Component selection and smoothing in multivariate nonparametric regression

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DOI10.1214/009053606000000722zbMATH Open1106.62041arXivmath/0702659OpenAlexW2080726496MaRDI QIDQ869970FDOQ869970


Authors: Yi Lin, Hao Helen Zhang Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 12 March 2007

Published in: The Annals of Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We propose a new method for model selection and model fitting in multivariate nonparametric regression models, in the framework of smoothing spline ANOVA. The ``COSSO is a method of regularization with the penalty functional being the sum of component norms, instead of the squared norm employed in the traditional smoothing spline method. The COSSO provides a unified framework for several recent proposals for model selection in linear models and smoothing spline ANOVA models. Theoretical properties, such as the existence and the rate of convergence of the COSSO estimator, are studied. In the special case of a tensor product design with periodic functions, a detailed analysis reveals that the COSSO does model selection by applying a novel soft thresholding type operation to the function components. We give an equivalent formulation of the COSSO estimator which leads naturally to an iterative algorithm. We compare the COSSO with MARS, a popular method that builds functional ANOVA models, in simulations and real examples. The COSSO method can be extended to classification problems and we compare its performance with those of a number of machine learning algorithms on real datasets. The COSSO gives very competitive performance in these studies.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0702659




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