Variable Selection and Parameter Estimation Using a Continuous and Differentiable Approximation to the L0 Penalty Function

L0 penalized likelihood procedures like Mallows' Cp, AIC, and BIC directly penalize for the number of variables included in a regression model. This is a straightforward approach to the problem of overfitting, and these methods are now part of every statistician's repertoire. However, thes...

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Main Author: VanDerwerken, Douglas Nielsen
Format: Others
Published: BYU ScholarsArchive 2011
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Online Access:https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/2486
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3485&context=etd