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Mark Pilling 对《采用 Varimax 的传统因子分析可进行统计推断》的讨论AI 解读

Thanks to the authors for their very interesting, thoughtful, and thorough reconsideration of the topic of factor analysis. We know to be a weakness of factor analysis that an issue is that analysts must chose the type of rotation (e.g., SPSS lists Varimax, Direct Oblimin, Quartimax, Equamax, & Promax) to use, and this choice tends to be subjectively based on how useful or interpretable the rotation was in the context of the study. So multiple rotations might be considered.…

含个体、时间及交互效应的短期动态面板模型AI 解读

Summary This paper proposes a transformed quasi‐maximum likelihood (TQML) estimator for short dynamic fixed effects panel data models allowing for interactive effects through a multifactor error structure. The proposed estimator is robust to the heterogeneity of the initial values and common unobserved effects, while at the same time allowing for standard fixed and time effects. It is applicable to both stationary and unit root cases. The order condition for identification…

实验经济学中利用协变量调整的多重检验AI 解读

Summary This paper provides a framework for testing multiple null hypotheses simultaneously using experimental data in which simple random sampling is used to assign treatment status to units. Using general results from the multiple testing literature, we develop under weak assumptions a procedure that (i) asymptotically controls the familywise error rate—the probability of one or more false rejections—and (ii) is asymptotically balanced in that the marginal probability of…

二元结果概率预测的诚实校准评估AI 解读

Summary Probability predictions from binary regressions or machine learning methods ought to be calibrated: if an event is predicted to occur with probability $x$, it should materialize with approximately that frequency, which means that the so-called calibration curve $p(\cdot)$ should equal the identity, i.e., $p(x) = x$ for all $x$ in the unit interval. We propose honest calibration assessment based on novel confidence bands for the calibration curve, which are valid…

非可分三角模型中个体处理效应的推断AI 解读

In nonseparable triangular models with a binary endogenous treatment and a binary instrumental variable, Vuong and Xu (2017) established identification results for individual treatment effects (ITEs) under the rank invariance assumption. Using their approach, Feng et al. (2019) proposed a uniformly consistent kernel estimator for the density of the ITE that utilizes estimated ITEs. In this paper, we establish the asymptotic normality of the density estimator of Feng et al.…

价值函数的一致推断AI 解读

We propose a method to conduct uniform inference for the (optimal) value function, that is, the function that results from optimizing an objective function marginally over one of its arguments. Marginal optimization is not Hadamard differentiable (that is, compactly differentiable) as a map between the spaces of objective and value functions, which is problematic because standard inference methods for nonlinear maps usually rely on Hadamard differentiability. However, we…

滚动回归估计量的分布AI 解读

We establish the asymptotic distribution for rolling linear regression models using various window widths. The limiting distribution depends on the width of the rolling window and on a “bias process” that is typically ignored in practice. Based on the asymptotic distribution, we tabulate critical values used to find uniform confidence intervals for the average values of regression parameters over the windows. We propose a corrected rolling regression technique that removes…

多层阈值法下的两样本高维协方差检验与信号识别AI 解读

The paper considers testing and signal identification for covariance matrices from two populations of marginally sub-Gaussian distributed. A multi-level thresholding procedure is proposed for testing the equality of two high-dimensional covariance matrices, which is designed to detect sparse and faint differences between the covariances. A novel U-statistic composition is developed to establish the asymptotic distribution of the thresholding statistics in conjunction with…

双维度异质性线性面板模型的一致有效推断AI 解读

This paper studies uniform inference in a linear panel data model when the slope coefficients may exhibit heterogeneity over both the individual and time dimensions and they can be correlated with the regressors. We propose a generalized two-way fixed effects (GTWFE) estimation procedure to estimate the model. To establish the asymptotic properties of the GTWFE estimators, we invert a number of large dimensional square matrices by approximating them with quasi-Kronecker…

函数参数的快速、公平同时置信带AI 解读

Abstract Quantifying uncertainty using confidence regions is a central goal of statistical inference. Despite this, methodologies for confidence bands in functional data analysis are still underdeveloped compared to estimation and hypothesis testing. In this work, we present a new methodology for constructing simultaneous confidence bands for functional parameter estimates. Our bands possess a number of positive qualities: (1) they are not based on resampling and thus are…

广义线性模型中控制错误发现率的无尺度方法AI 解读

The Generalized Linear Model (GLM) has been widely used in practice to model counts or other types of non-Gaussian data. This article introduces a framework for feature selection in the GLM that can achieve robust False Discovery Rate (FDR) control. The main idea is to construct a mirror statistic based on data perturbation to measure the importance of each feature. FDR control is achieved by taking advantage of the mirror statistic’s property that its sampling distribution…

具有错误发现率控制的大规模高斯图模型迁移学习AI 解读

Transfer learning for high-dimensional Gaussian graphical models (GGMs) is studied. The target GGM is estimated by incorporating the data from similar and related auxiliary studies, where the similarity between the target graph and each auxiliary graph is characterized by the sparsity of a divergence matrix. An estimation algorithm, Trans-CLIME, is proposed and shown to attain a faster convergence rate than the minimax rate in the single-task setting. Furthermore, we…

