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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Dec 22.
Published in final edited form as: Biometrics. 2015 Dec 21;72(3):731–741. doi: 10.1111/biom.12464

Table 3.

Simulation results comparing model selection procedures. Table entries include the median model error (ME), false positive (FP) rate, and false negative (FN) rate. Cost-scale coefficient estimation is a function of the calibration coefficient vector.

n σ Regression & Variable Selection Procedures Calibration Coefficients Time-scale Estimates Cost-scale Estimates
ME FP FN ME FP FN
60 3 Unregularized ϑ̂0 1.65 1.00 0 2.39 1.00 0
Oracles ϑ̂𝒜 0.48 0 0 0.64 0 0
Time-scale only ϑ̂λ 1.47 0.17 0.34 - - -
Cost- & time-scale ϑ̃λ 1.33 0.31 0.22 1.80 0.38 0.04
Cost-scale only ϑ0 0 0 0 1.68 0.39 0.04
ϑ̂𝒜 0.48 0 0 1.65 0.38 0.05
ϑ̂0 1.65 1.00 0 1.70 0.37 0.04
60 1 Unregularized ϑ̂0 0.19 1.00 0 0.22 1.00 0
Oracles ϑ̂𝒜 0.06 0 0 0.06 0 0
Time-scale only ϑ̂λ 0.10 0.14 0 - - -
Cost- & time-scale ϑ̃λ 0.10 0.19 0 0.21 0.23 0
Cost-scale only ϑ0 0 0 0 0.14 0.09 0
ϑ̂𝒜 0.06 0 0 0.12 0.11 0
ϑ̂0 0.19 1.00 0 0.10 0.10 0
90 1 Unregularized ϑ̂0 0.09 1.00 0 0.15 1.00 0
Oracles ϑ̂𝒜 0.03 0 0 0.05 0.00 0
Time-scale only ϑ̂λ 0.04 0.07 0 - - -
Cost- & time-scale ϑ̃λ 0.06 0.14 0 0.14 0.19 0
Cost-scale only ϑ0 0 0 0 0.07 0.03 0
ϑ̂𝒜 0.03 0 0 0.07 0.04 0
ϑ̂0 0.09 1.00 0 0.06 0.04 0