Petersen Ashley, Witten Daniela, Simon Noah
Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle WA 98195.
J Comput Graph Stat. 2016;25(4):1005-1025. doi: 10.1080/10618600.2015.1073155. Epub 2016 Nov 10.
We consider the problem of predicting an outcome variable using covariates that are measured on independent observations, in a setting in which additive, flexible, and interpretable fits are desired. We propose the (FLAM), in which each additive function is estimated to be piecewise constant with a small number of adaptively-chosen knots. FLAM is the solution to a convex optimization problem, for which a simple algorithm with guaranteed convergence to a global optimum is provided. FLAM is shown to be consistent in high dimensions, and an unbiased estimator of its degrees of freedom is proposed. We evaluate the performance of FLAM in a simulation study and on two data sets. Supplemental materials are available online, and the R package flam is available on CRAN.
我们考虑在需要进行加法、灵活且可解释拟合的情况下,使用在独立观测值上测量的协变量来预测结果变量的问题。我们提出了灵活加法模型(FLAM),其中每个加法函数被估计为具有少量自适应选择节点的分段常数。FLAM是一个凸优化问题的解,为此提供了一种保证收敛到全局最优的简单算法。结果表明,FLAM在高维情况下是一致的,并且提出了其自由度的无偏估计量。我们在模拟研究和两个数据集上评估了FLAM的性能。补充材料可在线获取,R包flam可在CRAN上获取。