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Lasso vs. adaptive Lasso

LASSO and adaptive LASSO are two different things, right? (To me, the penalties look different, but I'm just checking whether I miss something.) When you generally speak about elastic net, is the ...
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What is the oracle property of an estimator?

What is the oracle property of an estimator? What modelling goals is the oracle property relevant for (predictive, explanatory, ...)? Both theoretically rigorous and (especially) intuitive ...
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