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利用工具变量推断广义主分层条件下的处理效应AI 解读

We propose a general approach to inference for a broad class of models that arise in the analysis of treatment effects with discrete-valued treatments and instruments and a general-valued outcome. In addition to instrument exogeneity, the main substantive assumption in our class of models rules out certain response types by assuming that they occur with probability zero. Here, the response type refers to the vector of potential outcomes and potential treatments, and we refer…

干扰与复杂实验设计下的优化方差估计AI 解读

Unbiased and consistent variance estimators generally do not exist for design-based treatment effect estimators because experimenters never observe more than one potential outcome for any unit. The problem is exacerbated by interference and complex experimental designs. Experimenters must accept conservative variance estimators in these settings, but they can strive to minimize the conservativeness. In this paper, we show that the task of constructing a minimally…

利用 Copula 导数检验条件随机占优AI 解读

Comparing two populations at the same physical covariate value requires more than conditional means or isolated target-point decisions: researchers may need evidence about an entire conditional-distribution ordering over a continuum, even when covariate margins differ. This paper makes that common-value comparison estimable under an explicit structure--flexibility tradeoff and turns the resulting surface into simultaneous evidence for first-order stochastic dominance.…

随机试验异质性处理效应估计：风险建模与效应建模比较AI 解读

Introduction Risk modelling (RM) and treatment effect modelling (EM) are two approaches to build models to estimate heterogeneous treatment effects from randomized control trials (RCT). RM is a two-stage approach; it estimates a predicted baseline risk at the first stage and then includes it as the only effect modifier in a regression model in the second stage. EM is a full treatment interaction multivariable model. Both approaches have theoretical advantages and…

处理效应估计中的综合指数AI 解读

This paper studies the practice of combining multiple outcomes into a summary index to estimate a causal effect. For common estimators and index constructions, the estimate equals a weighted sum of the estimated effects on the components, with weights that are implicit and rarely reported. The paper derives the weights and shows that, for inverse-covariance-weighted indices, they can be negative and unrestricted in magnitude, so the index effect can have the opposite sign to…

局部差分隐私下渐近随时有效的分位数推断AI 解读

Sequential quantile inference is difficult under local differential privacy because every record is randomized before reaching the analyst and the limiting quantile variance depends on an unknown density. We develop an online procedure that combines randomized response with dynamically chained parallel stochastic gradient descent (P-SGD). The resulting Polyak--Ruppert estimator admits a strong Gaussian approximation. A cross-chain quadratic statistic, computed entirely from…

隐私保护空间自回归模型的偏差校正与餐馆网络应用AI 解读

Spatial autoregressive (SAR) models and their extensions are important tools for studying network effects. However, with an increasing emphasis on data privacy, data providers often implement protection measures that render standard SAR models inapplicable. In this study, we introduce a privacy-protected SAR model that incorporates noise into both the response and covariates to meet privacy requirements. With noise present in both components, the traditional quasi-maximum…

估计网络中边更替的噪声校正AI 解读

Economic networks are often estimated separately over two periods, and changes in their edge sets are interpreted as structural rewiring. Since both networks are estimated, observed turnover also reflects graph-selection error. We study the two-snapshot Hamming-turnover functional under a homogeneous edge-misclassification model. With known sensitivity and specificity and conditional independence of the estimated edge indicators across periods, latent turnover admits a…

连接局部与总体因果效应：近端工具变量方法AI 解读

Instrumental variable (IV) methods address treatment endogeneity, but with non-compliance and heterogeneous treatment effects a binary instrument generally identifies the local average treatment effect (LATE) among compliers rather than the population average treatment effect (ATE). When treatment effects and compliance probabilities are heterogeneous and dependent through latent factors, the ATE need not be identified by IV variation alone. We develop a proximal…

用贝叶斯加性回归树评估观察数据中的治疗获益预测器AI 解读

A treatment benefit predictor (TBP) is an algorithm that maps a patient's characteristics to their putative benefit from a given treatment, which can be used to inform treatment decisions. However, a TBP must be evaluated in the target population before being adopted for patient care. When only observational data are available, evaluating TBPs requires standard causal identification assumptions, as treatment assignment in such settings is not random. We obtain the posterior…

目标函数平衡：利用策略性不平衡估计因果效应AI 解读

When estimating the average treatment effect of a binary intervention with weights, investigators are often burdened with how best to leave imbalance in the distributions of observed covariates. This requires that investigators proceed cautiously, as imbalance in key (nonlinear transformations of) covariates potentially introduces bias into the ultimate estimated effect. This paper introduces Targeted Function Balancing (TFB), a flexible covariate balancing weights approach…

广义线性模型中多层模型与固定效应方法的比较AI 解读

We extend prior work comparing linear multilevel models (MLM) and fixed effect (FE) models to the generalized linear model (GLM) setting, where the coefficient on a treatment variable is of primary interest. This leads to three insights. (i) First, as in the linear setting, MLM can be thought of as a regularized form of FE (RegFE). This explains why group-level confounding can greatly bias MLM's treatment coefficient estimates. However, unlike the linear setting, there is…

