Estimation and Testing Under Sparsity École d'Été de Probabilités de Saint-Flour XLV – 2015 /

Taking the Lasso method as its starting point, this book describes the main ingredients needed to study general loss functions and sparsity-inducing regularizers. It also provides a semi-parametric approach to establishing confidence intervals and tests. Sparsity-inducing methods have proven to be v...

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Main Author: van de Geer, Sara. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
Edition:1st ed. 2016.
Series:École d'Été de Probabilités de Saint-Flour, 2159
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32774-7
Table of Contents:
  • 1 Introduction.- The Lasso.- 3 The square-root Lasso.- 4 The bias of the Lasso and worst possible sub-directions.- 5 Confidence intervals using the Lasso.- 6 Structured sparsity
  • 7 General loss with norm-penalty
  • 8 Empirical process theory for dual norms.- 9 Probability inequalities for matrices.- 10 Inequalities for the centred empirical risk and its derivative.- 11 The margin condition.- 12 Some worked-out examples.- 13 Brouwer’s fixed point theorem and sparsity.- 14 Asymptotically linear estimators of the precision matrix.- 15 Lower bounds for sparse quadratic forms.- 16 Symmetrization, contraction and concentration.- 17 Chaining including concentration.- 18 Metric structure of convex hulls.