Valid confidence intervals for post-model-selection predictors

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Abstract: We consider inference post-model-selection in linear regression. In this setting, Berk et al.(2013) recently introduced a class of confidence sets, the so-called PoSI intervals, that cover a certain non-standard quantity of interest with a user-specified minimal coverage probability, irrespective of the model selection procedure that is being used. In this paper, we generalize the PoSI intervals to post-model-selection predictors.


This paper proposes confidence intervals for post-model-selection predictors in a regression framework. The confidence intervals are constructed in a similar way to the PoSI intervals, and intend to cover the quantity of interest with a use-specified minimal coverage probability, irrespective of the model selection procedure. The quantity of interest is, basically, a projection of the expected value of the dependent variable on the space spanned by the regressors included in the selected model. The validity of the confidence levels is established under different conditions in the paper. The increase in width due to the intervals being obtained by maximizing over all inactive variables is show to be small in simulations and asymptotically. The simulations include model selection employing AIC, BIC, LASSO, SCAD and MCP.




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