流行病学因果图识别：挑战、可识别性与算法AI 解读

Causal discovery from observational data is fundamental to statistics and machine learning, yet determining causal direction without interventions necessitates structural assumptions. Existing identifiability research primarily focuses on continuous variables under additive noise models, often neglecting mixed datasets containing ordinal scales, counts, and continuous measurements. This paper investigates causal discovery in Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs) where nodes follow…

超越线性：多值处理污染偏误的半参数解决方案AI 解读

We examine semiparametric solutions to contamination bias for nonbinary treatments. Deepening the discussion by Goldsmith-Pinkham et al. (2024), we detail how spline functions approximate conditional expectation and propensity score functions under weak functional-form assumptions. Reanalyzing 18 regressions across 11 studies, we compare standard linear regressions against parametric and semiparametric versions of three contamination-robust estimators. We document large…

作为经济结构相似性指标的余弦度量AI 解读

Structural similarity, the extent to which economic mechanisms respond alike to common shocks, matters for economic forecasting, policy transfer, and other decisions that rely on evidence from comparable settings. For mechanisms approximated by linear models, this idea has a simple geometric representation: The smaller the angle between their coefficient vectors, the more similarly they respond to the same shock. This paper introduces the cosine of this angle as a measure of…

非随机缺失数据下因果目标量的识别与估计AI 解读

Missing not at random (MNAR) data pose significant challenges for causal inference, particularly when both confounders and the outcome are partially observed. Without additional assumptions beyond those required for causal inference, causal estimands are generally not identifiable under MNAR mechanisms. This paper first develops identification results for the causal estimand, the average treatment effect, under several plausible MNAR mechanisms using completeness conditions,…

干预下序贯预测的灵活方法AI 解读

We propose a causal predictive framework for estimating risk under preventative interventions. The Unexposed Mediator Model maintains mediators that are also predictors at their unexposed level, removing double counting of intervention effects at followup visits. The Modifiable Risk Factor Model handles multiple interventions flexibly by modelling their effects via mediators that are also predictors, assuming a known causal structure. The Two Component Model combines a…

组成数据的合成控制AI 解读

When applying synthetic control to compositional outcomes (budget, vote shares), researchers commonly minimize Euclidean distances between raw shares. I propose constructing synthetic controls in Aitchison geometry, using centered log-ratio coordinates to select donor weights and form counterfactuals. This approach respects proportional comparisons and is exactly invariant to common multiplicative changes in relative odds. Under a multinomial-choice model, its weights…

高维聚类数据中的估计目标偏移与合成近似AI 解读

In high-dimensional clustered data, covariates whose distributions differ across clusters can act as proxies for unobserved cluster effects. We show that the marginal-model LASSO implicitly uses sparse combinations of such covariates to shift the estimation target from structural coefficients to a contaminated vector, which inflates false selections. We therefore propose the Synthetic Heterogeneous-Effects LASSO (SHEL), which augments the regression design with separately…

多变量纵向数据的向量藤 Copula 模型AI 解读

Multivariate longitudinal data may exhibit non-Gaussian margins, nonlinear dynamics, and response vectors with composition that varies across waves. To account for these features, we introduce a vector drawable vine (VD-vine) copula that extends conventional drawable vine copulas from scalar to vector-valued nodes. Here, the response vector at each wave forms a multivariate marginal, and serial dependence is captured through a sequence of linking vector copulas. We establish…

超越行动者—伴侣关联：纵向双人数据因果溢出效应的目标试验框架AI 解读

Actor-partner interdependence models (APIMs) describe how one member's exposure is associated with that member's and the partner's outcomes, but actor and partner coefficients are causal only under additional design and identification assumptions. We formulate APIM-style questions as dyadic target trials under within-dyad interference and make three links between the associational and causal formulations explicit. First, under joint exchangeability, positivity, and a…

线性模型中的内生异方差AI 解读

Linear regressions with endogeneity are widely used to estimate causal effects. This paper studies a framework that involves two common practical issues: endogeneity of the regressors and heteroskedasticity that depends on endogenous regressors, i.e., endogenous heteroskedasticity. To address the inconsistency of the two-stage least squares estimator in this scenario, and recover the causal parameters of interest, we develop a framework for practical estimation and inference…

稳定的政策学习AI 解读

In evidence-based policymaking, typically one experimental sample is observed, then a learned policy recommendation is implemented at scale. Policies learned from the experimental data can perform well in expected welfare, yet random sampling in the experiment can produce recommendations with poor welfare outcomes. In this paper, we ask: how should policy learning algorithms balance expected welfare against sampling risk? Our main contribution is to show that algorithmic…

条件秩对秩回归AI 解读

Rank-rank regression is commonly employed in economic research as a way of capturing the relationship between two economic variables. The slope of this regression is the Spearman rank correlation, a classical measure of association. However, in many applications it is common practice to include covariates to account for differences in association levels between groups as defined by the values of these covariates. This is either done by including the covariates or by modeling…