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广义似不相关局部投影AI 解读

We develop a flexible framework for Bayesian estimation of impulse responses using Local Projections (LPs) with instrumental variables. It accommodates multiple shocks and instruments, accounts for autocorrelation in multi-step forecasts by jointly modeling all LPs as a seemingly unrelated system of equations, defines a flexible yet parsimonious joint prior for impulse responses based on a Gaussian Process, and allows for joint inference about the entire vector of impulse…

有效再生数与每日感染时间序列的联合估计：新冠应用AI 解读

The time-varying effective reproduction number is an important parameter for communication and policy decisions during an epidemic. In this paper, we present new statistical methods for estimating the reproduction number based on the popular model of \citet{cori2013new} which defines the effective reproduction number based on self-exciting dynamics of new infections. Such a model is conceptually simple and less susceptible to misspecifications than more complicated…

用显示偏好度量隐藏的消费者异质性AI 解读

Consumer heterogeneity in revealed-preference data is larger than bilateral rationality tests can reveal. We construct a continuous nonparametric metric of this hidden heterogeneity by repeatedly subsampling choices, partitioning agents into groups whose pooled data are jointly rationalisable under a chosen consistency criterion and recording how often each pair is co-classified. The resulting kernel is positive semi-definite, embeds the population in a Hilbert space, and…

高阶有效估计量：综述与模拟基准研究AI 解读

Higher-order efficient estimators extend standard first-order semiparametric estimators by replacing second-order residuals with third- or higher-order terms, potentially enabling asymptotic efficiency under slower nuisance function convergence rates and improving finite-sample performance. Existing methods achieve higher-order expansions through structurally different approximation strategies, including basis truncation, kernel smoothing, and highly adaptive lasso (HAL)…

超越主层可忽略性：主层分层的非参数敏感性界AI 解读

Principal stratification is an effective framework addressing intermediate variables in causal inference. However, point identification of the principal causal effects (PCEs) often requires the untestable principal ignorability (PI) assumption. This article develops a nonparametric sensitivity analysis framework for evaluating PI violations. We introduce a margin-free bounding factor parameterized by the selection and outcome relative risks of an unmeasured confounder. Using…

递归似然模型加速推断的稳定化加权子抽样AI 解读

Inference for models with recursively defined likelihoods is computationally demanding, limiting scalability to large datasets. We propose a stabilised weighted subsampling methodology for accelerated inference based on an unbiased estimator of the log-likelihood. By assigning higher sampling probabilities to early observations, the method reduces the effective depth of recursive likelihood evaluations and hence computational cost. However, sampling probabilities that decay…

基于典型相关分析的高维变换因子模型结构变化检测AI 解读

This paper develops a canonical-correlation-based method for detecting structural changes in high-dimensional transformed factor models. The proposed approach exploits the low-rank canonical-correlation structure induced by dynamically dependent common factors, while serially uncorrelated idiosyncratic components correspond to a noise subspace with zero canonical correlations. We construct an eigenvalue-ratio criterion that measures residual dynamic dependence in the…

纵向数据中罕见事件反事实风险的可扩展估计AI 解读

Estimating the causal effect of time-varying treatments on survival outcomes in large observational studies is computationally demanding, particularly when outcomes are rare. While g-formula-based methods such as the iterative conditional expectation (ICE) estimator provide a principled framework for longitudinal causal inference, they become computationally expensive, especially when bootstrap-based variance estimation is required. In addition, outcome rarity at each time…

高维数据中的逐单元格与逐案例稳健协方差估计AI 解读

The sample covariance matrix is a cornerstone of multivariate statistics, but it is highly sensitive to outliers. These can be casewise outliers, such as cases belonging to a different population, or cellwise outliers, which are deviating cells (entries) of the data matrix. Recently some robust covariance estimators have been developed that can handle both types of outliers, but their computation is only feasible up to at most 20 dimensions. To remedy this we propose the…

英国 NHS 急性医院的数字成熟度与技术效率：英格兰横截面证据AI 解读

Whether investment in digital health technology is associated with differences in hospital productivity is a question of substantial policy relevance, yet interpretation is constrained by challenges in causal identification and prior evidence is mixed. Technical efficiency in NHS acute hospital trusts in England is estimated using Bayesian stochastic frontier analysis. A four-input Cobb--Douglas production function incorporating clinical full-time equivalents, administrative…

基于振荡控制归一化流的传输MCMC非空验证AI 解读

Transport MCMC trains a normalizing flow to precondition Metropolis--Hastings proposals, achieving high empirical efficiency on challenging posteriors; yet no prior work produces a numerically non-vacuous, rigorous spectral-gap bound for such samplers. We establish the first such bounds. For independence MH on the banana family we certify (γ^\ast = 0.828) at (D = 2) (covering in the original space) and (γ^\ast \ge 7.6\times 10^{-4}) at (D = 5) (covering in an analytically…

机器学习辅助协变量调整的设计型边层面因果推断AI 解读

We study design-based causal inference for edge-level outcomes in directed networks under dyadic interference. In this setting, outcomes are defined on directed edges and depend on the joint treatment assignments of pairs of units, inducing a complex dependence structure that invalidates standard estimation and inference procedures developed for node-level data. We construct Horvitz--Thompson estimators for a general class of edge-level causal effects and establish their…

