Stable Variable Selection with Knockoffs

Stable Variable Selection with Knockoffs

Neyman Seminar
Feb 8, 2023, 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM | 1011 Evans Hall | Happening As Scheduled
Zhimei Ren, University of Chicago

A common problem in many modern statistical applications is to find a set of important variables—from a pool of many candidates—that explain the response of interest. For this task, model-X knockoffs offers a general framework that can leverage any feature importance measure to produce a variable selection algorithm: it discovers true effects while rigorously controlling the number or fraction of...