期刊
JOURNAL OF STATISTICAL COMPUTATION AND SIMULATION
卷 84, 期 9, 页码 1917-1930出版社
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/00949655.2013.770514
关键词
confidence regions; cyclic coordinate descent; empirical likelihood; likelihood ratio; MM algorithm; profiled empirical likelihood; 62G05; 65K10
资金
- National University of Singapore Academic Research Grants
- Risk Management Institute, National University of Singapore
- NSF [CCF-0926181]
Empirical likelihood (EL) as a nonparametric approach has been demonstrated to have many desirable merits. While it has intensive development in methodological research, its practical application is less explored due to the requirements of intensive optimizations. Effective and stable algorithms therefore are highly desired for practical implementation of EL. This paper bears the effort to narrow the gap between methodological research and practical application of EL. We try to tackle the computation problems, which are considered difficult by practitioners, by introducing a nested coordinate descent algorithm and one modified version to EL. Coordinate descent as a class of convenient and robust algorithms has been shown in the existing literature to be effective in optimizations. We show that the nested coordinate descent algorithms can be conveniently and stably applied in general EL problems. The combination of nested coordinate descent with the MM algorithm further simplifies the computation. The nested coordinate descent algorithms are a natural and perfect match with inferences based on profile estimation and variable selection in high-dimensional data. Extensive examples are conducted to demonstrate the performance of the nested coordinate descent algorithms in the context of EL.
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