论文检索

各期处理均连续分布时的双重差分估计量AI 解读

When studying the effects of taxes, tariffs, or prices using panel data, the treatment is often continuously distributed in every period. We develop difference-in-differences (DID) estimators for such settings. We partition units into switchers, whose treatment changes between consecutive periods, and stayers, whose treatment remains constant. Under a parallel-trends assumption, we show that the slopes of switchers' potential outcomes with respect to the treatment are…

用于交错实施的固定效应因果森林及其医保扩张应用AI 解读

Difference-in-differences with staggered adoption identifies group-time average treatment effects ATT(g,t) by comparing each cohort to units not yet treated, which avoids the "forbidden comparisons" that bias two-way fixed-effects estimators when effects are heterogeneous. This paper studies the covariate-conditional version of that object, tau_{g,t}(x), and estimates it with a fixed-effects causal forest. Within each (g,t) comparison block, the outcome and treatment are…

贝叶斯变平面回归AI 解读

Change-plane regression represents treatment effect heterogeneity through an interpretable rule that assigns patients to two groups according to whether a linear score of baseline covariates crosses a threshold. Although easy to communicate, likelihood-based inference for the hard threshold is nonregular, invalidating standard large-sample approximations. We develop a Bayesian framework that replaces the sharp indicator with a smooth probit gate at a declared smoothing scale…

因果治愈模型的贝叶斯方法AI 解读

Time-to-event data often include individuals who will never experience the failure event, and are therefore considered cured. In such settings, frequently encountered in clinical research, a substantial proportion of patients may remain event-free throughout the observation period, leading to the appearance of a survival plateau that is commonly interpreted as evidence of a cured fraction. Analysing such data requires inference on the cure fraction and on the survival…

贝叶斯迁移学习：面向高维线性回归的估计与推断改进AI 解读

Transfer learning enhances model performance in a target population with limited samples by leveraging knowledge from related studies. While many works focus on improving predictive performance, challenges of statistical inference persist. Bayesian approaches naturally offer uncertainty quantification for parameter estimates, yet existing Bayesian transfer learning methods are typically limited to single-source scenarios or require individual-level data. We introduce…

混杂变量缺失下因果推断的双重稳健加权回归AI 解读

Missingness in confounders is common in observational studies and presents substantial challenges for causal effect estimation by weakening identification and increasing sensitivity to model misspecification. Within the missing-indicator framework, existing approaches typically rely on a single working model and achieve consistency only when that model is correctly specified and are therefore singly robust. In this article, we develop a doubly robust missing indicator…

小样本临床试验中协变量调整风险差的评估AI 解读

Binary endpoints are common in clinical trials and conditional odds ratios have traditionally been used to assess treatment effects. However, the interpretation of odds ratios is difficult, they are non-collapsible, and conditional odds-ratios obtained from regression models additionally rely on modeling assumptions in order to be a relevant overall summary measure for the trial. As an alternative, risk differences have gained increasing prominence as a more interpretable,…

比较观测与预测结果估计处理效应：有效推断条件与实践示例AI 解读

Prediction models developed before the introduction of a new treatment may be used to estimate treatment effects of newly introduced treatments. One approach, known as model-based clinical evaluation in radiotherapy, does this by comparing observed outcomes under a new treatment with predicted outcomes had these patients received the standard treatment. This article clarifies the relevant conditions needed for valid average treatment effect estimation using this approach,…

预测变量个数发散时基于加权残差过程的回归模型检验AI 解读

The integrated conditional moment (ICM) test is a classical and widely used method for assessing the adequacy of regression models. Although it performs well in fixed-dimension settings, its behavior changes dramatically when the predictor dimension diverges: in such regimes, the limiting null and alternative distributions of the ICM statistic degenerate to fixed constants. Moreover, when the number of predictors diverges, the commonly used wild bootstrap no longer…

异质处理效应下工具变量方法的实用指南AI 解读

Instrumental variables (IV) methods are central to applied microeconomics. While classical approaches assume linear models with constant effects, recent literature has shifted toward the local average treatment effect (LATE) framework to accommodate heterogeneous treatment effects. This paper provides a practical guide to aligning empirical practice with recent theory. We first examine how different specifications with covariates lead to distinct weighted averages of…

两样本孟德尔随机化的自适应惩罚与自助平滑推断AI 解读

Two-sample Mendelian randomization (MR) uses genetic variants as instrumental variables to estimate causal effects from observational data using summary association statistics. However, horizontal pleiotropy can invalidate standard MR estimators and lead to biased causal inference. Pleiotropy-robust methods have been proposed to address this issue, including regularization-based approaches such as MR-Lasso. However, MR-Lasso may fail to identify invalid instruments…

SPYCE：结果依赖删失下早期亨廷顿病终点的双重稳健估计AI 解读

Clinical trials for neurodegenerative diseases must identify sensitive endpoints -- outcomes that change rapidly enough to detect treatment effects. In Huntington disease, this requires measuring how outcomes change as participants approach Stage 1. Yet many participants exit studies before reaching this stage, making their time to Stage 1 right-censored. Estimating how outcomes change requires models for both time to Stage 1 and time to study exit. When participants with…

