Covariate Selection in High-Dimensional Generalized Linear Models With Measurement Error

• Published in: arXiv.org
• Main Authors: Sørensen, Øystein, Frigessi, Arnoldo, Thoresen, Magne
• Format: Paper Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Ithaca Cornell University Library, arXiv.org 03.07.2014
• Subjects: Algorithms; Computer simulation; Covariance matrix; Error analysis; Error correction; Estimating techniques; Gene expression; Generalized linear models; Mathematical analysis; Matrix methods; Measurement methods; Poisson density functions; Statistical analysis; Statistical models; Statistics - Methodology; Uncertainty
• ISSN: 2331-8422
• DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.1407.1070

In many problems involving generalized linear models, the covariates are subject to measurement error. When the number of covariates p exceeds the sample size n, regularized methods like the lasso or Dantzig selector are required. Several recent papers have studied methods which correct for measurement error in the lasso or Dantzig selector for linear models in the p>n setting. We study a correction for generalized linear models based on Rosenbaum and Tsybakov's matrix uncertainty selector. By not requiring an estimate of the measurement error covariance matrix, this generalized matrix uncertainty selector has a great practical advantage in problems involving high-dimensional data. We further derive an alternative method based on the lasso, and develop efficient algorithms for both methods. In our simulation studies of logistic and Poisson regression with measurement error, the proposed methods outperform the standard lasso and Dantzig selector with respect to covariate selection, by reducing the number of false positives considerably. We also consider classification of patients on the basis of gene expression data with noisy measurements.