Journal
ANNALS OF STATISTICS
Volume 42, Issue 5, Pages 1751-1786Publisher
INST MATHEMATICAL STATISTICS
DOI: 10.1214/14-AOS1233
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Interactions; inverse models; sliced inverse regression; sure independence screening; variable selection
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- NSF [DMS-10-07762, DMS-11-20368]
- Shenzhen Special Fund for Strategic Emerging Industry [ZD201111080127A]
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien
- Division Of Mathematical Sciences [1120368] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Division Of Mathematical Sciences
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [1007762] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Variable selection, also known as feature selection in machine learning, plays an important role in modeling high dimensional data and is key to data-driven scientific discoveries. We consider here the problem of detecting influential variables under the general index model, in which the response is dependent of predictors through an unknown function of one or more linear combinations of them. Instead of building a predictive model of the response given combinations of predictors, we model the conditional distribution of predictors given the response. This inverse modeling perspective motivates us to propose a stepwise procedure based on likelihood-ratio tests, which is effective and computationally efficient in identifying important variables without specifying a parametric relationship between predictors and the response. For example, the proposed procedure is able to detect variables with pairwise, three-way or even higher-order interactions among p predictors with a computational time of O(p) instead of O(p(k)) (with k being the highest order of interactions). Its excellent empirical performance in comparison with existing methods is demonstrated through simulation studies as well as real data examples. Consistency of the variable selection procedure when both the number of predictors and the sample size go to infinity is established.
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