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Seminar: Mehmet Caner

Mehmet Caner
October 5, 2017
All Day
209 W Eighteenth Ave (EA), Room 170

Title

Asymptotically Honest Confidence Regions for High Dimensional Parameters by the Desparsified Conservative Lasso, with Anders Breadhl Kock (Oxford Univ UK).

Speaker

Mehmet Caner, Department of Economics, The Ohio State University

Abstract

In this paper we consider the conservative Lasso which we argue penalizes more correctly than the Lasso and show how it may be desparsified in the sense of van de Geer etal (2014) in order to construct asymptotically honest (uniform) confidence bands. In particular, we develop an oracle inequality for the conservative Lasso only assuming the existence of a certain number of moments. This is done by means of the Marcinkiewicz-Zygmund inequality. We allow for heteroskedastic non-subgaussian error terms and covariates. Next, we desparsify the conservative Lasso estimator and derive the asymptotic distribution of tests involving an increasing number of parameters. Our simulations reveal that the desparsified conservative Lasso estimates the parameters more precisely than the desparsified Lasso, has better size properties and produces confidence bands with superior coverage rates.

 

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