چکيده
Abstract : In recent years, due to the availability of advanced technology, we have witnessed the rise of large scale data, colloquially referred to as big data, in different fields of scientific research, ranging from biology and medicine to engineering, the social sciences and financial econometrics. A common statistical problem of interest in the analysis of such data is to model a response variable of interest as a function of a small subset of a large number of potential features (covariates).I