Variable selection in the presence of nonignorable missing data
Speaker:
Jiwei Zhao, State University of New York at Buffalo
Date and Time:
Thursday, May 26, 2016 - 2:30pm to 3:00pm
Location:
Fields Institute, Room 230
Abstract:
Variable selection methods are well developed for a completely observed data set in the past two decades. In the presence of missing values, those methods need to be tailored to different missing data mechanisms. In this paper, we focus on a flexible and generally applicable missing data mechanism, which contains both ignorable and nonignorable missing data mechanism assumptions. We show how the regularization approach for variable selection can be adapted to the situation under this missing data mechanism. The computational and theoretical properties for variable selection consistency are established. The proposed method is further illustrated by comprehensive simulation studies, for both low and high dimensional settings.