Penalized estimating functions and variable selection in semiparametric regression models

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 103, Issue 482, 2008, Pages 672-680

  Johnson, Brent A ^a   Lin, D Y ^b   Zeng, Donglin ^b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

Accelerated failure time model; Buckley James estimator; Censoring; Least absolute shrinkage and selection operator; Least squares; Linear regression; Missing data; Smoothly clipped absolute deviation

Indexed keywords

EID: 49549107073     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/016214508000000184     Document Type: Article

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