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Sparsity Oriented Importance Learning for High-dimensional Linear Regression
With now well-recognized non-negligible model selection uncertainty, data
analysts should no longer be satisfied with the output of a single final model
from a model selection process, regardless of its sophistication. To improve
reliability and reproducibility in model choice, one constructive approach is
to make good use of a sound variable importance measure. Although interesting
importance measures are available and increasingly used in data analysis,
little theoretical justification has been done. In this paper, we propose a new
variable importance measure, sparsity oriented importance learning (SOIL), for
high-dimensional regression from a sparse linear modeling perspective by taking
into account the variable selection uncertainty via the use of a sensible model
weighting. The SOIL method is theoretically shown to have the
inclusion/exclusion property: When the model weights are properly around the
true model, the SOIL importance can well separate the variables in the true
model from the rest. In particular, even if the signal is weak, SOIL rarely
gives variables not in the true model significantly higher important values
than those in the true model. Extensive simulations in several illustrative
settings and real data examples with guided simulations show desirable
properties of the SOIL importance in contrast to other importance measures
Nonlinear pricing, market coverage, and competition
This paper considers a nonlinear pricing framework with both horizontally and vertically differentiated products. By endogenizing the set of consumers served in the market, we are able to study how increased competition affects nonlinear pricing, in particular the market coverage and quality distortions. We characterize the symmetric equilibrium menu of price-quality offers under different market structures. When the market structure moves from monopoly to duopoly, we show that more types of consumers are served and quality distortions decrease. As the market structure becomes more competitive, the effect of increased competition exhibits some non-monotonic features: when the initial competition is not too weak, a further increase in the number of firms leads to more types of consumers being covered and a reduction in quality distortions; when the initial competition is weak, an increase in the number of firms leads to fewer types of consumers being covered, though the effect on quality distortions is not uniform.Nonlinear pricing, product differentiation, market coverage, quality distortions
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