Penalized expectile regression: an alternative to penalized quantile regression

Lina Liao (), Cheolwoo Park () and Hosik Choi ()
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Lina Liao: University of Georgia
Cheolwoo Park: University of Georgia
Hosik Choi: Kyonggi University

Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics, 2019, vol. 71, issue 2, No 7, 409-438

Abstract: Abstract This paper concerns the study of the entire conditional distribution of a response given predictors in a heterogeneous regression setting. A common approach to address heterogeneous data is quantile regression, which utilizes the minimization of the $$L_1$$ L 1 norm. As an alternative to quantile regression, we consider expectile regression, which relies on the minimization of the asymmetric $$L_2$$ L 2 norm and detects heteroscedasticity effectively. We assume that only a small set of predictors is relevant to the response and develop penalized expectile regression with SCAD and adaptive LASSO penalties. With properly chosen tuning parameters, we show that the proposed estimators display oracle properties. A numerical study using simulated and real examples demonstrates the competitive performance of the proposed penalized expectile regression, and its combined use with penalized quantile regression would be helpful and recommended for practitioners.

Keywords: Asymptotics; Expectile regression; Heteroscedasticity; Penalized regression; Variable selection (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1007/s10463-018-0645-1

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