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风险厌恶竞标者第一价格拍卖的半参数估计AI 解读

In view of the non-identification of the first-price auction model with risk-averse bidders, this paper proposes some parametric identifying restrictions and a semiparametric estimator for the risk aversion parameter(s) and the latent distribution of private values. Specifically, we exploit heterogeneity across auctioned objects to establish semiparametric identification under a conditional quantile restriction of the bidders' private value distribution and a…

缺失数据与测量误差下的收入贫困估计AI 解读

Reliable measures of poverty are an essential statistical tool for public policies aimed at reducing poverty. In this article we consider the reliability of income poverty measures based on survey data which are typically plagued by missing data and measurement error. Neglecting these problems can bias the estimated poverty rates. We show how to derive upper and lower bounds for the population poverty rate using the sample evidence, an upper bound on the probability of…

通过分位数回归评估风险价值模型AI 解读

This article is concerned with evaluating Value-at-Risk estimates. It is well known that using only binary variables, such as whether or not there was an exception, sacrifices too much information. However, most of the specification tests (also called backtests) available in the literature, such as Christoffersen (1998) and Engle and Manganelli (2004) are based on such variables. In this article we propose a new backtest that does not rely solely on binary variables. It is…

具有部分分位数变动效应的删失分位数回归AI 解读

Quantile regression offers a flexible approach to analyzing survival data, allowing each covariate effect to vary with quantiles. In practice, constancy is often found to be adequate for some covariates. In this paper, we study censored quantile regression tailored to the partially functional effect setting with a mixture of varying and constant effects. Such a model can offer a simpler view regarding covariate-survival association and, moreover, can enable improvement in…

不交叉分位数回归曲线估计AI 解读

Since quantile regression curves are estimated individually, the quantile curves can cross, leading to an invalid distribution for the response. A simple constrained version of quantile regression is proposed to avoid the crossing problem for both linear and nonparametric quantile curves. A simulation study and a reanalysis of tropical cyclone intensity data shows the usefulness of the procedure. Asymptotic properties of the estimator are equivalent to the typical approach…

半参数 M 估计量渐近分布的刻画AI 解读

This paper develops a concrete formula for the asymptotic distribution of two-step, possibly non-smooth semiparametric M-estimators under general misspecification. Our regularity conditions are relatively straightforward to verify and also weaker than those available in the literature. The first-stage nonparametric estimation may depend on finite dimensional parameters. We characterize: (1) conditions under which the first-stage estimation of nonparametric components do not…

参数动态条件分位数模型的设定检验AI 解读

This article proposes omnibus specification tests of parametric dynamic quantile models. In contrast to the existing procedures, we allow for a flexible specification, where a possible continuum of quantiles is simultaneously specified under fairly weak conditions on the serial dependence in the underlying data-generating process. Since the null limit distribution of tests is not pivotal, we propose a subsampling approximation of the asymptotic critical values. A Monte Carlo…

基于已实现分位数的积分方差估计AI 解读

In this paper, we propose a new jump-robust quantile-based realised variance measure of ex post return variation that can be computed using potentially noisy data. The estimator is consistent for the integrated variance and we present feasible central limit theorems which show that it converges at the best attainable rate and has excellent efficiency. Asymptotically, the quantile-based realised variance is immune to finite activity jumps and outliers in the price series,…

分布离散程度参数的部分识别AI 解读

This paper analyzes partial identification of parameters that measure a distribution's spread, for example, the variance, Gini coefficient, entropy, or interquartile range. The core results are tight, two-dimensional identification regions for the expectation and variance, the median and interquartile ratio, and many other combinations of parameters. They are developed for numerous identification settings, including but not limited to cases where one can bound either the…

加性分位数模型的回拟合与平滑回拟合AI 解读

In this paper, we study the ordinary backfitting and smooth backfitting as methods of fitting additive quantile models. We show that these backfitting quantile estimators are asymptotically equivalent to the corresponding backfitting estimators of the additive components in a specially-designed additive mean regression model. This implies that the theoretical properties of the backfitting quantile estimators are not unlike those of backfitting mean regression estimators. We…

基于新型有序回归模型的老年人功能状态预测AI 解读

The functional mobility of the elderly is a very important factor in aging research, and prognostic information is valuable in making clinical and health care policy decisions. We develop a predictive model for the functional status of the elderly based on data from the Second Longitudinal Study of Aging (LSOA II). The functional status is an ordinal response variable. The ordered probit model has been moderately successful in analyzing such data; however, its reliance on…

关于协整发展的若干思考AI 解读

This paper describes how the notion of cointegration came about, and discusses some generalizations to indicate where the topic may go next. In particular, some issues in the analysis of possibly cointegrated quantile time series are discussed.

