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基于偏 Gini 协方差的重尾误差高维线性模型稳健推断AI 解读

This paper introduces a novel robust high-dimensional inference framework based on partial Gini covariance. We specifically address the practically important problem of quantifying how changes in features affect the conditional mean in high-dimensional linear regression when the random noises are heavy-tailed and possibly asymmetric. Conventional high-dimensional regression inference methods suffer from inaccurate type I errors and reduced power in heavy-tailed contexts.…

跨疾病临床治疗指标的关联：基于 SEER-Medicare 的深度神经网络分析AI 解读

In outcomes research, clinical treatment measures are routinely analyzed. Most existing studies focus on individual diseases, and increasing recent evidence suggests that clinical treatment measures of different diseases can be “correlated” (or interconnected). Existing studies on such interconnections are usually limited to a small number of diseases. In this study, for U.S. older patients with common cancers, we complement the existing literature and conduct a pan-disease…

依赖结构下的聚类后推断AI 解读

Recent work by Gao et al. (2024) has laid the foundations for post-clustering inference, establishing a theoretical framework allowing to test for differences between means of estimated clusters. Additionally, they studied the estimation of unknown parameters while controlling the selective type I error. However, their theory was developed for independent observations identically distributed as p-dimensional Gaussian variables, where the parameter estimation could only be…

We estimate wage cyclicality using the user cost of labor (UCL), a measure of marginal labor cost. We propose a novel methodology to correct composition bias from cyclical jobto-job upgrading by exploiting school-to-employment flows. We implement the methodology using rich Japanese wage data. The estimated UCL is strongly procyclical, with a semi-elasticity of 2.52 with respect to the unemployment rate, which is 1.6 and 2.3 times as large as that of the new-hire and average…

针对协变量完全缺失的增广迁移回归学习AI 解读

Abstract Large-scale population-level datasets, such as the UK Biobank and the All of Us Research Program, often lack covariates needed for a specific analysis, such as genetic or lifestyle measures, while related studies measure them. This creates a cross-population missing-data problem in which covariates are completely unobserved in the target population, rather than partially missing within one dataset. We propose an augmented transfer regression learning method for this…

利用星际边界探测器数据分离带状与全球分布通量的统计方法AI 解读

NASA’s Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) satellite collects data on energetic neutral atoms (ENAs) that can provide insight into the heliosphere boundary between our solar system and interstellar space. Using these data, scientists can construct maps of the ENA intensities (often, expressed in terms of flux) observed in all directions. The ENA flux observed in these maps is believed to come from at least two distinct sources: one source which manifests as a ribbon of…

平均处理效应局部化：合成控制中的投影方法AI 解读

Many real-world policies and business interventions require assessing short-term effects to inform timely decisions, even though most causal inference methods focus on long-term average treatment effects. In this article, we introduce average treatment effect localization (ATEL), which captures localized, short-term policy impacts in panel data settings with a single treated unit and provides early indicators of policy impact. To accommodate both time-varying and nonlinear…

协变量自适应随机实验中混合效应模型的统计推断AI 解读

Recent clinical studies increasingly involve a long factor with many levels, e.g., investigation sites, resulting in a large number of strata that must be accounted for either through design or subsequent analysis. This complication has prompted concerns from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA, 2023) regarding the adequacy of standard statistical methods, whose performance may deteriorate, and their properties become unclear when the number of strata is relatively…

面向重尾数据的高维切片逆 Kendall 秩相关估计AI 解读

Sufficient dimension reduction is an important branch of statistical learning, which performs an optimal projection of covariates under a supervised learning framework. Most of the existing sufficient dimension reduction algorithms require strict restrictions on the distribution of models, making them sensitive to heavy-tailed predictors and outliers. In this article, we propose a novel method called Sliced Inverse Kendall’s tau Estimation (SIKE) designed for analyzing…

集体家庭消费中的规模经济AI 解读

ABSTRACT Browning et al. (2013) model collective‐household economies of scale in goods consumption by having each good be partly shared, instead of each good being public or private. We modify their model to achieve simple point identification and estimation of the economies of scale of consumption of each good, and we provide a new index of household level economies of scale. Our model has a linear form, permits households of varying composition, including children, and…

用广义加性密度比模型处理正例与未标记数据AI 解读

Abstract This paper focuses on learning from positive and unlabelled (PU) data, where only some positives are labelled and the rest are mixed with negatives. Classical exponential tilting models guarantee identifiability by imposing a linear structure, but they can be severely misspecified when the true relationships are nonlinear. We propose a generalized additive density-ratio framework that retains identifiability while allowing nonlinear and feature-specific effects. The…

双重因子结构下高维函数型时间序列的协方差函数估计AI 解读

We propose a flexible dual functional factor model for modelling high-dimensional functional time series. In this model, a high-dimensional fully functional factor structure is imposed on the observed functional processes, whereas a low-dimensional version (via series approximation) is assumed for the latent functional factors. We extend the classic principal component analysis technique for estimating a low-rank structure to the estimation of a large covariance matrix of…

