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评估时间序列已知转换点连续性的时间接缝分数AI 解读

Long environmental records increasingly combine observations from successive observing or processing systems. Transitions between these systems create temporal seams that may reflect imperfect harmonization or changes in the observed process. We introduce the Temporal Seam Score (S-score, or S), a signed, robust measure for assessing continuity at a known transition time. The complete time series is fitted with a seam-blind model accounting for trend, seasonality, and…

货币泵指数的可计算估计：一则评论AI 解读

The Money Pump Index (MPI) of Echenique et al. (2011) measures the severity of consumer irrationality, but computing the exact mean and median MPI over all revealed preference cycles is NP-hard (Smeulders et al., 2013). Existing solutions rely on heuristic proxies, such as evaluating only shorter cycles or bounding the MPI. By framing revealed preferences as a directed graph, this paper projects choice violations onto fundamental cycle bases, which are minimal sets of…

一般干扰下分位数暴露效应的设计型估计与推断AI 解读

Many applications in public health, environmental science, and economics feature spillovers across connected units, violating the Stable Unit Treatment Value Assumption (SUTVA) underlying classical quantile treatment effect methods. We develop a general framework for defining, estimating, and conducting inference for quantile exposure effects (QEEs) under network interference, encompassing quantile direct and spillover effects as leading cases. Studying QEEs under…

高维非平稳时间序列中多个同时变点的检测AI 解读

This paper studies the detection of multiple simultaneous (systematic) change points for high-dimensional nonstantionary economic and financial time series data. The analytic framework used is based on the standard and adaptive fused group lasso method, where the mixed L_{2,1} penalty is either uniform or re-weighted by data-dependent weights. This paper shows that, under appropriate conditions, this approach is L_2 consistent and, by adopting the data-dependent weights,…

核心—边缘网络的惩罚最大似然推断AI 解读

Likelihood-based network models are often fitted under links' independence and low-order constraints, while empirical networks frequently exhibit systematic higher-order structures such as triangles and wedges, characterizing the observed clustering patterns. Real-world core-periphery networks such as the interbank market or the air transportation system represent key examples, with cores displaying complex and nonlinear features. We formalize Penalized Likelihood with…

连续处理双重差分中的水平与响应两种边际AI 解读

This paper studies difference-in-differences with staggered adoption and a continuous, time-invariant dose. Each cohort-time comparison contains two margins. The level margin is the average treatment effect at realized doses. Under level parallel trends it equals the level contrast between the treated cohort and not-yet-treated controls. The response margin is the within-cohort slope of the outcome change on dose. It uses no controls, and its causal interpretation requires a…

风险比较定理及其在扩散系数深度学习中的应用AI 解读

We investigate the nonparametric estimation of the diffusion matrix in stochastic differential equations featuring multidimensional, strong mixing covariate processes. We propose a flexible statistical framework based on general function classes that does not require a linear basis representation, rendering our results directly applicable to deep neural network estimators. Our approach employs a two-step estimation procedure: constructing a preliminary nonparametric…

人为强迫、气候变化与变暖形态：分布协整的统计推断AI 解读

Anthropogenic forcing components follow different long-run paths, while persistent temperature change can involve distributional changes beyond the mean. Scalar regressions aggregate these components and retain only mean temperature, obscuring how distinct forcing paths relate to persistent distributional change. We develop new testing, estimation, and inference methods for long-run relations between an integrated predictor vector and a density-valued response. These…

二变量函数型因果发现的统计推断AI 解读

Causal discovery methods aim to determine the causal direction between variables using observational data. Functional causal discovery methods rely on structural and distributional assumptions to determine directionality but typically lack statistical inference. This paper reviews the statistical guarantees of existing functional causal discovery methods in theory, software, and applied use, highlighting a key gap: the absence of a unified inferential framework that applies…

单因子稀疏投资组合选择的结构复杂性：精确算法、参数化困难性与受限电路下界AI 解读

We study exact-cardinality, equally weighted minimum-variance portfolio selection under a one-factor covariance model supplied in factor form. In the nonnegative homoskedastic regime, selecting the K smallest loadings is optimal. Allowing strictly positive asset-specific idiosyncratic variances makes the decision problem NP-complete even with positive integer loadings and a strictly positive-definite covariance matrix; with identity residual covariance, exactly one negative…

通过变换后的低秩分位数曲面发现因果方向AI 解读

We propose Low-Rank Quantile Surfaces (LRQS), a bivariate causal model in which, in the causal direction, an unknown monotone transformation of the conditional quantile surface admits a low-rank functional decomposition. LRQS subsumes location-scale noise models and post-nonlinear heteroscedastic noise models, while allowing multiple quantile bases to represent changes beyond location-scale effects. We prove generic identifiability of LRQS: the transformed quantile surface…

不依赖收敛速度设定的成对数据回归 Wald 推断AI 解读

This paper develops Wald inference for least-squares estimation of linear regression models on dyadic data, accommodating configurations where multiple observations share the same pair of units (e.g., directed flows, multilayer networks, and dyadic panels). We establish that the dyadic-robust Wald statistic is asymptotically $χ^2_q$ for an arbitrary nonrandom sequence of full-rank restrictions, under a single condition on the accumulation of dependence. Throughout, no…

