In this short note, we demonstrate that Schwarz’s criterion, which has been used frequently in the literature on quantile regression, is consistent in variable selection. In particular, due to the recent interest in penalized likelihood for variable selection, we also show that Schwarz’s...

For linear models with a diverging number of parameters, it has recently been shown that modified versions of Bayesian information criterion (BIC) can identify the true model consistently. However, in many cases there is little justification that the effects of the covariates are actually...

Semiparametric models with both nonparametric and parametric components have become increasingly useful in many scientific fields, due to their appropriate representation of the trade-off between flexibility and efficiency of statistical models. In this paper we focus on semi-varying coefficient...

type="main" xml:id="rssb12066-abs-0001" <title type="main">Summary</title> <p>We consider heteroscedastic regression models where the mean function is a partially linear single-index model and the variance function depends on a generalized partially linear single-index model. We do not insist that the variance function...</p>

In this paper, we consider the partially linear single-index models with longitudinal data. We propose the bias-corrected quadratic inference function (QIF) method to estimate the parameters in the model by accounting for the within-subject correlation. Asymptotic properties for the proposed...

We consider penalized singular value decomposition (SVD) for a (noisy) data matrix when the left singular vector has a sparse structure and the right singular vector is a discretized function. Such situations typically arise from spatio-temporal data where only some small spatial regions are...

We propose the penalized estimator with the smoothly clipped absolute deviation (SCAD) penalty for varying coefficient time series models, which in autoregressive models actually performs lag order selection. Theoretical properties are established. Some numerical examples are also presented.

We study in this paper the consistency of Bayesian estimation of a piecewise constant function defined on [0,1] with observations on a grid, using the method in Barron et al. [1999. The consistency of posterior distributions in nonparametric problems. Ann. Statist. 27, 536-561.] In particular,...