Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/193375 
Year of Publication: 
2019
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 12081
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This article introduces lassopack, a suite of programs for regularized regression in Stata. lassopack implements lasso, square-root lasso, elastic net, ridge regression, adaptive lasso and post-estimation OLS. The methods are suitable for the high-dimensional setting where the number of predictors p may be large and possibly greater than the number of observations, n. We offer three different approaches for selecting the penalization ('tuning') parameters: information criteria (implemented in lasso2), K-fold cross-validation and h-step ahead rolling cross-validation for cross-section, panel and time-series data (cvlasso), and theory-driven ('rigorous') penalization for the lasso and square-root lasso for cross-section and panel data (rlasso). We discuss the theoretical framework and practical considerations for each approach. We also present Monte Carlo results to compare the performance of the penalization approaches.
Subjects: 
lasso2
cvlasso
rlasso
lasso
elastic net
square-root lasso
cross-validation
JEL: 
C53
C55
C87
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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