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...

In this paper, following the results presented in Liu's work [Liu, A.Y., 2002. Efficient estimation of two seemingly unrelated regression equations. Journal of Multivariate Analysis 82, 445-456], we first represent the Gauss-Markov estimator of the regression parameter as a matrix series, and...

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...

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 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,...

We consider the augmented Lagrangian method (ALM) as a solver for the fused lasso signal approximator (FLSA) problem. The ALM is a dual method in which squares of the constraint functions are added as penalties to the Lagrangian. In order to apply this method to FLSA, two types of auxiliary...

We consider joint rank and variable selection in multivariate regression. Previously proposed joint rank and variable selection approaches assume that different responses are related to the same set of variables, which suggests using a group penalty on the rows of the coefficient matrix....

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Rochester. School of Medicine and Dentistry. Dept. of Biostatistics and Computational Biology, 2009.