A Starting Note: A Historical Perspective in Lasso

Year 2021, Volume: 13 Issue: 1, 1 - 3, 03.09.2021

Mehmet Caner

https://doi.org/10.33818/ier.872633

Cited By: 1

Abstract

we provide history of lasso, and see new ventures and talk about key concept of debiased lasso. Lasso provided a good fit through sparse regression but did not deliver standard errors. The debiased lasso delivers.

Keywords

machine learning , supervised learning , nodewise

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