Asymptotics for estimating a diverging number of parameters -- with and without sparsity
参数数量发散时的估计渐近理论:稀疏与非稀疏情形
We develop a general asymptotic theory for estimating equations whose dimension diverges with the sample size. For both unpenalized and sparse penalized problems, we establish population-level conditions for existence, consistency, uniqueness, and asymptotic normality; in the penalized setting, we also establish selection consistency under a generalized version of the mutual incoherence condition. Our results cover stepwise procedures with a diverging number of steps,…