• Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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• v.20 no.4
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• pp.259-270
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• 2013

This paper considers a penalized composite quantile regression (CQR) that performs a variable selection in the linear model with grouped variables. An adaptive sup-norm penalized CQR (ASCQR) is proposed to select variables in a grouped manner; in addition, the consistency and oracle property of the resulting estimator are also derived under some regularity conditions. To improve the efficiency of estimation and variable selection, this paper suggests the two-stage penalized CQR (TSCQR), which uses the ASCQR to select relevant groups in the first stage and the adaptive lasso penalized CQR to select important variables in the second stage. Simulation studies are conducted to illustrate the finite sample performance of the proposed methods.

• Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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• v.26 no.6
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• pp.1513-1521
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• 2015

Selecting relevant variables for a statistical model is very important in regression analysis. Recently, variable selection methods using a penalized likelihood have been widely studied in various regression models. The main advantage of these methods is that they select important variables and estimate the regression coefficients of the covariates, simultaneously. In this paper, we propose a simple procedure based on a penalized h-likelihood (HL) for variable selection in Poisson hierarchical generalized linear models (HGLMs) for correlated count data. For this we consider three penalty functions (LASSO, SCAD and HL), and derive the corresponding variable-selection procedures. The proposed method is illustrated using a practical example.

• Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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• v.22 no.2
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• pp.147-157
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• 2015

We consider a sparse high-dimensional linear regression model. Penalized methods using LASSO or non-convex penalties have been widely used for variable selection and estimation in high-dimensional regression models. In penalized regression, the selection and prediction performances depend on which penalty function is used. For example, it is known that LASSO has a good prediction performance but tends to select more variables than necessary. In this paper, we propose an additive sparse penalty for variable selection using a combination of LASSO and minimax concave penalties (MCP). The proposed penalty is designed for good properties of both LASSO and MCP.We develop an efficient algorithm to compute the proposed estimator by combining a concave convex procedure and coordinate descent algorithm. Numerical studies show that the proposed method has better selection and prediction performances compared to other penalized methods.

• Proceedings of the Korean Statistical Society Conference
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• 2003.05a
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• pp.151-156
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• 2003

Variable selection algorithm for principal component analysis using penalized likelihood method is proposed. We will adopt a probabilistic principal component idea to utilize likelihood function for the problem and use HARD penalty function to force coefficients of any irrelevant variables for each component to zero. Consistency and sparsity of coefficient estimates will be provided with results of small simulated and illustrative real examples.

• Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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• v.22 no.5
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• pp.951-959
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• 2011

The proposed method is based on a penalized censored regression model with L1-penalty. We use the iteratively reweighted least squares procedure to solve L1 penalized log likelihood function of censored regression model. It provide the efficient computation of regression parameters including variable selection and leads to the generalized cross validation function for the model selection. Numerical results are then presented to indicate the performance of the proposed method.

• Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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• v.25 no.6
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• pp.591-604
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• 2018

The accelerated failure time (AFT) model is a linear model under the log-transformation of survival time that has been introduced as a useful alternative to the proportional hazards (PH) model. In this paper we propose variable-selection procedures of fixed effects in a parametric AFT model using penalized likelihood approaches. We use three popular penalty functions, least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (LASSO), adaptive LASSO and smoothly clipped absolute deviation (SCAD). With these procedures we can select important variables and estimate the fixed effects at the same time. The performance of the proposed method is evaluated using simulation studies, including the investigation of impact of misspecifying the assumed distribution. The proposed method is illustrated with a primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC) data set.

• Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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• v.27 no.2
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• pp.499-510
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• 2016

It is very important to select relevant variables in regression models for survival analysis. In this paper, we introduce a penalized variable-selection procedure in multi-level frailty models based on the "frailtyHL" R package (Ha et al., 2012). Here, the estimation procedure of models is based on the penalized hierarchical likelihood, and three penalty functions (LASSO, SCAD and HL) are considered. The proposed methods are illustrated with multi-country/multi-center bladder cancer survival data from the EORTC in Belgium. We compare the results of three variable-selection methods and discuss their advantages and disadvantages. In particular, the results of data analysis showed that the SCAD and HL methods select well important variables than in the LASSO method.

• Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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• v.24 no.5
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• pp.1077-1088
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• 2013

High-dimensional data analysis arises from almost all scientific areas, evolving with development of computing skills, and has encouraged penalized estimations that play important roles in statistical learning. For the past years, various penalized estimations have been developed, and the least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (LASSO) proposed by Tibshirani (1996) has shown outstanding ability, earning the first place on the development of penalized estimation. In this paper, we first introduce a number of recent advances in high-dimensional data analysis using the LASSO. The topics include various statistical problems such as variable selection and grouped or structured variable selection under sparse high-dimensional linear regression models. Several unsupervised learning methods including inverse covariance matrix estimation are presented. In addition, we address further studies on new applications which may establish a guideline on how to use the LASSO for statistical challenges of high-dimensional data analysis.

• Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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• v.23 no.1
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• pp.199-207
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• 2012

Recently, variable selection methods using penalized likelihood with a shrink penalty function have been widely studied in various statistical models including generalized linear models and survival models. In particular, they select important variables and estimate coefficients of covariates simultaneously. In this paper, we develop a penalize h-likelihood method for variable selection in gamma frailty models. For this we use the smoothly clipped absolute deviation (SCAD) penalty function, which satisfies a good property in variable selection. The proposed method is illustrated using simulation study and a practical data set.

• Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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• v.27 no.6
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• pp.1653-1660
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• 2016

Smoothly clipped absolute deviation (SCAD) penalty is known to satisfy the desirable properties for penalty functions like as unbiasedness, sparsity and continuity. In this paper, we deal with the regression function estimation and variable selection based on SCAD penalized censored regression model. We use the local linear approximation and the iteratively reweighted least squares algorithm to solve SCAD penalized log likelihood function. The proposed method provides an efficient method for variable selection and regression function estimation. The generalized cross validation function is presented for the model selection. Applications of the proposed method are illustrated through the simulated and a real example.