论文检索

动态处理效应评估的非参数工具变量方法AI 解读

We develop an instrumental variable approach for identification of dynamic treatment effects on survival outcomes in the presence of dynamic selection, noncompliance, and right-censoring. The approach is nonparametric and does not require independence of observed and unobserved characteristics or separability assumptions. We propose estimation procedures and derive asymptotic properties. We apply our approach to evaluate a policy reform in which the pathway of unemployment…

网络干扰下的处理效应与溢出效应AI 解读

We study nonparametric and regression estimators of treatment and spillover effects when interference is mediated by a network. Inference is nonstandard due to dependence induced by treatment spillovers and network-correlated effects. We derive restrictions on the network degree distribution under which the estimators are consistent and asymptotically normal and show they can be verified under a strategic model of network formation. We also construct consistent variance…

事件发生时间数据中的社会网络依赖检验与估计AI 解读

Nowadays, events are spread rapidly along social networks. We are interested in whether people's responses to an event are affected by their friends' characteristics. For example, how soon will a person start playing a game given that his/her friends like it? Studying social network dependence is an emerging research area. In this work, we propose a novel latent spatial autocorrelation Cox model to study social network dependence with time-to-event data. The proposed model…

以密度为响应的加性函数回归AI 解读

We propose and investigate additive density regression, a novel additive functional regression model for situations where the responses are random distributions that can be viewed as random densities and the predictors are vectors. Data in the form of samples of densities or distributions are increasingly encountered in statistical analysis and there is a need for flexible regression models that accommodate random densities as responses. Such models are of special interest…

函数型删失分位数回归AI 解读

We propose a functional censored quantile regression model to describe the time-varying relationship between time-to-event outcomes and corresponding functional covariates. The time-varying effect is modeled as an unspecified function that is approximated via B-splines. A generalized approximate cross-validation method is developed to select the number of knots by minimizing the expected loss. We establish asymptotic properties of the method and the knot selection procedure.…

用 V-learning 估计移动健康中的动态处理策略AI 解读

The vision for precision medicine is to use individual patient characteristics to inform a personalized treatment plan that leads to the best possible health-care for each patient. Mobile technologies have an important role to play in this vision as they offer a means to monitor a patient's health status in real-time and subsequently to deliver interventions if, when, and in the dose that they are needed. Dynamic treatment regimes formalize individualized treatment plans as…

两种含内生性的分位数模型比较AI 解读

This article studies the relationship between the two most-used quantile models with endogeneity: the instrumental variable quantile regression (IVQR) model (Chernozhukov and Hansen 2005) and the local quantile treatment effects (LQTE) model (Abadie, Angrist, and Imbens 2002). The key condition of the IVQR model is the rank similarity assumption, a restriction on the evolution of individual ranks across treatment states, under which population quantile treatment effects…

匹配调查与行政数据中的收入动态和测量误差AI 解读

This article analyzes earnings dynamics and measurement error using a matched longitudinal sample of individuals’ survey and administrative earnings. In line with previous literature, the reported differences are characterized by both persistent and transitory factors. Estimating a model consistent with past results, survey errors are mean-reverting when administrative reports are assumed correct, but not when this assumption is relaxed. Although most reported earnings…

处理状态与中介变量均内生的随机前沿模型AI 解读

Government policies are frequently used to promote productivity. Some policies are designed to enhance production technology, while others are meant to improve production efficiency. An important issue to consider when designing and evaluating policies is whether a mediator is required or effective in achieving the desired final outcome. To better understand and evaluate the policies, we propose a new stochastic frontier model with a treatment status and a mediator, both of…

条件外生匹配下平均匹配函数的识别与效率界AI 解读

Consider two heterogenous populations of agents who, when matched, jointly produce an output, Y. For example, teachers and classrooms of students together produce achievement, parents raise children, whose life outcomes vary in adulthood, assembly plant managers and workers produce a certain number of cars per month, and lieutenants and their platoons vary in unit effectiveness. Let W∈W={w1,…,wJ}$W\in \mathbb {W}=\lbrace w_{1},\ldots,w_{J}\rbrace $ and X∈X={x1,…,xK}$X\in \mathbb {X}=\lbrace x_{1},\ldots,x_{K}\rbrace $…

识别假设检验的警示：真人秀真的降低了青少年生育率吗？AI 解读

Evaluating policy changes that occur everywhere at the same time is difficult because of the lack of a clear counterfactual. Hoping to address this problem, researchers often proxy for differential exposure using some observed characteristic in the pretreatment period. As a cautionary tale of how difficult identification is in such settings, we re-examine the results of an influential paper by Melissa Kearney and Phillip Levine, who found that the MTV program 16 and Pregnant…

用于稀疏且具有重叠社区结构图的可交换随机测度AI 解读

Summary We propose a novel statistical model for sparse networks with overlapping community structure. The model is based on representing the graph as an exchangeable point process and naturally generalizes existing probabilistic models with overlapping block structure to the sparse regime. Our construction builds on vectors of completely random measures and has interpretable parameters, each node being assigned a vector representing its levels of affiliation to some latent…

