Variable screening based on Gaussian Centered L-moments
Hyowon An,
Kai Zhang,
Hannu Oja and
J.S. Marron
Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, 2023, vol. 179, issue C
Abstract:
An important challenge in big data is identification of important variables. For this purpose, methods of discovering variables with non-standard univariate marginal distributions are proposed. The conventional moments based summary statistics can be well-adopted, but their sensitivity to outliers can lead to selection based on a few outliers rather than distributional shape such as bimodality. To address this type of non-robustness, the L-moments are considered. Using these in practice, however, has a limitation since they do not take zero values at the Gaussian distributions to which the shape of a marginal distribution is most naturally compared. As a remedy, Gaussian Centered L-moments are proposed, which share advantages of the L-moments, but have zeros at the Gaussian distributions. The strength of Gaussian Centered L-moments over other conventional moments is shown in theoretical and practical aspects such as their performances in screening important genes in cancer genetics data.
Keywords: Robust statistics; L-moments; L-statistics; Skewness; Kurtosis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1016/j.csda.2022.107632
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