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超越单调性假设的半参数主分层分析AI 解读

Intercurrent events, common in clinical trials and observational studies, affect the existence or interpretation of final outcomes. Principal stratification addresses this challenge by defining local average treatment effect estimands within subpopulations, but often relies on restrictive assumptions such as monotonicity and counterfactual intermediate independence. To overcome these limitations, we propose a semiparametric framework for principal stratification analysis…

具有低秩与稀疏结构的面板 VAR 联合学习AI 解读

Panel vector auto-regressive (VAR) models are widely used to capture the dynamics of multivariate time series across different subpopulations, where each subpopulation shares a common set of variables. In this work, we propose a panel VAR model with a shared low-rank structure, modulated by subpopulation-specific weights, and complemented by idiosyncratic sparse components. To ensure parameter identifiability, we impose structural constraints that lead to a nonsmooth,…

非可分三角模型中个体处理效应分布的推断AI 解读

In this paper, we develop inference methods for the distribution of heterogeneous individual treatment effects (ITEs) in the nonseparable triangular model with a binary endogenous treatment and a binary instrument of Vuong and Xu (2017) and Feng, Vuong, and Xu (2019). We focus on the estimation of the cumulative distribution function (CDF) of the ITE, which can be used to address a wide range of practically important questions such as inference on the proportion of…

回归模型中的对数与零值问题AI 解读

The log transformation is widely used in linear regression, mainly because coefficients are interpretable as proportional effects. Yet this practice has fundamental limitations, most notably that the log is undefined at zero, creating an identification problem. We propose a new estimator, iterated OLS (iOLS), which targets the normalized average treatment effect, preserving the percentage-change interpretation while addressing these limitations. Our procedure is the…

概率性与非线性压缩感知AI 解读

We present a smooth probabilistic reformulation of $\ell_0$ regularized regression that does not require Monte Carlo sampling and allows for the computation of exact gradients, facilitating rapid convergence to local optima of the best subset selection problem. The method drastically improves convergence speed compared to similar Monte Carlo based approaches. Furthermore, we empirically demonstrate that it outperforms compressive sensing algorithms such as IHT and (Relaxed-)…

面板数据的超阈值峰值建模：两层分组广义帕累托回归AI 解读

Panel data arise in a wide range of application areas, and developing modelling methods for extreme values under such a setup is essential for reliable risk assessment and management. When choosing to model the marginal distributions of univariate extremes, one may wish to balance the flexibility in capturing the heterogeneity among margins and the efficiency of estimation. This can be achieved through a combination of regression techniques and assuming a latent group…

高维 Lasso 区间估计的替代似然近似AI 解读

Classical frequentist approaches to inference for the lasso emphasize exact coverage for each feature, which requires debiasing and severs the connection between confidence intervals and the original lasso estimates. To address this, in earlier work we introduced the idea of average coverage, allowing for biased intervals that align with the lasso point estimates, and proposed the Relaxed Lasso Posterior (RL-P) intervals, which leverage the Bayesian interpretation of the…

利用工具变量处理不可忽略缺失数据的统计方法综述AI 解读

Nonignorable missing data, where the probability of missingness depends on unobserved values, presents a significant challenge in statistical analysis. Traditional methods often rely on strong parametric assumptions that are difficult to verify and may lead to biased estimates if misspecified. Recent advances have introduced the concept of a nonresponse instrument or shadow variable as a powerful tool to enhance model identifiability without requiring full parametric…

整群随机试验中的模型稳健标准化AI 解读

In cluster-randomized trials, generalized linear mixed models and generalized estimating equations have conventionally been the default analytic methods for estimating the average treatment effect as routine practice. However, recent studies have demonstrated that their treatment effect coefficient estimators may correspond to ambiguous estimands when the models are misspecified or when there exists informative cluster sizes. In this article, we present a unified approach…

时间序列网络中的非线性因果关系：运动想象与执行应用AI 解读

Causal interactions in time series networks can be dynamic and nonlinear, making it difficult to identify them using conventional linear causality estimations. We propose a novel approach, called Threshold Autoregressive Modeling for Causality (TAR4C), a causality detection approach built on threshold autoregressive (TAR) models, where a potential driver (cause variable) acts both as a predictor and as a trigger (switching threshold) that governs which autoregressive process…

高维统计推断与充分降维关联下的变量选择AI 解读

Simultaneous variable selection and statistical inference is challenging in high-dimensional data analysis. Most existing post-selection inference methods require explicitly specified regression models, which are often linear, as well as sparsity in the regression model. The performance of such procedures can be poor under either misspecified nonlinear models or a violation of the sparsity assumption. In this paper, we propose a sufficient dimension association (SDA)…

非齐次隐半马尔可夫与惩罚向量自回归的环境风险评估AI 解读

Motivated by the study of pollution trends in the city of Bergen, we introduce a flexible statistical framework for modeling multivariate air pollution data via a nonhomogeneous Hidden Semi-Markov Vector Auto-Regression. The hidden process captures unobserved environmental conditions, while the vector autoregressive structure accounts for temporal autocorrelation and cross-pollutant dependencies. The model further allows time-varying environmental conditions to influence…

