huber.lasso: Huber-Lasso estimator

In MTE: Maximum Tangent Likelihood Estimation for Robust Linear Regression and Variable Selection

Huber-Lasso estimator

Description

This function is L1 penalized Huber estimator for linear regression under both fixed and high-dimensional settings. Currently, the function does not support automatic selection of huber tuning parameter.

Usage

huber.lasso(
  X,
  y,
  beta.ini,
  lambda,
  alpha = 2,
  adaptive = TRUE,
  intercept = TRUE,
  penalty.factor = rep(1, ncol(X))
)

Arguments

X	design matrix, standardization is recommended.
y	response vector.
beta.ini	initial estimates of beta. If not specified, LADLasso estimates from rq.lasso.fit() in rqPen is used. Otherwise, robust estimators are strongly recommended.
lambda	regularization parameter of Lasso or adaptive Lasso (if adaptive=TRUE).
alpha	1/alpha is the huber tuning parameter. Larger alpha results in smaller portion of squared loss.
adaptive	logical input that indicates if adaptive Lasso is used. Default is TRUE.
intercept	logical input that indicates if intercept needs to be estimated. Default is FALSE.
penalty.factor	can be used to force nonzero coefficients. Default is rep(1, ncol(X)) as in glmnet.

Value

beta	the regression coefficient estimates.
fitted	predicted response.
iter.steps	iteration steps.

Examples

set.seed(2017)
n=200; d=500
X=matrix(rnorm(n*d), nrow=n, ncol=d)
beta=c(rep(2,6), rep(0, d-6))
y=X%*%beta+c(rnorm(150), rnorm(30,10,10), rnorm(20,0,100))
output.HuberLasso=huber.lasso(X,y)
beta.est=output.HuberLasso$beta

MTE documentation built on June 8, 2025, 12:58 p.m.