Communication-Efficient Distributed Estimator for Generalized Linear Models with a Diverging Number of Covariates

01/17/2020
by   Ping Zhou, et al.
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Distributed statistical inference has recently attracted immense attention. Herein, we study the asymptotic efficiency of the maximum likelihood estimator (MLE), the one-step MLE, and the aggregated estimating equation estimator for generalized linear models with a diverging number of covariates. Then a novel method is proposed to obtain an asymptotically efficient estimator for large-scale distributed data by two rounds of communication between local machines and the central server. The assumption on the number of machines in this paper is more relaxed and thus practical for real-world applications. Simulations and a case study demonstrate the satisfactory finite-sample performance of the proposed estimators.

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