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通过倾向得分加权平衡协变量AI 解读

Covariate balance is crucial for unconfounded descriptive or causal comparisons. However, lack of balance is common in observational studies. This article considers weighting strategies for balancing covariates. We define a general class of weights—the balancing weights—that balance the weighted distributions of the covariates between treatment groups. These weights incorporate the propensity score to weight each group to an analyst-selected target population. This class…

利用简短筛查量表估计学校层面的精神疾病患病率AI 解读

We use data collected in the National Comorbidity Survey - Adolescent (NCS-A) to develop a methodology to estimate the small-area prevalence of serious emotional distress (SED) in schools in the United States, exploiting the clustering of the main NCS-A sample by school. The NCS-A instrument includes both a short screening scale, the K6, and extensive diagnostic assessments of the individual disorders and associated impairment that determine the diagnosis of SED. We fitted a…

结构性无应答下多层调查数据的域级协方差分析AI 解读

Health care quality surveys in the United States are administered to individual respondents (i.e., hospital patients, health plan members) to evaluate the performance of health care organizations (i.e., hospitals, health plans), which thus constitute estimation domains. For better understanding and more parsimonious reporting of dimensions of quality, we analyze relationships among quality measures at the domain level. Rather than specifying a full parametric model for the…

单观测无偏先验AI 解读

This paper studies a class of default priors, which we call single observation unbiased priors (SOUP). A prior for a parameter is a SOUP if the corresponding posterior mean of the parameter based on a single observation is an unbiased estimator of the parameter. We prove that, under mild regularity conditions, a default prior for a convolution parameter is "noninformative" in the sense of yielding a posterior inference invariant under amalgamation only if it is a SOUP.…

含“未回答”响应的顾客满意度有序数据分层潜变量模型AI 解读

We propose an item response theory model for ordinal customer satisfaction data where the probability of each response is a function of latent person and question parameters and of cutoffs for the ordinal response categories. This structure was incorporated into a Bayesian hierarchical model by Albert and Chib. We extend this formulation by modeling item nonresponse, coded as “no answer” (NA), as due to either lack of a strong opinion or indifference to the entire question.…

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随机缺失观测下马尔可夫依赖二元序列的经验贝叶斯模型AI 解读

We develop an improved empirical Bayes estimation methodology for the analysis of two-state Markov chains observed from heterogeneous individuals. First, the two transition probabilities corresponding to each chain are assumed to be drawn from a common, bivariate distribution that has beta marginals. Second, randomly missing observations are incorporated into the likelihood for the hyperparameters by efficiently summing over all possible values for the missing observations.…

随机缺失的马尔可夫依赖二元序列的经验贝叶斯模型AI 解读

We develop an improved empirical Bayes estimation methodology for the analysis of two-state Markov chains observed from heterogeneous individuals. First, the two transition probabilities corresponding to each chain are assumed to be drawn from a common, bivariate distribution that has beta marginals. Second, randomly missing observations are incorporated into the likelihood for the hyperparameters by efficiently summing over all possible values for the missing observations.…

漏计估计中未确定登记状态插补的层级逻辑回归模型AI 解读

In the process of collecting Post-Enumeration Survey (PES) data to evaluate census coverage, it is inevitable that there will be some individuals whose enumeration status (outcome in the census-PES match) remains unresolved even after extensive field follow-up operations. Earlier work developed a logistic regression framework for imputing the probability that unresolved individuals were enumerated in the census, so that the probability of having been enumerated is allowed to…