Zhong, WenxuanZhang, TingtingZhu, YuLiu, Jun2017-08-072012Zhong, Wenxuan, Tingting Zhang, Yu Zhu, and Jun S. Liu. 2012. “Correlation Pursuit: Forward Stepwise Variable Selection for Index Models.” Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series B (Statistical Methodology) 74 (5) (April 12): 849–870. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9868.2011.01026.x.1369-7412http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:33719925A stepwise procedure, correlation pursuit (COP), is developed for variable selection under the sufficient dimension reduction framework, in which the response variable Y is influenced by the predictors inline image through an unknown function of a few linear combinations of them. Unlike linear stepwise regression, COP does not impose a special form of relationship (such as linear) between the response variable and the predictor variables. The COP procedure selects variables that attain the maximum correlation between the transformed response and the linear combination of the variables. Various asymptotic properties of the COP procedure are established and, in particular, its variable selection performance under a diverging number of predictors and sample size is investigated. The excellent empirical performance of the COP procedure in comparison with existing methods is demonstrated by both extensive simulation studies and a real example in functional genomics.en-USDimension reduction; Projection pursuit regression; Sliced inverse regression; Stepwise regression; Variable selectionJournal Article2014-02-24Jun Liu10.1111/j.1467-9868.2011.01026.x