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TEA-Time：跨时间迁移处理效应AI 解读

Treatment effects estimated from a randomized controlled trial are local not only to the study population but also to the time at which the trial was conducted. The literature on generalizing experimental findings to new populations is extensive, yet transporting effects across time has received far less attention, and even defining the target estimand is nonobvious. We formalize the transported average treatment effect under a separable temporal effects assumption, derive…

通过偏 Copula 表示协变量调整后的统计依赖：界限与新认识AI 解读

In this paper, we revisit the notion of partial copula, originally introduced to test conditional independence, highlighting its capability to represent the dependence between two random variables after removing their dependence with a covariate. Building upon results previously presented in the literature, we show that partial copulas can be seen as a nonlinear analogue of partial correlation. Then, we prove several results showing how dependence properties of the…

随机饱和度设计中簇内与簇间溢出效应的估计AI 解读

Randomized saturation designs are two-stage experiments: they first randomly assign treatment probabilities over the clusters and then randomly assign the treatment to the units within the clusters. The existing literature on randomized saturation designs focuses on estimating within-cluster spillover effects by assuming away between-cluster spillover effects. However, the units may interact across clusters in many practical randomized saturation designs. A leading example…

延迟结局与错峰入组随机实验的设计型随时有效推断AI 解读

Delayed outcomes are ubiquitous in online experimentation: treatment can affect whether an outcome occurs, when it occurs, and its realized value. To accommodate staggered entry while remaining robust to environmental nonstationarity and unit-level heterogeneity, we adopt a design-based perspective and target the sample cumulative reward in each arm as a function of calendar time. Our confidence sequences allow practitioners to continuously monitor the counterfactual…

利用历史汇总数据支持个体化治疗建议的贝叶斯自适应富集设计AI 解读

Adaptive enrichment trials aim to identify and recruit participants most likely to benefit from treatment based on evolving biomarker evidence, with the goal of informing individualized treatment recommendations. Bayesian methods are well suited to these designs because they allow external information to be incorporated in a principled manner. In practice, prior studies often provide only summary-level information, with subgroup-specific estimates unavailable due to design…

超越均值：持久同调可忽略性下的拓扑因果效应AI 解读

Average treatment effects (ATE) and conditional average treatment effects (CATE) are foundational causal estimands, but they target changes in expected outcomes and can miss treatment-induced changes in the shape of outcome distributions. A canonical failure mode occurs when control outcomes are unimodal, treated outcomes become bimodal, and both distributions have the same mean. In such cases mean-based causal estimands are zero even though the geometry and topology of the…

处理效应完全中介与因果机制可识别性的检验AI 解读

In causal analysis, understanding the causal mechanisms through which an intervention or treatment affects an outcome is often of central interest. We propose a test to evaluate (i) whether the causal effect of a treatment that is randomly assigned conditional on covariates is fully mediated by, or operates exclusively through, observed intermediate outcomes (referred to as mediators or surrogate outcomes), and (ii) whether the various causal mechanisms operating through…

检测函数型时间序列周期成分的信息准则AI 解读

We propose an information criterion for determining an unknown number of periodic components in functional time series. Identifying the number of frequencies in large-scale time series has been a central focus. To achieve this goal, we suggest an iterative procedure, utilizing the residual process obtained through least squares fitting. This iterative approach demonstrates broad applicability. We establish the consistency of the estimated number of periodic components by…

利用“软”符号限制加速紧识别 SVAR 的后验抽样AI 解读

We propose algorithms for conducting Bayesian inference in structural vector autoregressions identified using sign restrictions. The key feature of our approach is a sampling step based on 'soft' sign restrictions. This step draws from a target density that smoothly penalises parameter values that violate the restrictions, facilitating the use of computationally efficient Markov chain Monte Carlo sampling algorithms. An importance-sampling step yields draws conditional on…

收敛网络干扰下的处理效应估计AI 解读

Under network interference, a unit's observed outcome depends on the treatment assignment of its neighboring units in an exposure graph. Existing design-based asymptotic theory typically considers local interference by restricting neighborhood sizes in the exposure graph. Such methods do not apply to dense exposure graphs, so prior work has often adopted a superpopulation approach instead, imposing regularity through random-graph models. In this paper, we introduce a notion…

有限样本 Cressie–Read 矩估计的风险最优曲率选择AI 解读

We propose a finite-sample risk-optimal selection criterion for Cressie-Read power divergence (CRPD) estimation in overidentified moment-based models. The CRPD family, dual to generalized empirical likelihood, is indexed by the power parameter $γ$. Although $γ$ is conventionally fixed at a researcher-chosen value, we argue that it should be interpreted as a data-tunable curvature parameter governing the finite-sample behavior of the CRPD objective. Through implied…

异质环境下的不变量分位数回归AI 解读

In this paper, we propose an invariant quantile regression (IQR) framework specifically designed for multi-environment datasets, which captures the invariance across different environments. This framework is closely related to transfer learning, causal inference, and fair machine learning, and is motivated by scenarios in which the conditional probability of the response given covariates varies, while certain key variables remain invariant. This perspective differs notably…

