Machine learning methods that economists should know about

S Athey, GW Imbens - Annual Review of Economics, 2019 - annualreviews.org
We discuss the relevance of the recent machine learning (ML) literature for economics and
econometrics. First we discuss the differences in goals, methods, and settings between the …

An overview of variable selection methods in multivariate analysis of near-infrared spectra

YH Yun, HD Li, BC Deng, DS Cao - TrAC Trends in Analytical Chemistry, 2019 - Elsevier
With the advances in innovative instrumentation and various valuable applications, near-
infrared (NIR) spectroscopy has become a mature analytical technique in various fields …

Robust Wasserstein profile inference and applications to machine learning

J Blanchet, Y Kang, K Murthy - Journal of Applied Probability, 2019 - cambridge.org
We show that several machine learning estimators, including square-root least absolute
shrinkage and selection and regularized logistic regression, can be represented as …

Experimenting with measurement error: Techniques with applications to the caltech cohort study

B Gillen, E Snowberg, L Yariv - Journal of Political Economy, 2019 - journals.uchicago.edu
Measurement error is ubiquitous in experimental work. It leads to imperfect statistical
controls, attenuated estimated effects of elicited behaviors, and biased correlations between …

Information-based optimal subdata selection for big data linear regression

HY Wang, M Yang, J Stufken - Journal of the American Statistical …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Extraordinary amounts of data are being produced in many branches of science. Proven
statistical methods are no longer applicable with extraordinary large datasets due to …

Sparse signals in the cross‐section of returns

A Chinco, AD Clark‐Joseph, M Ye - The Journal of Finance, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
This paper applies the Least Absolute Shrinkage and Selection Operator (LASSO) to make
rolling one‐minute‐ahead return forecasts using the entire cross‐section of lagged returns …

Lasso meets horseshoe

A Bhadra, J Datta, NG Polson, B Willard - Statistical Science, 2019 - JSTOR
The goal of this paper is to contrast and survey the major advances in two of the most
commonly used high-dimensional techniques, namely, the Lasso and horseshoe …

Implicit regularization for optimal sparse recovery

T Vaskevicius, V Kanade… - Advances in Neural …, 2019 - proceedings.neurips.cc
We investigate implicit regularization schemes for gradient descent methods applied to
unpenalized least squares regression to solve the problem of reconstructing a sparse signal …

High-dimensional LASSO-based computational regression models: regularization, shrinkage, and selection

F Emmert-Streib, M Dehmer - Machine Learning and Knowledge …, 2019 - mdpi.com
Regression models are a form of supervised learning methods that are important for
machine learning, statistics, and general data science. Despite the fact that classical …

Dynamic pricing in high-dimensions

A Javanmard, H Nazerzadeh - Journal of Machine Learning Research, 2019 - jmlr.org
We study the pricing problem faced by a firm that sells a large number of products, described
via a wide range of features, to customers that arrive over time. Customers independently …