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Van Cuong Nguyen1, Chi Tim Ng1
1Department of Statistics, Chonnam National University, Gwangju, Republic of Korea.
Abstract:
To handle the multicollinearity issues in the regression analysis, a class of 'strictly concave penalty function' is described in this paper. As an example, a new penalty function called 'modified log penalty' is introduced. The penalized estimator based on strictly concave penalties enjoys the oracle property under certain regularity conditions discussed in the literature. In the multicollinearity cases where such conditions are not applicable, the behaviors of the strictly concave penalties are discussed through examples involving strongly correlated covariates. Real data examples and simulation studies are provided to show the finite-sample performance of the modified log penalty in terms of prediction error under scenarios exhibiting multicollinearity.
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