Lecture 5 Flashcards

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What is a necessary and sufficient condition for beta hat to be a solution of a Lasso regression?

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What is the Lasso is a piecewise linear for linear model theorem?

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What is shown in this graph? What does this imply?

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What is the idea of density estimation?

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What is the advantage of not making an assuption of the distribution? How can we then estimate the density?

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What is the effect of h in kernel density estimation?

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Why does Lambda have to be chosen for Lasso? (i.e. what problem does Lasso overcome, that introduces a new problem)

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What are the four steps of cross validation? What does this procedure create the best estimation for?

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