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Lassopack: model selection and prediction with regularized regression in Stata

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Ahrens, Achim, Hansen, Christian B., Schaffer, Mark E.·2020·The Stata Journal Promoting communications on statistics and Stata

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In this article, we introduce lassopack, a suite of programs for regularized regression in Stata. lassopack implements lasso, square-root lasso, elastic net, ridge regression, adaptive lasso, and postestimation ordinary least squares. 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 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” or plugin) 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 performances of the penalization approaches.

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  • Lasso shrinkage avoids overestimation of coefficients and provides more appropriate (i.e. generalisable) predictions where multiple correlated variables are included in the model.

    “Importantly for the present study, shrinkage of the coefficients avoids their overestimation and provides more appropriate (i.e. generalisable) predictions where multiple correlated variables are included in the model”

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    The Introduction (p. 2) says shrinkage tends to improve out-of-sample prediction by reducing overfitting, and the Elastic net section (p. 7) discusses lasso with correlated regressors. But the paper does not say shrinkage avoids overestimation of coefficients; it says shrinkage induces bias, and describes the prediction benefit as a tendency rather than a guarantee. (LLM, conf=0.88)

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  1. Tikhonov, A. N. 1963. On the solution of ill-posed problems and the method of regularization. In Doklady Akademii Nauk , vol. 151, 501-504. Russian Academy of Sciences.
  2. . 2006. Comparing learning methods for classification. Statistica Sinica 16(2): 635-657. https://www.jstor.org/stable/24307562.

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Authors
Ahrens, A., Hansen, C. B., & Schaffer, M. E.
Affiliations
  • Economic and Social Research Institute (IE)
  • University of Chicago (US)
  • Heriot-Watt University (GB)
Venue
The Stata Journal Promoting communications on statistics and Stata
Published
2020-03
Volume
20
Issue
1
Pages
176-235
ISSN
  • 1536-867X (ISSN-L)
  • 1536-8734
OpenAlex
W2910950436
Cited by
212
References
75
Citations by year
2026: 19 · 2025: 36 · 2024: 35 · 2023: 33 · 2022: 30 · 2021: 35 · 2020: 19 · 2019: 5
FWCI
20.79
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
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  • The Stata Journal Promoting communications on statistics and Stata (publishedVersion)
  • RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
  • arXiv (Cornell University) (submittedVersion)
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  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • AgEcon Search (University of Minnesota, USA)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Mathematics › Statistics and Probability › Statistical Methods and Inference
  • Physical Sciences › Mathematics › Statistics and Probability › Advanced Statistical Methods and Models
  • Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › Spatial and Panel Data Analysis
Keywords
penalized regression, LASSO, square-root Lasso, elastic net, ridge regression, adaptive LASSO, high-dimensional data, model selection, hyperparameter optimization, information criteria, cross-validation, postestimation, Stata software

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