C-TMLE for continuous tuning
Résumé
Robust inference of a low-dimensional parameter in a large semi-parametric model relies on external estimators of infinite-dimensional features of the distribution of the data. Typically, only one of the latter is optimized for the sake of constructing a well behaved estimator of the low-dimensional parameter of interest. Optimizing more than one of them for the sake of achieving a better bias-variance trade-off in the estimation of the parameter of interest is the core idea driving the general template of the collaborative targeted minimum loss-based estimation (C-TMLE) procedure. This chapter discusses an implementation/instantiation of the C-TMLE procedure where the optimization is carried out over a set of continuous tuning parameters, like for instance a regularization parameter in a lasso penalty. Under mild assumptions, the resulting TMLE estimator remains asymptotically linear and Gaussian, allowing the construction of confidence regions of given asymptotic levels.
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Est décrite par hal-03934919 Chapitre d'ouvrage Mark van der Laan, Antoine Chambaz, Cheng Ju. C-TMLE for Continuous Tuning. Targeted Learning in Data Science, Springer International Publishing, pp.143-161, 2018, Springer Series in Statistics, ⟨10.1007/978-3-319-65304-4_10⟩. ⟨hal-03934919⟩