In this paper, we introduce a two-step procedure, in the context of high dimensional additive models, to identify nonzero linear and nonlinear components. We first develop a sure independence screening procedure based on the distance correlation between predictors and marginal distribution function of the response variable to reduce the dimensionality of the feature space to a moderate scale. Then a double penalization based procedure is applied to identify nonzero and linear components, simultaneously. We conduct extensive simulation experiments and a real data analysis to evaluate the numerical performance of the proposed method.

This paper considers the problem of simultaneous variable selection and estimation in a semiparametric mixed-effects model for longitudinal data with normal errors. We approximate the nonparametric function by regression spline and simultaneously estimate and select the variables under the optimization of the penalized objective function. Under some regularity conditions, the asymptotic behaviour of the resulting estimators is established in a high-dimensional framework where the number of parametric covariates increases as the sample size increases. For practical implementation, we use an EM algorithm to selects the significant variables and estimates the nonzero coefficient functions. Simulation studies are carried out to assess the performance of our proposed method, and a real data set is analyzed to illustrate the proposed procedure.