Nonparametric Additive Regression for High-Dimensional Group Testing Data

Abstract

Group testing has been verified as a cost-effective and time-efficient approach, where the individual samples are pooled with a predefined group size for subsequent testing. Recent research has explored the integration of covariate information to improve the modeling of the group testing data. While existing works for high-dimensional data primarily focus on parametric models, this study considers a more flexible generalized nonparametric additive model. Nonlinear components are approximated using B-splines and model estimation under the sparsity assumption is derived employing group lasso. Theoretical results demonstrate that our method selects the true model with a high probability and provides consistent estimates. Numerical studies are conducted to illustrate the good performance of our proposed method, using both simulated and real data.

Keywords

• group testing
• nonparametric regression
• variable selection
• measurement error