双重下降：理解不可识别参数的线性模型估计与过拟合模型AI 解读

We consider ordinary least squares estimation and variations on least squares estimation such as penalized (regularized) least squares and spectral shrinkage estimates for problems with p > n and associated problems with prediction of new observations. After the introduction of Section 1, Section 2 examines a number of commonly used estimators for p > n. Section 3 introduces prediction with p > n. Section 4 introduces notational changes to facilitate discussion of…

因果发现后的因果效应选择后推断AI 解读

Algorithms for constraint-based causal discovery select graphical causal models among a space of possible candidates (e.g., all directed acyclic graphs) by executing a sequence of conditional independence tests. These may be used to inform the estimation of causal effects (e.g., average treatment effects) when there is uncertainty about which covariates ought to be adjusted for, or which variables act as confounders versus mediators. However, naively using the data twice,…

通过函数逼近对随机趋势进行典型相关分析AI 解读

This paper proposes a novel approach for semiparametric inference on the number $s$ of common trends and their loading matrix $ψ$ in $I(1)/I(0)$ systems. It combines functional approximation of limits of random walks and canonical correlations analysis, performed between the $p$ observed time series of length $T$ and the first $K$ discretized elements of an $L^2$ basis. Tests and selection criteria on $s$, and estimators and tests on $ψ$ are proposed; their properties are…

截断现象的传输方法AI 解读

Substantial progress has recently been made in the understanding of the cutoff phenomenon for Markov processes, using an information-theoretic statistics known as varentropy [Sal23; Sal24; Sal25a; PS25]. In the present paper, we propose an alternative approach which bypasses the use of varentropy and exploits instead a new W-TV transport inequality, combined with a classical parabolic regularization estimate [BGL01; OV01]. While currently restricted to non-negatively curved…

事件研究中的时变异质性处理效应AI 解读

This paper examines the identification and estimation of heterogeneous treatment effects in event studies, emphasizing the importance of both lagged dependent variables and treatment effect heterogeneity. We show that omitting lagged dependent variables can induce omitted variable bias in the estimated time-varying treatment effects. We develop a novel semiparametric approach based on a short-T dynamic linear panel model with correlated random coefficients, where the…

加性全局Fréchet回归的变量选择AI 解读

We present a novel framework for variable selection in Fréchet regression with responses in general metric spaces, a setting increasingly relevant for analyzing non-Euclidean data such as probability distributions and covariance matrices. Building on the concept of (weak) Fréchet conditional means, we develop an additive regression model that represents the metric-based discrepancy of the response as a sum of covariate-specific nonlinear functions in reproducing kernel…

纵向修正处理政策的中介效应识别与估计AI 解读

We demonstrate a comprehensive semiparametric approach to causal mediation analysis, addressing the complexities inherent in settings with longitudinal and continuous treatments, confounders, and mediators. Our methodology utilizes a nonparametric structural equation model and a cross-fitted sequential regression technique based on doubly robust pseudo-outcomes, yielding an efficient, asymptotically normal estimator without relying on restrictive parametric modeling…

从预测算法到理论反例的自动生成AI 解读

How can we extract theoretical insights from machine learning algorithms? We take a familiar lesson: researchers often turn their intuitions into theoretical insights by constructing "anomalies" -- specific examples highlighting hypothesized flaws in a theory, such as the Allais paradox and the Kahneman-Tversky choice experiments for expected utility. We develop procedures that replace researchers' intuitions with predictive algorithms: given a predictive algorithm and a…

无混杂与重叠性同时失效时基于增广百分位自助法的稳健敏感性分析AI 解读

The identification of causal effects in observational studies typically relies on two standard assumptions: unconfoundedness and overlap. However, both assumptions are often questionable in practice: unconfoundedness is inherently untestable, and overlap may fail in the presence of extreme unmeasured confounding. While various approaches have been developed to address unmeasured confounding and extreme propensity scores separately, few methods accommodate simultaneous…

高维可加回归的极小极大最优迁移学习AI 解读

This paper studies high-dimensional additive regression under the transfer learning framework, where one observes samples from a target population together with auxiliary samples from different but potentially related regression models. We first introduce a target-only estimation procedure based on the smooth backfitting estimator with local linear smoothing. In contrast to previous work, we establish general error bounds under sub-Weibull($α$) noise, thereby accommodating…

基于马氏距离的最优选择再随机化渐近理论AI 解读

Rerandomization, a design that utilizes pretreatment covariates and improves their balance between different treatment groups, has received attention recently in both theory and practice. From a survey by Bruhn and McKenzie (2009), there are at least two types of rerandomization that are used in practice: the first rerandomizes the treatment assignment until covariate imbalance is below a prespecified threshold; the second randomizes the treatment assignment multiple times…

基于样条从噪声数据中识别偏微分方程模型AI 解读

We propose a two-stage method called \textit{Spline Assisted Partial Differential Equation based Model Identification (SAPDEMI)} to identify partial differential equation (PDE)-based models from noisy data. In the first stage, we employ the cubic splines to estimate unobservable derivatives. The underlying PDE is based on a subset of these derivatives. This stage is computationally efficient: its computational complexity is a product of a constant with the sample size; this…