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ArticleJournal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series B, Statistical methodology2025

A statistical view of column subset selection.

Anav Sood, Trevor Hastie

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Article in Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series B, Statistical methodology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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  2. Principal variables analysis for non-Gaussian data.Journal of computational and graphical statistics : a joint publication of American Statistical Association, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, Interface Foundation of North America · 2025
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2 authors.

Anav SoodDepartment of Statistics, Stanford University, Sequoia Hall, 390 Jane Stanford Way, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-0833-1237
Trevor HastieDepartment of Statistics, Stanford University, Sequoia Hall, 390 Jane Stanford Way, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.

Funding

New Statistical Methods for Medical Signals and ImagesR01EB001988 · NIBIB · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI JOHNSTONE, IAIN M · 2003 to 2018
$6.1M
New Statistical Methods for Medical Signals and ImagesR01GM134483 · NIGMS · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI Iain M Johnstone · 2019 to 2026
$3.9M
NIBIB NIH HHS R01 EB001988NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM134483
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We consider the problem of selecting a small subset of representative variables from a large dataset. In the computer science literature, this dimensionality reduction problem is typically formalized as column subset selection (CSS). Meanwhile, the typical statistical formalization is to find an information-maximizing set of principal variables. This paper shows that these two approaches are equivalent, and moreover, both can be viewed as maximum-likelihood estimation within a certain semi-parametric model. Within this model, we establish suitable conditions under which the CSS estimate is consistent in high dimensions, specifically in the proportional asymptotic regime where the number of variables over the sample size converges to a constant. Using these connections, we show how to efficiently (1) perform CSS using only summary statistics from the original dataset; (2) perform CSS in the presence of missing and/or censored data; and (3) select the subset size for CSS in a hypothesis testing framework.

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column subset selectionhigh-dimensional statisticsinterpretable dimensionality reductionprincipal components analysisprincipal variablesprobabilistic modelling

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PMID40717891
PMCPMC12288642

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