Bayesian variable selection for high dimensional generalized linear models: convergence rates of the fitted densities

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2007-10-18

arxiv.org/abs/0710.3458v1

Annals of Statistics 2007, Vol. 35, No. 4, 1487-1511

Mathematics

Statistics Theory

Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/009053607000000019 the Annals of Statistics (http://www.imstat.org/aos/) by the Inst

Scientific paper

10.1214/009053607000000019

Bayesian variable selection has gained much empirical success recently in a variety of applications when the number $K$ of explanatory variables $(x_1,...,x_K)$ is possibly much larger than the sample size $n$. For generalized linear models, if most of the $x_j$'s have very small effects on the response $y$, we show that it is possible to use Bayesian variable selection to reduce overfitting caused by the curse of dimensionality $K\gg n$. In this approach a suitable prior can be used to choose a few out of the many $x_j$'s to model $y$, so that the posterior will propose probability densities $p$ that are ``often close'' to the true density $p^*$ in some sense. The closeness can be described by a Hellinger distance between $p$ and $p^*$ that scales at a power very close to $n^{-1/2}$, which is the ``finite-dimensional rate'' corresponding to a low-dimensional situation. These findings extend some recent work of Jiang [Technical Report 05-02 (2005) Dept. Statistics, Northwestern Univ.] on consistency of Bayesian variable selection for binary classification.

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