Directional regression is an effective sufficient dimension reduction method which implicitly synthesizes the first two conditional moments. In this paper, we extend directional regression to a general family of estimators via the notion of general empirical directions. Data-driven method is...

Sufficient dimension reduction aims at finding transformations of predictor X without losing any regression information of Y versus X. If we are only interested in the information contained in the mean function or the kth moment function of Y given X, estimation of the central mean space or the...

Specifying the structural dimension is an important first step for the sufficient dimension reduction methodology. Based on the popular sequential test approach, we propose a novel test statistic via directional regression to determine the structural dimension in this paper.

Dimension reduction in semiparametric regressions includes construction of informative linear combinations and selection of contributing predictors. To reduce the predictor dimension in semiparametric regressions, we propose an ℓ₁-minimization of sliced inverse regression with the Dantzig...

Many classical dimension reduction methods, especially those based on inverse conditional moments, require the predictors to have elliptical distributions, or at least to satisfy a linearity condition. Such conditions, however, are too strong for some applications. Li and Dong (2009) introduced...

In the context of sufficient dimension reduction, the goal is to parsimoniously recover the central subspace of a regression model. Many inverse regression methods use slicing estimation to recover the central subspace. The efficacy of slicing estimation depends heavily upon the number of...

This article is concerned with screening features in ultrahigh-dimensional data analysis, which has become increasingly important in diverse scientific fields. We develop a sure independence screening procedure based on the distance correlation (DC-SIS). The DC-SIS can be implemented as easily...

We provide a novel and completely different approach to dimension-reduction problems from the existing literature. We cast the dimension-reduction problem in a semiparametric estimation framework and derive estimating equations. Viewing this problem from the new angle allows us to derive a rich...