分类未观测混杂下双重负控调整的多重稳健因果推断AI 解读

Summary Unmeasured confounding is a threat to causal inference in observational studies. In recent years, the use of negative controls to mitigate unmeasured confounding has gained increasing recognition and popularity. Negative controls have a long-standing tradition in laboratory sciences and epidemiology to rule out non-causal explanations, although they have been used primarily for bias detection. Recently, Miao and colleagues have described sufficient conditions under…

部分成对比较估计的最坏情形与平均情形设计AI 解读

Pairwise comparison data arises in many domains, including tournament rankings, web search and preference elicitation. Given noisy comparisons of a fixed subset of pairs of items, we study the problem of estimating the underlying comparison probabilities under the assumption of strong stochastic transitivity (SST). We also consider the noisy sorting subclass of the SST model. We show that when the assignment of items to the topology is arbitrary, these permutation-based…

多项 Logistic 模型的 D 最优设计AI 解读

We consider optimal designs for general multinomial logistic models, which cover baseline-category, cumulative, adjacent-categories and continuation-ratio logit models, with proportional odds, nonproportional odds or partial proportional odds assumption. We derive the corresponding Fisher information matrices in three different forms to facilitate their calculations, determine the conditions for their positive definiteness, and search for optimal designs. We conclude that,…

高维数据下正则化校准估计的处理效应模型辅助推断AI 解读

Consider the problem of estimating average treatment effects when a large number of covariates are used to adjust for possible confounding through outcome regression and propensity score models. We develop new methods and theory to obtain not only doubly robust point estimators for average treatment effects, which remain consistent if either the propensity score model or the outcome regression model is correctly specified, but also model-assisted confidence intervals, which…

Ising 模型参数的联合估计AI 解读

We study joint estimation of the inverse temperature and magnetization parameters $(\beta ,B)$ of an Ising model with a nonnegative coupling matrix $A_{n}$ of size $n\times n$, given one sample from the Ising model. We give a general bound on the rate of consistency of the bi-variate pseudo-likelihood estimator. Using this, we show that estimation at rate $n^{-1/2}$ is always possible if $A_{n}$ is the adjacency matrix of a bounded degree graph. If $A_{n}$ is the scaled…

存在干扰的网络中处理效应估计的实验设计AI 解读

In this paper, we introduce new, easily implementable designs for drawing causal inference from randomized experiments on networks with interference. Inspired by the idea of matching in observational studies, we introduce the notion of considering a treatment assignment as a “quasi-coloring” on a graph. Our idea of a perfect quasi-coloring strives to match every treated unit on a given network with a distinct control unit that has identical number of treated and control…

大规模社会网络的多元空间自回归模型AI 解读

The rapid growth of social network platforms generates a large amount of social network data, where multivariate responses are frequently collected from users. To statistically model such type of data, the multivariate spatial autoregressive (MSAR) model is studied. To estimate the model, the quasi maximum likelihood estimator (QMLE) is obtained under certain technical conditions. However, it is found that the computational cost of QMLE is expensive. To fix this problem, a…

群组数过度设定的面板模型识别与估计AI 解读

We propose a simple and fast approach to identify and estimate the unknown group structure in panel models by adapting the M-estimation method. We consider both linear and nonlinear panel models where the regression coefficients are heterogeneous across groups but homogeneous within a group and the group membership is unknown to researchers. The main result of the paper is that under certain assumptions, our approach is able to provide uniformly consistent estimation as long…

利用短面板识别动态离散选择模型AI 解读

This paper analyzes the identification of flow payoffs and counterfactual choice probabilities (CCPs) in single-agent dynamic discrete choice models. We develop new results on non-stationary models where the time horizon for the agent extends beyond the length of the data (short panels). We show that counterfactual CCPs in short panels are identified when induced by temporary policy changes affecting payoffs, even though the utility flows are not. Counterfactual CCPs induced…

广义异方差变换回归模型的 n-预测AI 解读

Chen (2010) and Khan (2001) consider quantile regression estimation subject to general transformation that permits general heteroscedasticity, but the resulting conditional quantile predictors converge at rates slower than the parametric rate. In this paper, we consider the estimation of a general transformation model subject to a multiplicative form of heteroscedasticity. Our estimators for the finite dimensional parameters, the transformation function and the resulting…

对代理变量误差稳健的生产函数估计AI 解读

This paper proposes a new approach to the identification and estimation of production functions. It extends the literature on the structural estimation of production functions, which dates back to the seminal work of Olley and Pakes (1996), by relaxing the scalar-unobservable assumption about the proxy variables. The key additional assumption needed in the identification argument is the existence of two conditionally independent proxy variables. The proposed generalized…

连边形成指数模型的非参数识别AI 解读

We consider a dyadic link formation model with a homophily effect index and a degree heterogeneity index. We provide nonparametric identification results for the potentially nonparametric homophily effect function, the realizations of unobserved individual fixed effects and the unknown distribution of idiosyncratic shocks, up to normalization. We propose a novel form of scale normalization on an arbitrary interquantile range, which is not only theoretically general but also…