非参数加性模型的核 Knockoffs 变量选择AI 解读

Thanks to its fine balance between model flexibility and interpretability, the nonparametric additive model has been widely used, and variable selection for this type of model has been frequently studied. However, none of the existing solutions can control the false discovery rate (FDR) unless the sample size tends to infinity. The knockoff framework is a recent proposal that can address this issue, but few knockoff solutions are directly applicable to nonparametric models.…

用于多模态数据分析的正交化核去偏机器学习AI 解读

Multimodal imaging has transformed neuroscience research. While it presents unprecedented opportunities, it also imposes serious challenges. Particularly, it is difficult to combine the merits of the interpretability attributed to a simple association model with the flexibility achieved by a highly adaptive nonlinear model. In this article, we propose an orthogonalized kernel debiased machine learning approach, which is built upon the Neyman orthogonality and a form of…

控制错误率的特征筛选阈值选择AI 解读

Hard thresholding rule is commonly adopted in feature screening procedures to screen out unimportant predictors for ultrahigh-dimensional data. However, different thresholds are required to adapt to different contexts of screening problems and an appropriate thresholding magnitude usually varies from the model and error distribution. With an ad-hoc choice, it is unclear whether all of the important predictors are selected or not, and it is very likely that the procedures…

高维可交换数组的统计推断AI 解读

We consider inference for high-dimensional separately and jointly exchangeable arrays where the dimensions may be much larger than the sample sizes. For both exchangeable arrays, we first derive high-dimensional central limit theorems over the rectangles and subsequently develop novel multiplier bootstraps with theoretical guarantees. These theoretical results rely on new technical tools such as Hoeffding-type decomposition and maximal inequalities for the degenerate…

使用 ℓp 正则化统计量的 Model-X knockoffs 功效分析AI 解读

Variable selection properties of procedures utilizing penalized-likelihood estimates is a central topic in the study of high-dimensional linear regression problems. Existing literature emphasizes the quality of ranking of the variables by such procedures as reflected in the receiver operating characteristic curve or in prediction performance. Specifically, recent works have harnessed modern theory of approximate message-passing (AMP) to obtain, in a particular setting, exact…

高维面板函数型时间序列的统计推断AI 解读

Abstract In this paper, we develop statistical inference tools for high-dimensional functional time series. We introduce a new concept of physical dependent processes in the space of square integrable functions, which adopts the idea of basis decomposition of functional data in these spaces, and derive Gaussian and multiplier bootstrap approximations for sums of high-dimensional functional time series. These results have numerous important statistical consequences.…

异方差与相关误差线性模型的去偏及阈值化岭回归AI 解读

Abstract High-dimensional linear models with independent errors have been well-studied. However, statistical inference on a high-dimensional linear model with heteroskedastic, dependent (and possibly nonstationary) errors is still a novel topic. Under such complex assumptions, the paper at hand introduces a debiased and thresholded ridge regression estimator that is consistent, and is able to recover the model sparsity. Moreover, we derive a Gaussian approximation theorem…

通过错误率控制数据驱动地选择变点数量AI 解读

In multiple change-point analysis, one of the main difficulties is to determine the number of change-points. Various consistent selection methods, including the use of Schwarz information criterion and cross-validation, have been proposed to balance the model fitting and complexity. However, there is lack of systematic approaches to provide theoretical guarantee of significance in determining the number of changes. In this paper, we introduce a data-adaptive selection…

有技能共同基金的筛选：依赖情形下的错误发现控制AI 解读

Selecting skilled mutual funds through the multiple testing framework has received increasing attention from finance researchers and statisticians. The intercept α of Carhart four-factor model is commonly used to measure the true performance of mutual funds, and positive α’s are considered as skilled. We observe that the standardized ordinary least-square estimates of α’s across the funds possess strong dependence and nonnormality structures, indicating that the conventional…

条件分位数函数估计与推断的简便非参数方法AI 解读

In this paper, we present a new nonparametric method for estimating a conditional quantile function and develop its weak convergence theory. The proposed estimator is computationally easy to implement and automatically ensures quantile monotonicity by construction. For inference, we propose to use a residual bootstrap method. Our Monte Carlo simulations show that this new estimator compares well with the check-function-based estimator in terms of estimation mean squared…

高维高斯图模型的统一推断AI 解读

Summary Graphical models have become a popular tool for representing dependencies within large sets of variables and are crucial for representing causal structures. We provide results for uniform inference on high-dimensional graphical models, in which the number of target parameters $d$ is potentially much larger than the sample size, under approximate sparsity. Our results highlight how graphical models can be estimated and recovered using modern machine learning methods…

分布函数检验与置信带的新方法AI 解读

We introduce new goodness-of-fit tests and corresponding confidence bands for distribution functions. They are inspired by multiscale methods of testing and based on refined laws of the iterated logarithm for the normalized uniform empirical process Un(t)/ t(1−t) and its natural limiting process, the normalized Brownian bridge process U(t)/ t(1−t). The new tests and confidence bands refine the procedures of Berk and Jones (1979) and Owen (1995). Roughly speaking, the high…