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存在干扰时网络实验的最优设计AI 解读

Experimental design under network interference is challenging because outcomes may depend on the treatment assignments of neighboring units. Existing approaches account for network structure but are typically assessed on small or simplified networks, limiting their applicability to complex real-world settings. We propose a network-aware treatment allocation framework that jointly accounts for allocation balance and network topology via an optimality criterion based on the…

隐藏结果的近端因果推断AI 解读

Methods that rely on proxies, without imposing strong parametric structure, are increasingly used to deal with unobserved variables in causal inference. One influential line of this work reconstructs latent distributions used to identify the target functional by exploiting eigenvalue eigenvector structure. Within this framework, we first establish identification of the full data law in the presence of hidden outcomes, and then develop influence function based estimators for…

从风险预测到风险机制：道路安全与车险的多分辨率因果表示AI 解读

Operational risk models can estimate event frequencies precisely while leaving the underlying mechanisms weakly resolved. We study this resolution mismatch using motor insurance and road safety. A revisable DAG represents trip-level crash generation; a separate predictive layer links annual rating information to latent driving states; and an observation process maps crashes into recorded liability claims. Compatibility sets collect the structural and crash-to-claim laws that…

协变量数量发散时协变量自适应随机化的理论性质AI 解读

Covariate-adaptive randomization procedures are widely used in clinical trials to improve covariate balance. In modern applications, experimenters often have access to many covariates, motivating the need for a theory of covariate-adaptive randomization procedures with a diverging number of covariates. This paper studies two classes of covariate-adaptive randomization procedures, referred to as imbalance-efficient covariate-adaptive randomization and imbalance-robust…

通过双重差分学习说服效应AI 解读

We develop a difference-in-differences framework to measure the persuasive impact of informational treatments on behavior in staggered treatment settings. We introduce two causal parameters, the forward and backward average persuasion rates on the treated, which refine the average treatment effect on the treated. The forward rate excludes cases of "preaching to the converted," while the backward rate omits "talking to a brick wall" cases. The backward rate coincides with the…

亚组治疗效应的贝叶斯收缩方法：统一实现与比较AI 解读

Evaluating treatment effect heterogeneity across patient subgroups is a fundamental aspect of clinical trial analysis. These analyses have inherent limitations due to small sample sizes and the substantial number of subgroups investigated. There is a tendency to focus on extreme estimates, which may reflect random variation rather than true effects, potentially leading to spurious clinical conclusions. Statisticians in regulatory agencies and pharmaceutical companies have…

加权目标量的稳健推断AI 解读

Researchers often conduct inference on weighted estimands, defined as weighted averages of group-level effects. Example settings include event studies with cohort-level effects and experiments with site-level effects. Under heterogeneous effects, different weighting schemes yield estimands with distinct empirical and policy interpretations, leading to ambiguity and disagreement over the choice of weights. I establish bounds on differences between weighted estimands and…

异质性治疗效应蒸馏：因果推断中的稳定亚组估计AI 解读

Recent methodological developments have introduced new black-box approaches to better estimate heterogeneous treatment effects; however, these methods fall short of providing interpretable characterizations of the underlying individuals who may be most at risk or benefit most from receiving the treatment, thereby limiting their practical utility. In this work, we introduce causal distillation trees (CDT) to estimate interpretable subgroups. CDT allows researchers to fit any…

存在网络溢出的交错双重差分：识别与估计AI 解读

This paper studies staggered difference-in-differences designs in which treated and comparison units can be exposed to other units' adoption. Using an exposure mapping specified by the researcher, we define realized and counterfactual exposure states and decompose the total effect into a switching effect of own adoption and a spillover effect under no own adoption. Conditional parallel trends identify the total and switching effects by matching, respectively, the…

利用非二元工具变量估计平均处理效应AI 解读

Non-binary instrumental variables, especially continuous ones, are common in practice. A binary recoding induces a Wald ratio but may discard useful variation and reduce efficiency. Although fully nonparametric approaches can in principle use the entire instrument, they often require high-dimensional nuisance estimation which can be unstable with rich covariates. We address this problem by developing a generalized Wald estimand for binary treatments that uses the full…

