savvySh: Slab and Shrinkage Linear Regression Estimation

Implements a suite of shrinkage estimators for multivariate linear regression to improve estimation stability and predictive accuracy. Provides methods including the Stein estimator, Diagonal Shrinkage, the general Shrinkage estimator (solving a Sylvester equation), and Slab Regression (Simple and Generalized). These methods address Stein's paradox by introducing structured bias to reduce variance without requiring cross-validation, except for 'ShrinkageRR' where the intensity is chosen by minimizing an explicit Mean Squared Error (MSE) criterion. Methods are based on Asimit, V., Cidota, M. A., Chen, Z., and Asimit, J. (2025) <https://openaccess.city.ac.uk/id/eprint/35005/>.

Version: 0.1.1
Depends: R (≥ 3.6.0)
Imports: Matrix, glmnet, MASS, expm, mnormt, stats
Suggests: knitr, rmarkdown, testthat (≥ 3.0.0)
Published: 2026-03-08
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.savvySh
Author: Ziwei Chen ORCID iD [aut, cre], Vali Asimit ORCID iD [aut], Marina Anca Cidota ORCID iD [aut], Jennifer Asimit ORCID iD [aut]
Maintainer: Ziwei Chen <Ziwei.Chen.3 at citystgeorges.ac.uk>
BugReports: https://github.com/ziwei-chenchen/savvySh/issues
License: GPL (≥ 3)
URL: https://ziwei-chenchen.github.io/savvySh/
NeedsCompilation: no
Materials: README
CRAN checks: savvySh results

Documentation:

Reference manual: savvySh.html , savvySh.pdf
Vignettes: 'savvySh': Shrinkage Methods for Linear Regression Estimation (source, R code)

Downloads:

Package source: savvySh_0.1.1.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: savvySh_0.1.0.zip, r-release: savvySh_0.1.0.zip, r-oldrel: savvySh_0.1.1.zip
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): savvySh_0.1.1.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): savvySh_0.1.1.tgz, r-release (x86_64): savvySh_0.1.0.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): savvySh_0.1.0.tgz
Old sources: savvySh archive

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