多维分类分布的树嵌入贝叶斯因子模型AI 解读

Analyzing data collected from multiple observational units to estimate common and heterogeneous structures through a hierarchical model is a central task in Bayesian inference, and to this end, Bayesian factor models are one of the most widely used tools for this purpose. In this paper, we propose a novel Bayesian latent factor model for categorical distributions from grouped data, providing a parsimonious model for describing many observed distributions through…

实证经济学中可审计的人工智能代理循环：预测组合案例AI 解读

AI coding agents, general purpose assistants that write and execute code, make empirical specification search fast and cheap, but they also widen hidden researcher degrees of freedom. This paper adapts an open-source agent-loop architecture to an empirical economics workflow and adds a post-search holdout evaluation. In a forecast-combination illustration, independent agent searches find methods that improve on benchmarks from the original study. Logged search and holdout…

基于 MMAF 引导学习的时空概率预测AI 解读

We present a theory-guided generalized Bayesian methodology for spatio-temporal raster data, which we use to train an ensemble of stochastic feed-forward neural networks with Gaussian-distributed weights. The methodology incorporates the dependence and causal structure of a spatio-temporal Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process into training and inference by enforcing constraints on the design of the data embedding and the related optimization routine. In inference mode, the networks…

使用 Nash–Sutcliffe 损失进行学习AI 解读

The Nash-Sutcliffe efficiency ($\text{NSE}$) is a widely used, positively oriented relative measure for evaluating forecasts across multiple time series. However, it lacks a decision-theoretic foundation for this purpose. To address this, we examine its negatively oriented counterpart, which we refer to as Nash-Sutcliffe loss, defined as $L_{\text{NS}} = 1 - \text{NSE}$. We prove that $L_{\text{NS}}$ is strictly consistent for an elicitable and identifiable multi-dimensional…

面向时间序列的双重机器学习AI 解读

We modify the Double Machine Learning estimator to broaden its applicability to macroeconomic time-series settings. A deterministic cross-fitting step, termed Reverse Cross-Fitting, leverages the time-reversibility of stationary series to improve sample utilization and efficiency. We detail and prove the conditions under which the estimator is asymptotically valid. We then demonstrate, through simulations, that its performance remains valid in realistic finite samples and is…

模型不确定性下因果效应的稳健加权三角验证AI 解读

A fundamental challenge in causal inference with observational data is correct specification of a causal model. When there is model uncertainty, analysts may seek to use estimates from multiple candidate models that rely on distinct, and possibly partially overlapping, sets of identifying assumptions to infer the causal effect, a process known as triangulation. Principled methods for triangulation, however, remain underdeveloped. Here, we develop a framework for causal…

平稳随机动力系统中因果效应符号的可识别性AI 解读

We study identifiability in continuous-time linear stationary stochastic differential equations with a known causal structure. Unlike existing approaches, we relax the assumption of a known diffusion matrix, thereby respecting the model's intrinsic scale invariance. Therefore, rather than recovering drift coefficients themselves, we introduce edge-sign identifiability: for a given causal structure, we ask whether the sign of a given drift entry is uniquely determined across…

从交叉验证到 SURE：调参正则化估计量的渐近风险AI 解读

We derive the asymptotic risk function of regularized empirical risk minimization (ERM) estimators tuned by $n$-fold cross-validation (CV). The out-of-sample prediction loss of such estimators converges in distribution to the squared-error loss (risk function) of shrinkage estimators in the normal means model, tuned by Stein's unbiased risk estimate (SURE). This risk function provides a more fine-grained picture of predictive performance than uniform bounds on worst-case…

高维函数型时间序列预测的可解释模型AI 解读

We study the modeling and forecasting of high-dimensional functional time series, which can be temporally dependent and cross-sectionally correlated. Central to our implementation is a functional analysis of variance by decomposing high-dimensional functional time series, such as subnational age- and sex-specific mortality observed over years, into two distinct components: a deterministic mean structure and a residual process varying over time. Unlike purely statistical…

依赖与均值异质性下的方差估计AI 解读

This paper develops a framework for variance estimation under dependence and heterogeneous means. This paper shows that consistent estimation of the variance target is impossible in general, and characterizes necessary and sufficient conditions for conservative variance estimation using dual cones. To choose among the valid estimators, this paper formulates three criteria -- minimal correction, pointwise level estimand, and pointwise MSE -- and shows how an eigenvalue…

用变换与增广最小二乘估计地球温度响应AI 解读

The long-term relationship between radiative forcing and surface temperature is central to predicting the impacts of climate change. This study employs multicointegration to characterize this relationship and provides the first application of the Transformed and Augmented Ordinary Least Squares (TAOLS) estimator to estimate the multicointegration model. The main objective is to estimate the Equilibrium Climate Sensitivity (ECS), defined as the global mean surface temperature…

对提前反应与平行趋势违背的联合敏感性分析AI 解读

Two key identifying assumptions used to justify difference-in-differences are parallel trends and no anticipation, yet both may fail in practice. I propose a class of assumptions that constitute deviations from no anticipation and derive closed-form, sharp bounds for several common treatment effect parameters while simultaneously relaxing parallel trends. Deviations from both assumptions are jointly disciplined using observed pre-trends. When some anticipation is imposed,…