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Elastic Net Model

Regularized regression that blends LASSO selection with ridge shrinkage for correlated predictor blocks.

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    Zou and Hastie (2005) -- introduced the elastic net, proved the grouped selection property, and showed the naive elastic net's double shrinkage problem

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    Friedman, Hastie, Tibshirani (2010) -- glmnet coordinate descent algorithm making elastic net computationally practical for large-scale problems

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    Zou and Zhang (2009) -- adaptive elastic net achieving oracle properties under weaker conditions than adaptive LASSO

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    De Mol, Giannone, Reichlin (2008) -- Bayesian interpretation of elastic net in macro forecasting with many predictors

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    Gu, Kelly, Xiu (2020) -- empirical horse race showing elastic net competitive with neural networks for asset return prediction

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