Flexible Shrinkage Estimation in High-Dimensional Varying Coefficient Models

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2010-08-13

arxiv.org/abs/1008.2271v1

Statistics

Methodology

26 pages

Scientific paper

We consider the problem of simultaneous variable selection and constant coefficient identification in high-dimensional varying coefficient models based on B-spline basis expansion. Both objectives can be considered as some type of model selection problems and we show that they can be achieved by a double shrinkage strategy. We apply the adaptive group Lasso penalty in models involving a diverging number of covariates, which can be much larger than the sample size, but we assume the number of relevant variables is smaller than the sample size via model sparsity. Such so-called ultra-high dimensional settings are especially challenging in semiparametric models as we consider here and has not been dealt with before. Under suitable conditions, we show that consistency in terms of both variable selection and constant coefficient identification can be achieved, as well as the oracle property of the constant coefficients. Even in the case that the zero and constant coefficients are known a priori, our results appear to be new in that it reduces to semivarying coefficient models (a.k.a. partially linear varying coefficient models) with a diverging number of covariates. We also theoretically demonstrate the consistency of a semiparametric BIC-type criterion in this high-dimensional context, extending several previous results. The finite sample behavior of the estimator is evaluated by some Monte Carlo studies.

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