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"High Dimensional Statistical Learning with Bayesian Variable Selection" by Wenxin Jiang, Northwestern University

Speaker Wenxin Jiang, Northwestern University
Date Apr 26, 2012
Time 4:00 pm  
Location 165 Everitt Lab
Sponsor Department of Statistics
Phone 3-2167
Event type Seminar
Views 4440
Originating Calendar Department of Statistics
This is a theoretical study on the frequentists' convergence properties of Bayesian inference using binary logistic or probit regression, when the number of explanatory variables `p' is possibly much larger than the number of study units `n'. In a popular approach of `Bayesian Variable Selection', one uses a prior to select a limited number of candidate variables to enter the model. We show that this approach can induce posterior estimates of the regression functions that are consistently estimating the truth, if the true regression model satisfies some `sparseness condition', which indicates that most of the candidate variables have very small effects in regression. The estimated regression functions therefore can also produce `consistent' classifiers that are asymptotically optimal for predicting future binary responses. Furthermore, we show in some sparse situations that the corresponding rate of convergence resembles the convergence rate in a low dimensional setup (p << n), even if the actual set up is high dimensional with p >> n. Therefore, it is possible to use Bayesian variable selection to reduce overfitting caused by the curse of dimensionality.
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