sdwd-package: Sparse Distance Weighted Discrimination
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This package implements the generalized coordinate descent (GCD) algorithm to efficiently compute the solution path of the sparse distance weighted discrimination (DWD) at a given fine grid of regularization parameters. Sparse distance weighted discrimination is a high-dimensional margin-based classifier.

Package:	sdwd
Type:	Package
Version:	1.0.3
Date:	2020-02-16
License:	GPL-2

Suppose x is the predictors and y is the binary response. With a fixed value lambda2, the package produces the solution path of the sparse DWD over a grid of lambda values. The value of lambda2 can be further tuned by cross-validation.

The package sdwd contains five main functions:
sdwd
cv.sdwd
coef.sdwd
plot.sdwd
plot.cv.sdwd

Boxiang Wang and Hui Zou
Maintainer: Boxiang Wang boxiang-wang@uiowa.edu

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