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Activity Number:
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5
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Type:
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Invited
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Date/Time:
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Sunday, July 29, 2012 : 2:00 PM to 3:50 PM
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Sponsor:
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Section on Nonparametric Statistics
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Abstract - #303641 |
Title:
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On Shrinkage Estimation of Varying Covariates Effects Based on Quantile Regression
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Author(s):
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Limin Peng*+ and Jinfeng Xu and Nancy Kutner
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Companies:
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Emory University and National University of Singapore and Emory University
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Address:
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1518 Clifton Road NE, Atlanta, GA, 30322,
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Keywords:
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Adaptive-LASSO ;
Quantile regression ;
Shrinkage estimation ;
Variable selection ;
Varying covariate effects
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Abstract:
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Varying covariate effects often manifest meaningful heterogeneity in covariate-response associations. In this paper, we adopt a quantile regression model that assumes linearity at a continuous range of quantile levels as a tool to explore such data dynamics. The consideration of potential non-constancy of covariate effects necessitates a new perspective for variable selection, which, under the assumed quantile regression model, is to retain variables that have effects on all quantiles of interest as well as those that influence only part of quantiles considered. In this work, we propose a shrinkage approach by adopting a novel uniform adaptive LASSO penalty. The new approach enjoys easy implementation without requiring smoothing. Moreover, it can consistently identify the true model (uniformly across quantiles) and achieve the oracle estimation efficiency. We further extend the proposed shrinkage method to the case where responses are subject to random right censoring. Numerical studies confirm the theoretical results and support the utility of our proposals.
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