Pathwise coordinate optimization
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Publication:2466463
DOI10.1214/07-AOAS131zbMath1378.90064arXiv0708.1485MaRDI QIDQ2466463
Holger Höfling, Robert Tibshirani, Jerome H. Friedman, Trevor Hastie
Publication date: 15 January 2008
Published in: The Annals of Applied Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0708.1485
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