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SUBMITTER: Bien J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4527358 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Bien Jacob J Taylor Jonathan J Tibshirani Robert R
Annals of statistics 20130601 3
We add a set of convex constraints to the lasso to produce sparse interaction models that honor the hierarchy restriction that an interaction only be included in a model if one or both variables are marginally important. We give a precise characterization of the effect of this hierarchy constraint, prove that hierarchy holds with probability one and derive an unbiased estimate for the degrees of freedom of our estimator. A bound on this estimate reveals the amount of fitting "saved" by the hiera ...[more]