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In practical regression applications, multiple covariates are often measured, but not all may be associated with the response variable. Identifying and including only the relevant covariates in the model is crucial for improving prediction…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-03-10 Ana Carolina da Cruz , Camila P. E. de Souza , Pedro H. T. O. Sousa

Many problems within personalized medicine and digital health rely on the analysis of continuous-time functional biomarkers and other complex data structures emerging from high-resolution patient monitoring. In this context, this work…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-01-14 Marcos Matabuena

Functional covariates are common in many medical, biodemographic, and neuroimaging studies. The aim of this paper is to study functional Cox models with right-censored data in the presence of both functional and scalar covariates. We study…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-01-28 Simeng Qu , Jane-Ling Wang , Xiao Wang

Cox proportional hazards model is one of the most popular models in biomedical data analysis. There have been continuing efforts to improve the flexibility of such models for complex signal detection, for example, via additive functions.…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-05-25 Boyi Guo , Nengjun Yi

Interval-censored data arise frequently in scientific studies, where the event of interest is known only to occur within a specific time interval. In such studies, functional covariates taking the form of continuous curves or spatial…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-05-18 Yangjianchen Xu , Peijun Sang

In multi-state models based on high-dimensional data, effective modeling strategies are required to determine an optimal, ideally parsimonious model. In particular, linking covariate effects across transitions is needed to conduct joint…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-11-27 Kaya Miah , Jelle J. Goeman , Hein Putter , Annette Kopp-Schneider , Axel Benner

The standard quantile regression model assumes a linear relationship at the quantile of interest and that all variables are observed. We relax these assumptions by considering a partial linear model while allowing for missing linear…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-06-07 Ben Sherwood

Modern biomedical survival studies with high-dimensional genomic and clinical predictors are challenged by missing covariates. Existing methods conduct inference through penalization and debiasing when the number of covariates diverges with…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-05-22 Zhilin Zhang , Yi Li

This paper arises from collaborative research the aim of which was to model clinical assessments of upper limb function after stroke using 3D kinematic data. We present a new nonlinear mixed-effects scalar-on-function regression model with…

Applications · Statistics 2016-05-24 Yafeng Cheng , Jian Qing Shi , Janet Eyre

In recent years, the growing availability of biomedical datasets featuring numerous longitudinal covariates has motivated the development of several multi-step methods for the dynamic prediction of survival outcomes. These methods employ…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-01-14 Mirko Signorelli , Sophie Retif

Smoothing of noisy sample covariances is an important component in functional data analysis. We propose a novel covariance smoothing method based on penalized splines and associated software. The proposed method is a bivariate spline…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-04-07 Luo Xiao , Cai Li , William Checkley , Ciprian M. Crainiceanu

In this work, we developed a new Bayesian method for variable selection in function-on-scalar regression (FOSR). Our method uses a hierarchical Bayesian structure and latent variables to enable an adaptive covariate selection process for…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-03-31 Pedro Henrique T. O. Sousa , Camila P. E. de Souza , Ronaldo Dias

Variable selection plays a fundamental role in high-dimensional data analysis. Various methods have been developed for variable selection in recent years. Well-known examples are forward stepwise regression (FSR) and least angle regression…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-02-01 Siliang Gong , Kai Zhang , Yufeng Liu

Clinical research often focuses on complex traits in which many variables play a role in mechanisms driving, or curing, diseases. Clinical prediction is hard when data is high-dimensional, but additional information, like domain knowledge…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-05-21 Mirrelijn M. van Nee , Lodewyk F. A. Wessels , Mark A. van de Wiel

Covariance estimation is essential yet underdeveloped for analyzing multivariate functional data. We propose a fast covariance estimation method for multivariate sparse functional data using bivariate penalized splines. The tensor-product…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-06-11 Cai Li , Luo Xiao , Sheng Luo

A number of variable selection methods have been proposed involving nonconvex penalty functions. These methods, which include the smoothly clipped absolute deviation (SCAD) penalty and the minimax concave penalty (MCP), have been…

Applications · Statistics 2011-04-15 Patrick Breheny , Jian Huang

We consider a joint survival and mixed-effects model to explain the survival time from longitudinal data and high-dimensional covariates in a population. The longitudinal data is modeled using a non linear mixed-effects model to account for…

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In this paper, we are concerned with how to select significant variables in semiparametric modeling. Variable selection for semiparametric regression models consists of two components: model selection for nonparametric components and…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2008-12-18 Runze Li , Hua Liang

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

In this paper, we study the model selection and structure specification for the generalised semi-varying coefficient models (GSVCMs), where the number of potential covariates is allowed to be larger than the sample size. We first propose a…

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