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Activity Number: 321
Type: Contributed
Date/Time: Tuesday, August 2, 2016 : 8:30 AM to 10:20 AM
Sponsor: IMS
Abstract #320524 View Presentation
Title: Accuracy Assessment for High-Dimensional Linear Regression
Author(s): Tony Cai and Zijian Guo*
Companies: University of Pennsylvania and University of Pennsylvania
Keywords: Accuracy assessment ; confidence interval ; adaptivity ; high-dimensional linear regression ; loss estimation ; minimax lower bound
Abstract:

This paper considers point and interval estimation of the $\ell_q$ loss of an estimator in high-dimensional linear regression with random design. Both the setting of known identity design covariance matrix and known noise level and the setting of unknown design covariance matrix and noise level are studied. We establish the minimax convergence rate for estimating the $\ell_{q}$ loss and the minimax expected length of confidence intervals for the $\ell_{q}$ loss of a broad collection of estimators of the regression vector. We also investigate the adaptivity of the confidence intervals for the $\ell_{q}$ loss. The results reveal interesting and significant differences between estimating the $\ell_2$ loss and $\ell_q$ loss with $1\le q < 2$ as well as the differences between the two settings.

A major step in our analysis is to establish rate sharp lower bounds for the minimax estimation error and the expected length of minimax and adaptive confidence intervals for the $\ell_q$ loss, which require the development of new technical tools. A significant difference between loss estimation and the traditional parameter estimation is that for loss estimation the constraint is on the per


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