Statistics Seminar

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Date/Time:Monday, 11 Apr 2016 from 4:10 pm to 5:00 pm
Location:Snedecor 3105
Cost:Free
URL:stat.iastate.edu
Contact:Kati Smith
Phone:515-294-3263
Channel:College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Categories:Lectures
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Hua Liang, Professor of Statistics and Biostatistics, Department of Statistics, George Washington University, Washington D.C.

In the low-dimensional case, the generalized additive coefficient model (GACM) proposed by has been demonstrated to be a powerful tool for studying nonlinear interaction effects of variables. In this paper, we propose estimation and inference procedures for the GACM when the dimension of the variables is high. Specifically, we propose a groupwise penalization based procedure to distinguish significant covariates for the ``large p small n" setting. The procedure is shown to be consistent for model structure identification. Further, we construct simultaneous confidence bands for the coefficient functions in the selected model based on a refined two-step spline estimator. We also discuss how to choose the tuning parameters. To estimate the standard deviation of the functional estimator, we adopt the smoothed bootstrap method. We conduct simulation experiments to evaluate the numerical performance of the proposed methods and analyze an obesity data set from a genome-wide association study as an illustration.