高维均值向量的分布无关收缩估计AI 解读

We introduce shrinkage estimators of the sample mean vector in high dimension. Our estimators share desirable properties relative to existing methods: they are distribution-free, consider bona-fide target estimators, and use simple estimators of the shrinkage intensities independent of the precision matrix which are L2 consistent in high dimension. Unlike existing estimators that impose that the whitened data be an i.i.d. matrix, we only impose i.i.d. across sample…

无条件异方差下基于 LAD 的自适应 Bootstrap 单位根检验AI 解读

This paper studies unit root testing based on least absolute deviations (LAD) regression under unconditional heteroscedasticity. We first derive asymptotic properties of the LAD estimator under both unit root and local-to-unity settings in the presence of unconditional heteroscedasticity and weak dependence. The results show that the limiting distribution of the LAD estimator (and thus the derived test statistics) is closely associated with unknown heteroscedasticity. To…

非线性结构模型中边际效应分布与分位数的面板估计：垃圾食品需求应用AI 解读

In this paper, we propose a framework to estimate the distribution of marginal effects in a general class of structural models that allow for very general nonlinearities, high dimensional heterogeneity, and unrestricted correlation between the persistent components of this heterogeneity and all covariates. The main idea is to form a derivative dependent variable using two periods of the panel and use differences in outcome variables of nearby subpopulations to obtain the…

异质性部分干扰下观察性研究处理效应的半参数估计AI 解读

In many observational studies in social science and medicine, subjects or units are connected, and one unit’s treatment and attributes may affect another’s treatment and outcome, violating the stable unit treatment value assumption (SUTVA) and resulting in interference. To enable feasible estimation and inference, many previous works assume exchangeability of interfering units (neighbors). However, in many applications with distinctive units, interference is heterogeneous…

不同频率预测的统计比较AI 解读

Current forecast evaluation tests can only assess forecasts generated at the same frequency. However, in real-world scenarios, predictions for the same economic variable may be made at different frequencies. The existing literature lacks statistical tests for evaluating such forecasts. This paper introduces a new evaluation test for comparing these forecasts. We propose a two-sample t-type test designed to test the equality of means between two potentially correlated time…

空间自回归模型的迁移学习：美国总统选举预测应用AI 解读

It is important to incorporate spatial geographic information into U.S. presidential election analysis, especially for swing states. The state-level analysis also faces significant challenges of limited spatial data availability. To address the challenges of spatial dependence and small sample sizes in predicting U.S. presidential election results using spatially dependent data, we propose a novel transfer learning framework within the SAR model, called as tranSAR. Classical…

条件矩限制模型中的内生变量缺失AI 解读

We estimate finite-dimensional parameters in conditional moment restriction (CMR) models when at least one of the endogenous variables (outcomes and/or explanatory variables) in the model is missing for some individuals in the sample. We demonstrate that efficiency gains in estimation occur if and only if there is at least one endogenous variable—included in or excluded from the CMR model—that is nonmissing (observed for all individuals in the sample), which we show…

具有共同随机趋势的高维门限因子模型AI 解读

We study inference for threshold regression in the context of a large factor model with common stochastic trends. We develop a Least Squares estimator for the threshold level, deriving almost sure rates of convergence and proposing a novel way of constructing confidence intervals based on a randomized test. Our confidence intervals are constructed using the rates of convergence of the estimated threshold level, and no limiting distribution is required. We also develop a…

弱识别与少量聚类下工具变量分位数回归的梯度野生自助法AI 解读

We study the gradient wild bootstrap-based inference for instrumental variable quantile regressions in the framework of a small number of large clusters in which the number of clusters is viewed as fixed, and the number of observations for each cluster diverges to infinity. For the Wald inference, we show that our wild bootstrap Wald test, with or without studentization using the cluster-robust covariance estimator (CRVE), controls size asymptotically up to a small error as…

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无效代理变量与波动率变化AI 解读

When in proxy-SVARs the covariance matrix of VAR disturbances is subject to exogenous, permanent breaks that cause IRFs to change across volatility regimes, even strong, exogenous external instruments yield inconsistent estimates of the dynamic causal effects. However, if these volatility shifts are properly incorporated into the analysis through (testable) "stability restrictions", we demonstrate that the target IRFs are point-identified and can be estimated consistently…

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异质性面板中的个体平均估计AI 解读

In this work, we introduce a unit averaging procedure to efficiently recover unit-specific parameters in a heterogeneous panel model. The procedure consists in estimating the parameter of a given unit using a weighted average of all the unit-specific parameter estimators in the panel. The weights of the average are determined by minimizing an MSE criterion we derive. We analyze the properties of the resulting minimum MSE unit averaging estimator in a local heterogeneity…

排序数据的静态与动态贝叶斯加性回归树模型AI 解读

Ranking lists are often provided at regular time intervals in a range of applications, including economics, sports, marketing, and politics. Most popular methods for rank-order data postulate a linear specification for the latent scores, which determine the observed ranks, and ignore the temporal dependence of the ranking lists. To address these issues, novel nonparametric static (ROBART) and autoregressive (ARROBART) models are developed, with latent scores defined as…