Valid confidence intervals for post-model-selection predictors

Abstract

We consider inference post-model-selection in linear regression. In this setting, Berk et al. [Ann. Statist. 41 (2013a) 802–837] recently introduced a class of confidence sets, the so-called PoSI intervals, that cover a certain nonstandard quantity of interest with a user-specified minimal coverage probability, irrespective of the model selection procedure that is being used. In this paper, we generalize the PoSI intervals to confidence intervals for post-model-selection predictors.