LARS stands for Least Angle Regression. It is a feature selection technique for multiple regression that incorporates a penalty.

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What problem do shrinkage methods solve?

The holiday season has given me the opportunity to curl up next to the fire with The Elements of Statistical Learning. Coming from a (frequentist) econometrics perspective, I'm having trouble grasping ...