Robust Model Structure Recovery for Ultra-High-Dimensional Varying-Coefficient Models

Abstract

As an important extension of the varying-coefficient model, the partially linear varying-coefficient model has been widely studied in the literature. It is vital that how to simultaneously eliminate the redundant covariates and separate the varying and nonzero constant coefficients for varying-coefficient models. In this paper, we consider the penalized composite quantile regression to explore the model structure of ultra-high-dimensional varying-coefficient models. Under some regularity conditions, we study the convergence rate and asymptotic normality of the oracle estimator and prove that, with probability approaching one, the oracle estimator is a local solution of the nonconvex penalized composite quantile regression. Simulation studies indicate that the novel method as well as the oracle method performs in both low dimension and high dimension cases. An environmental data application is also analyzed by utilizing the proposed procedure.

Keywords

Asymptotic properties / Composite quantile regression / Nonconvex penalty / Robust structure recovery / Ultra-high dimension

Funding

National Natural Science Foundation of China(11801168)

Natural Science Foundation of Hunan Province(2018JJ3322)

Scientific Research Fund of Hunan Provincial Education Department(18B024)

Discovery Grants(RGPIN-2018-06466)

National Statistical Science Research Project of China(2020LZ26)

Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province(ZR2019MA002)

RIGHTS & PERMISSIONS

School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China and Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature