Savin, Ivan - In: Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbuecher fuer … 233 (2013) 4, pp. 526-549
This study presents a first comparative analysis of Lasso-type (Lasso, adaptive Lasso, elastic net) and heuristic … subset selection methods. Although the Lasso has shown success in many situations, it has some limitations. In particular …, inconsistent results are obtained for pairwise highly correlated predictors. An alternative to the Lasso is constituted by model …