Fall Seminar Series  September 14, 2006
University of Minnesota
School of Statistics
College of Liberal Arts 

Localized Model Selection/Combination

Yuhong Yang
School of Statistics
University of Minnesota

Thursday, September 14, 2006
3:30 PM, 115 Ford Hall
Minneapolis, East Bank Campus
Social at 3:00 PM, 300 Ford Hall

 

Abstract

Research on model (or procedure) selection/combining in statistical learning has focused on selecting/combining models globally. In many applications, especially for high-dimensional or complex data, however, the relative performance of the candidate procedures typically depends on the location, and the globally best procedure can often be much improved when selection/combination of procedures is allowed to depend on location. We develop methods for localized model selection/combining and derive their theoretical properties.