通过自归一化检验函数型参数的假设AI 解读

Testing simple or composite hypothesis on a functional parameter has attracted considerable attention in time series analysis. To accommodate for the unknown temporal dependence, classical nonparametric approaches such as block bootstrapping and subsampling all involve a bandwidth parameter, the choice of which can substantially affect the finite sample performance. The self normalization (SN) method is tuning parameter free when applied to the inference of a…

重新审视免带宽推断：样本分割方法AI 解读

The bandwidth-free tests/inferences for a multi-dimensional parameter have attracted considerable attention in econometrics and statistics literature. These tests can be conveniently implemented due to their tuning-parameter free nature and possess more accurate size as compared to the traditional HAC-based approaches, where consistent long run variance estimation was involved. However, when sample size is small/medium, these bandwidth-free tests exhibit large size…

对象值时间序列的变点检测AI 解读

This article is concerned with change point detection for object-valued data that reside in a metric space, which has attracted some recent interests in statistics and econometrics literature. The existing methods either focus on independent data or can only detect change in the Fréchet mean or variance. In this paper, we propose a self-normalization (SN, hereafter) based statistic for detecting a shift in the marginal distribution of object-valued time series. Our test is…

利用最优传输对高维潜在结果与混杂因素进行部分识别AI 解读

Partial identification provides informative causal guarantees when point identification is impossible, but existing approaches based on optimal transport (OT) become computationally and statistically intractable in high-dimensional settings. This limitation is particularly severe when both potential outcomes and confounders are high-dimensional, where classical OT-based bounds suffer from the curse of dimensionality and unfavorable convergence rates. To address this…

中介变量受检测定量下限左删失时的因果间接效应评估AI 解读

Causal mediation analysis is essential for disentangling the mechanisms by which investigational therapeutic and preventive agents impact clinical outcomes. However, the measurement of biological mediators is often subject to left-censoring by technical measurement limitations, most commonly an assay's limit of quantification. This form of censoring can pose severe challenges for both identification and estimation of causal mediation estimands, particularly when the…

网络 knockoffs：在二元空间中控制错误发现AI 解读

Phenomena such as epidemiological processes, hydrologic systems, social platforms, utility services, and supply chains can be represented as topological networks. A central question about these networks concerns connectivity and the permeability of edges. Dyadic regression and related approaches have been proposed to identify network features associated with pairwise node-level differences. In high-dimensional settings, it is important to control the number of spuriously…

扰动下基因调控网络发现的可解释神经常微分方程AI 解读

Modern high-throughput biological datasets containing thousands of perturbations enable large-scale discovery of causal graphs that represent regulatory interactions between genes. Differentiable causal graphical models and regression-based methods have been developed to infer gene regulatory networks (GRNs) from interventional datasets. However, existing approaches fail to capture the non-linear dynamics of biological processes such as cellular differentiation. To address…

延迟结局与错峰入组随机实验的设计型随时有效推断AI 解读

Delayed outcomes are ubiquitous in online experimentation: treatment can affect whether an outcome occurs, when it occurs, and its realized value. To accommodate staggered entry while remaining robust to environmental nonstationarity and unit-level heterogeneity, we adopt a design-based perspective and target the sample cumulative reward in each arm as a function of calendar time. Our confidence sequences allow practitioners to continuously monitor the counterfactual…

纵向修正治疗政策对健康结局变化率的效应估计AI 解读

Longitudinal data often contains outcomes measured at multiple visits, and scientific interest may lie in quantifying the effect of an intervention on an outcome's rate of change. For example, one may wish to study the progression (or trajectory) of a disease over time under different hypothetical interventions. We extend the longitudinal modified treatment policy (LMTP) methodology to estimate effects of complex, exposure-dependent interventions on rates of change in an…

通过协变量转移建模高效估计随机实验中的纵向治疗效应AI 解读

We present a regression-adjustment framework designed for the estimation of longitudinal treatment effects in randomized experiments under static regimes. While regression-adjustment methods are useful for variance reduction in randomized experiments by using pre-treatment covariates, they usually focus only on average effects, from which we cannot obtain valuable insights into when the effects appear and how long they continue. To address this issue, we consider…

贝叶斯分布稳健优化中的后验与似然敏感度AI 解读

We introduce the notion of worst-case posterior and worst-case likelihood sensitivity. These measure, respectively, the sensitivity of the expected cost to worst-case perturbations of the posterior distribution and worst-case perturbations of the likelihood of a Bayesian model. Each defines a quantitative measure of robustness. A decision maker concerned about the sensitivity of the out-of-sample expected cost to deviations from her assumptions will want a decision for which…

生存结局下随机治疗干预的去偏推断AI 解读

Estimating the causal effect of a time-dependent treatment on time to death is challenging. In this paper, we formulate the problem using the illness-death model and focus on a stochastic intervention that modifies the hazard governing the transition from no treatment to treatment initiation. Such an intervention can only be implemented at the level of the observed data, whereas the causally valid intervention is defined at the level of the true data-generating process. We…