Cross-Fitted Residual Regression for High-Dimensional Heteroscedasticity Pursuit

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Zhou, Le; Zou, Hui
• 署名单位: University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN STATISTICAL ASSOCIATION
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0162-1459
• DOI: 10.1080/01621459.2021.1970570
• 发表日期: 2023
• 页码: 1056-1065
• 关键词: nonconcave penalized likelihood; variable selection; DANTZIG SELECTOR; Lasso

摘要

There is a vast amount of work on high-dimensional regression. The common starting point for the existing theoretical work is to assume the data generating model is a homoscedastic linear regression model with some sparsity structure. In reality the homoscedasticity assumption is often violated, and hence understanding the heteroscedasticity of the data is of critical importance. In this article we systematically study the estimation of a high-dimensional heteroscedastic regression model. In particular, the emphasis is on how to detect and estimate the heteroscedasticity effects reliably and efficiently. To this end, we propose a cross-fitted residual regression approach and prove the resulting estimator is selection consistent for heteroscedasticity effects and establish its rates of convergence. Our estimator has tuning parameters to be determined by the data in practice. We propose a novel high-dimensional BIC for tuning parameter selection and establish its consistency. This is the first high-dimensional BIC result under heteroscedasticity. The theoretical analysis is more involved in order to handle heteroscedasticity, and we develop a couple of interesting new concentration inequalities that are of independent interests.