In social network analysis, many estimation methods have been developed over the past three decades. Due to the computational complexity for analyzing large-scale social network data, however, those methods cannot be applied effectively. On the other hand, the structure of large-scale network...

In high dimensional data analysis, we propose a sequential model averaging (SMA) method to make accurate and stable predictions. Specifically, we in- troduce a hybrid approach that combines a sequential screening process with a model averaging algorithm, where the weight of each model is...

Researchers typically encounter missing data in practice and have developed various imputation methods. However, the existing methods are mainly developed for independent data and the assumption of independence disregards the connections of units through various social relationships (e.g.,...

We propose here a novel method of factor profiling (FP) for ultra high dimensional variable selection. The new method assumes that the correlation structure of the high dimensional data can be well represented by a set of low-dimensional latent factors (Fan et al., 2008). The latent factors can...

With the rapid development of the Internet and information technology, consumers have increasingly begun to acquire information through search engines, thus creating profitable advertising opportunities and advancing the practice of paid search advertising. For paid search advertising, a key...

In a high dimensional linear regression model, we propose a new procedure for testing statistical significance of a subset of regression coefficients. Specifically, we employ the partial covariances between the response variable and the tested covariates to obtain a test statistic. The resulting...