Sparse and efficient estimation for partial spline models with increasing dimension

Guang Cheng (), Hao Zhang () and Zuofeng Shang ()

Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics, 2015, vol. 67, issue 1, 93-127

Abstract: We consider model selection and estimation for partial spline models and propose a new regularization method in the context of smoothing splines. The regularization method has a simple yet elegant form, consisting of roughness penalty on the nonparametric component and shrinkage penalty on the parametric components, which can achieve function smoothing and sparse estimation simultaneously. We establish the convergence rate and oracle properties of the estimator under weak regularity conditions. Remarkably, the estimated parametric components are sparse and efficient, and the nonparametric component can be estimated with the optimal rate. The procedure also has attractive computational properties. Using the representer theory of smoothing splines, we reformulate the objective function as a LASSO-type problem, enabling us to use the LARS algorithm to compute the solution path. We then extend the procedure to situations when the number of predictors increases with the sample size and investigate its asymptotic properties in that context. Finite-sample performance is illustrated by simulations. Copyright The Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Tokyo 2015

Keywords: Smoothing splines; Semiparametric models; RKHS; High dimensionality; Solution path; Oracle property; Shrinkage methods (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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