复合自适应实验中的经验贝叶斯方法AI 解读

We investigate Empirical Bayes (EB) methods in the context of compound adaptive experiments, where the arm distribution in each experiment follows a normal distribution with an unknown mean that we seek to estimate. There are two main EB strategies: $g$-modeling, which estimates the prior by maximizing the marginal likelihood, and $f$-modeling, which derives posterior means directly from the empirical distribution of the observations. We show that $g$-modeling continues to…

动态选择下的因果推断：时变协变量与潜在异质性AI 解读

I study dynamic treatment effects in panel data under staggered adoption when treatment timing depends jointly on unobserved time-invariant heterogeneity and time-varying pretreatment covariates, including lagged outcomes. Untreated potential outcomes follow a nonparametric dynamic panel model that allows flexible interactions between time-varying covariates and latent heterogeneity. I use pretreatment outcome histories to find individuals with similar time-invariant latent…

因果推断中双重稳健双重／去偏机器学习估计的协变量选择AI 解读

High-dimensional data create challenges for causal effect estimation because identifying the covariates needed for correct model specification becomes increasingly difficult. Double/debiased machine learning (DML) facilitates the use of machine learning (ML) for causal inference by mitigating regularization and overfitting bias, but comparatively less attention has been given to covariate selection in relation to the double robustness (DR) property possessed by some DML…

具有分布无关安全保证的保形政策学习AI 解读

Policy learning aims to determine who should be treated based on individual characteristics. In high-stakes settings such as medicine and public policy where safety is a central concern, improving the average outcomes alone may not be sufficient: decision makers may also seek to protect individuals from harm, in line with the Hippocratic principle of ``do no harm.'' In this paper, we propose \textit{conformal policy learning} (CPL), a policy learning procedure with a new…

AI 生成协变量：序贯实验中的因果角色与目标量漂移AI 解读

AI-generated covariates from notes, conversations, images, and wearable streams can change the causal question when their roles are left unspecified. A generated feature may represent a treatment version, pre-action state, history, design variable, mediator, outcome proxy, observation process, or intercurrent event; these roles are not interchangeable. We formulate a causal type discipline for sequential experiments: a versioned representation map, a causal role classifier,…

信息集仿真：AI 提取电子健康记录特征的因果证书AI 解读

AI and large language models can recover clinically meaningful features from electronic health records (EHRs), but predictive usefulness does not establish admissibility for causal inference. We introduce information set emulation: an AI typed lift attaches source evidence, clinical and recording times, decision-time availability, representation version, proposed causal roles, and unresolved ambiguity to extracted features under a locked target trial. Causal certificates…

单调序贯随机缺失下的有效估计与完整案例粗化成本AI 解读

Complete-case coarsening discards observed confounder values from partially complete records. We study its consequences for average treatment effect estimation with two ordered, partially observed confounders under monotone sequential missing at random. We specialize the standard coarsening-at-random transformation to the causal influence function, establish the canonical gradient, and give an exact drift identity for a cross-fitted estimator with sequential multiple…

比例与离散时间序列的层级一致预测AI 解读

Hierarchical and grouped time series arise when a multivariate time series is forced to satisfy a set of aggregation constraints, motivating forecast reconciliation methods that ensure coherent forecasts of such hierarchical structures. Many real-world applications involve discrete or bounded supports, introducing additional challenges that are not addressed Gaussian-based reconciliation methods. We develop a post-hoc hierarchical forecasting approach to construct coherent…

线性参数模型中混合有序与指数族因果图的可识别性AI 解读

The problem of identifiability in linear parametric models (LPMs) whose nodes follow either an ordered logit model or a regular one-parameter exponential family is evaluated. The results go beyond classical structural equation models as well as results for nodes with observations from a homogeneous family of distributions. The main result establishes that the orientation of every edge joining an ordinal node to an exponential-family node is identifiable from the joint…

允许工具变量直接效应的剖面 Anderson–Rubin 稳健检验AI 解读

Instrumental variable analyses often rely on the assumption that instruments affect the outcome only through the endogenous regressor. In many applications, researchers can defend only a plausible range for direct effects of instruments, while conventional sensitivity analyses may be unreliable when instruments are weak. This paper proposes the profiled Anderson--Rubin (pAR) test, which considers all direct effects within a prespecified range and retains a candidate effect…

伪增量检验：利用自然发生的干预衡量广告增量效应AI 解读

We develop a method for measuring the incremental effect of advertising when randomized exper- iments are unavailable. Firms generate abrupt interventions in their own marketing as a byproduct of operations: budgets are cut, channels launch, programs pause. We propose a two-stage proce- dure that treats these events as quasi-experiments. The first stage discovers and dates interventions by exact Bayesian run-length inference on marketing activity series. The second stage…

利用集中不等式开展随机化推断AI 解读

Randomization or design-based inference is becoming an increasingly popular tool for analysing data from randomized experiments: It does not require modelling assumptions on the distribution of outcomes or covariates, and hypothesis testing and estimation are respectively valid and unbiased in finite samples. Yet, confidence intervals for the sample average treatment effect (SATE) are still constructed via finite-population central limit theorems and their coverage is only…