Patrick Breheny

  1. A Selective Review of Group Selection in High Dimensional Models.

    Authors: Shuangge Ma, Jian Huang, Patrick Breheny
    Subjects: Statistics
    Abstract

    Grouping structures arise naturally in many statistical modeling problems.
    Several methods have been proposed for variable selection that respect grouping
    structure in variables. Examples include the group LASSO and several concave
    group selection methods. In this article, we give a selective review of group
    selection concerning methodological developments, theoretical properties, and
    computational algorithms. We pay particular attention to group selection
    methods involving concave penalties. We address both group selection and
    bi-level selection methods.

  2. Coordinate descent algorithms for nonconvex penalized regression, with applications to biological feature selection.

    Authors: Jian Huang, Patrick Breheny
    Subjects: Applications
    Abstract

    A number of variable selection methods have been proposed involving nonconvex
    penalty functions. These methods, which include the smoothly clipped absolute
    deviation (SCAD) penalty and the minimax concave penalty (MCP), have been
    demonstrated to have attractive theoretical properties, but model fitting is
    not a straightforward task, and the resulting solutions may be unstable.

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