Penalized Quadratic Inference Functions for Variable Selection in Longitudinal Research

For decades, much research has been devoted to developing and comparing variable selection methods, but primarily for the classical case of independent observations. Existing variable-selection methods can be adapted to cluster-correlated observations, but some adaptation is required. For example, classical model fit statistics such as AIC and BIC are undefined if the likelihood function is unknown (Pan, 2001). Little research has been done on variable selection for generalized estimating equations (GEE, Liang and Zeger, 1986) and similar correlated data approaches. This thesis will review existing work on model selection for GEE and propose new model selection options for GEE, as well as for a more sophisticated marginal mod- eling approach based on quadratic inference functions (QIF, Qu, Lindsay, and Li, 2000), which has better asymptotic properties than classic GEE. The focus is on selection using continuous penalties such as LASSO (Tibshirani, 1996) or SCAD (Fan and Li, 2001) rather than the older discrete penalties such as AIC and BIC. The asymptotic normality and efficiency (in the sense of the oracle property) of SCAD are demonstrated for penalized GEE and for penalized QIF, with the SCAD and similar penalties. This is demonstrated both in a fixed-dimensional and a growing-dimensional scenario.

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Work Title Penalized Quadratic Inference Functions for Variable Selection in Longitudinal Research
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  1. John Dziak
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  1. SCAD, LASSO, GEE, QIF, smoothly clipped absolute deviation, least absolute shrinkage and selection operator, generalized estimating equations, quadratic inference functions
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  1. John Dziak
Publication Date 2006
Deposited September 28, 2012

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