Bootstrap 的不一致性：Grenander 估计量AI 解读

In this paper, we investigate the (in)-consistency of different bootstrap methods for constructing confidence intervals in the class of estimators that converge at rate n1/3. The Grenander estimator, the nonparametric maximum likelihood estimator of an unknown nonincreasing density function f on [0, ∞), is a prototypical example. We focus on this example and explore different approaches to constructing bootstrap confidence intervals for f(t0), where t0 ∈ (0, ∞) is an…

非平稳时间序列分位数曲线的非参数推断AI 解读

The paper considers nonparametric specification tests of quantile curves for a general class of nonstationary processes. Using Bahadur representation and Gaussian approximation results for nonstationary time series, simultaneous confidence bands and integrated squared difference tests are proposed to test various parametric forms of the quantile curves with asymptotically correct type I error rates. A wild bootstrap procedure is implemented to alleviate the problem of slow…

不完全信息同时行动博弈的半参数估计AI 解读

This paper studies the problem of estimating the normal-form payoff parameters of a simultaneous, discrete game where the realization of such payoffs is not common knowledge. The paper contributes to the existing literature in two ways. First, by making a comparison with the complete information case it formally describes a set of conditions under which allowing for private information in payoffs facilitates the identification of various features of the game. Second,…

面板数据的稳健惩罚分位数回归估计AI 解读

This paper investigates a class of penalized quantile regression estimators for panel data. The penalty serves to shrink a vector of individual specific effects toward a common value. The degree of this shrinkage is controlled by a tuning parameter [lambda]. It is shown that the class of estimators is asymptotically unbiased and Gaussian, when the individual effects are drawn from a class of zero-median distribution functions. The tuning parameter, [lambda], can thus be…

动态条件分位数模型的有效估计AI 解读

In this paper we consider the problem of semiparametric efficient estimation in conditional quantile models with time series data. We construct an M-estimator which achieves the semiparametric efficiency bound recently derived by Komunjer and Vuong (forthcoming). Our efficient M-estimator is obtained by minimizing an objective function which depends on a nonparametric estimator of the conditional distribution of the variable of interest rather than its density. The estimator…

分位数回归的置信带AI 解读

Let ( X 1 , Y 1 ), …, ( X n , Y n ) be independent and identically distributed random variables and let l ( x ) be the unknown p -quantile regression curve of Y conditional on X . A quantile smoother l n ( x ) is a localized, nonlinear estimator of l ( x ). The strong uniform consistency rate is established under general conditions. In many applications it is necessary to know the stochastic fluctuation of the process { l n ( x ) – l ( x )}. Using strong approximations of…

分位数回归推断的贝叶斯非参数方法AI 解读

We develop a Bayesian method for nonparametric model–based quantile regression. The approach involves flexible Dirichlet process mixture models for the joint distribution of the response and the covariates, with posterior inference for different quantile curves emerging from the conditional response distribution given the covariates. An extension to allow for partially observed responses leads to a novel Tobit quantile regression framework. We use simulated data sets and two…

指数族中的客观贝叶斯与条件推断AI 解读

Objective Bayes methodology is considered for conditional frequentist inference about a canonical parameter in a multi-parameter exponential family. A condition is derived under which posterior Bayes quantiles match the conditional frequentist coverage to a higher-order approximation in terms of the sample size. This condition is on the model, not on the prior, and it ensures that any first-order probability matching prior in the unconditional sense automatically yields…

分位数微积分与删失回归AI 解读

Quantile regression has been advocated in survival analysis to assess evolving covariate effects. However, challenges arise when the censoring time is not always observed and may be covariate-dependent, particularly in the presence of continuously-distributed covariates. In spite of several recent advances, existing methods either involve algorithmic complications or impose a probability grid. The former leads to difficulties in the implementation and asymptotics, whereas…

处理效应分布的尖锐界及其统计推断AI 解读

In this paper, we propose nonparametric estimators of sharp bounds on the distribution of treatment effects of a binary treatment and establish their asymptotic distributions. We note the possible failure of the standard bootstrap with the same sample size and apply the fewer-than- n bootstrap to making inferences on these bounds. The finite sample performances of the confidence intervals for the bounds based on normal critical values, the standard bootstrap, and the…

利用自适应重要性抽样估计分位数AI 解读

We introduce new quantile estimators with adaptive importance sampling. The adaptive estimators are based on weighted samples that are neither independent nor identically distributed. Using a new law of iterated logarithm for martingales, we prove the convergence of the adaptive quantile estimators for general distributions with nonunique quantiles thereby extending the work of Feldman and Tucker [Ann. Math. Statist. 37 (1996) 451–457]. We illustrate the algorithm with an…

讨论：条件多元分位数的建模选择AI 解读

First I would like to congratulate the authors for developing a new concept of directional quantile contours.The work will contribute well to the pursuit of multivariate quantiles.The multiple output regression provides a new way of estimating the conditional multivariate quantile functions, which will certainly facilitate a large number of applications.I enjoy the paper for its mathematical rigor and computational savvy.My discussion will focus on the modeling aspect of…