向量检索作为最近邻匹配：因果推断中的 RAG 政策学习AI 解读

We propose one-step and two-step methods for policy learning with retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). We formulate RAG-based action selection under the potential outcome framework. In the two-step method, vector search retrieves action-specific neighboring evidence in an embedding space, the generator estimates conditional expected outcomes or their contrasts, and a plug-in rule selects an action. This formulation connects action-specific vector search with…

ATLAS：异质环境中不变且可迁移潜在因子的识别AI 解读

This paper considers a multi-environment factor model in which high-dimensional covariates are collected from heterogeneous environments, with auxiliary labels available in a subset of these environments. The joint distribution of the covariates may vary across environments, whereas the latent structure is decomposed into invariant factors with shared loadings and heterogeneous factors with environment-specific loadings. Such a model is motivated by transfer learning and…

龟壳聚类：面向判别式聚类的混合方法及其在流式细胞术等数据中的应用AI 解读

Generative approaches to clustering provide information on geometric properties of clusters, whereas discriminative approaches provide boundaries between clusters. Ideas from both approaches are incorporated to present a fully unsupervised, probabilistic, and discriminative clustering method via a regularized mutual information objective function, wherein a mixture of mixtures of Gaussian and uniform distributions is used for formulation of the conditional model. Overfitting…

时变混杂下平均处理效应估计的缺失数据方法比较AI 解读

Missing data and confounding are common in real-world statistical applications, yet few studies have examined how imputation methods perform under time-varying confounding in binary variables, or how missingness mechanism, missing rate, missingness location and sample size jointly affect performance and the underlying identifiability conditions. We generated synthetic data and conducted a simulation study comparing missing data methods across scenarios varying these factors.…

高维高斯图模型的 spike-and-slab 贝叶斯计算AI 解读

Gaussian graphical models are widely used to infer dependence structures. Bayesian methods are appealing to quantify uncertainty associated with structural learning, i.e., the plausibility of conditional independence statements given the data, and parameter estimates. However, computational demands have limited their application when the number of variables is large, which prompted the use of pseudo-Bayesian approaches. We propose fully Bayesian algorithms that provably…

网络元回归模型假设影响的模拟评估AI 解读

Network meta-regression (NMR) extends network meta-analysis (NMA) by synthesizing evidence on multiple treatments while adjusting for potential effect modifiers. By accounting for effect modification, NMR can reduce between-study heterogeneity and improve the validity of relative treatment effects, providing insight regarding characteristics impacting treatment performance. However, choosing between available NMR models is complex, as each model addresses a similar, but…

非平稳时间序列局部化部分和的函数型中心极限定理AI 解读

A localized functional central limit theorem is established for kernel-weighted partial sum processes of piecewise locally stationary time series under geometric decay of the physical dependence measure. The localized process is shown to converge weakly to a centered Gaussian random distribution in $D'(0,1)$, and the limit extends naturally to an isonormal Gaussian process on $L^2([0,1])$. Weak convergence is further derived for processes indexed by totally bounded subsets…

分数阶单整的半参数估计：局部 Whittle 方法评估AI 解读

Fractionally integrated time series, exhibiting long memory with slowly decaying autocorrelations, are frequently encountered in economics, finance, and related fields. Since the seminal work of Robinson (1995), a variety of semiparametric local Whittle estimators have been proposed for estimating the memory parameter $d$, each with a distinct range of validity and different robustness properties, leaving applied researchers to decide which to use and under what conditions.…

基于方差的治疗效应异质性检验AI 解读

This paper proposes a robust nonparametric hypothesis test for the existence of heterogeneous treatment effects. We focus on the variance of the Conditional Average Treatment Effect (CATE) as a natural omnibus parameter, where a non-zero variance implies the presence of relevant heterogeneity. Standard inference for this parameter faces a fundamental theoretical challenge. On one hand, evaluating variance components on the same sample leads to null degeneracy, where the…

表示感知的分布鲁棒优化：一个知识迁移框架AI 解读

Distributionally robust optimization (DRO) protects statistical learning against distributional shifts by optimizing the worst-case performance over a set of perturbed distributions. However, standard DRO formulations often treat all feature perturbations equally. This can be unnecessarily conservative when external knowledge suggests that the predictive signal is embedded in a low-dimensional representation of covariates. We propose REpresentation-Aware Distributionally…

因果异质性的分辨率AI 解读

Causal subgroup analyses often report a small number of groups summarizing treatment effect heterogeneity, as if that number were a well-defined estimand. Outside genuinely latent class populations, however, a ``true'' subgroup count is model dependent rather than a population functional. We replace it with a new population estimand, the resolution profile, a functional of the causal feature law giving the fewest groups explaining a prescribed fraction of causal…

调查时间序列的贝叶斯季节调整AI 解读

Seasonal adjustment procedures used by national statistical offices -- X-11 and X-12-ARIMA -- treat each survey estimate as an exact observation, discarding the accompanying standard errors that survey methodologists routinely compute. This paper closes that gap by embedding time-varying sampling error variances into a Basic Structural Model (BSM), extending a recently proposed Dynamic Mini-Max (DMM) Bayesian framework for survey estimation. Via the Harvey-Todd equivalence,…