Moment-Based Inference for Regression with Latent Dirichlet Covariates
潜在狄利克雷协变量回归的矩推断
Topic models are often used as dimension-reduction tools before regression, with estimated document-level topic shares treated as observed covariates. This plug-in workflow creates two inferential difficulties: valid inference requires a regular first-stage-to-second-stage expansion that propagates topic-estimation uncertainty, and, at fixed document length, a document's topic mixture cannot be consistently recovered from its own words even when the population topic matrix…