ variables with the $m$ largest population parameters from a larger set of candidates is a fundamental problem in statistics. In this paper, we propose a novel methodology called Sequential Correct Screening (SCS),…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-08-21 Masaki Toyoda , Yoshimasa Uematsu