潜在结果有界时的最优实验设计与估计AI 解读

I study the optimal design and analysis of randomized experiments for estimating finite-population average treatment effects when potential outcomes are known to be bounded, as with binary outcomes. Among all assignment mechanisms and a broad class of affine estimators, worst-case mean-squared error (MSE) is minimized by independent random assignment and an unconventional regression of the support-midpoint-centered outcome on the recentered treatment, with no intercept. This…

缺乏严格重叠时的分位数处理效应估计AI 解读

We consider the problem of estimating quantile treatment effects without assuming strict overlap, i.e., we do not assume that the propensity score is bounded away from zero. More specifically, we consider an inverse probability weighting (IPW) approach for estimating quantiles in the potential outcomes framework and pay special attention to scenarios where the propensity scores can tend to zero as a regularly varying function. Our approach effectively considers a…

使用合并逻辑回归的因果生存分析估计方程AI 解读

Background: Pooled logistic regression models are commonly applied in survival analysis. However, the standard implementation can be computationally demanding, which is further exacerbated when using the nonparametric bootstrap for inference. To ease these computational burdens, investigators often coarsen time intervals or assume a parametric functional form for time. These approaches impose restrictive assumptions, which may not always have a well-motivated substantive…

以 α 期望福利为目标的政策学习AI 解读

This paper proposes an optimal policy that targets the average welfare of the worst-off $α$-fraction of the post-treatment outcome distribution. We refer to this policy as the $α$-Expected Welfare Maximization ($α$-EWM) rule, where $α\in (0,1]$ denotes the size of the subpopulation of interest. The $α$-EWM rule interpolates between the expected welfare ($α=1$) and the Rawlsian welfare ($α\rightarrow 0$). For $α\in (0,1)$, an $α$-EWM rule can be interpreted as a…

迭代式分布计算多项逻辑回归AI 解读

This article introduces an iterative distributed computing estimator for the multinomial logistic regression model with large choice sets. Compared to the maximum likelihood estimator, the proposed iterative distributed estimator achieves significantly faster computation and, when initialized with a consistent estimator, attains asymptotic efficiency under a weak dominance condition. Additionally, we propose a parametric bootstrap inference procedure based on the iterative…

最大得分模型与线性规划下的二元分类AI 解读

This paper presents a computationally efficient method for binary classification using Manski's (1975, 1985) maximum score model when covariates are discretely distributed and parameters are partially but not point identified. We establish minimax-regret-optimal classification rules that take account of partial identification of the model's parameters. We bound misclassification probabilities and expected excess regret induced by sampling uncertainty. We also describe an…

多暴露与多结局空间回归的谱混杂调整AI 解读

Characterizing social vulnerability is fundamental to disaster response planning. Numerous vulnerability indicators have been developed, but they are typically not validated for their predictive power over the outcomes of interest. As with many environmental health studies where interventions are impractical or unethical, validation of social vulnerability against public health outcomes is observational and relies on spatially-dependent data. Observational studies are…

测地线双重差分AI 解读

Difference-in-differences (DID) is a widely used quasi-experimental design for causal inference, traditionally applied to scalar or Euclidean outcomes, while extensions to outcomes residing in non-Euclidean spaces remain limited. Existing methods for such outcomes have primarily focused on univariate distributions, leveraging linear operations in the space of quantile functions, but these approaches cannot be directly extended to outcomes in general metric spaces. In this…

随机对象与函数型数据的测地线合成控制AI 解读

We introduce a geodesic synthetic control method for causal inference with panel outcomes that are random objects in a geodesic metric space. Examples include distributions, compositions, networks, symmetric positive-definite matrices, trees and functional data, among other data types that require a geometry beyond Euclidean vector spaces. The proposed method replaces Euclidean weighted averages by weighted Fréchet means and defines treatment effects as geodesics connecting…

测地空间中函数型数据与随机对象的回归不连续设计AI 解读

Regression discontinuity designs (RDDs) are widely used for causal inference in observational studies with cutoff-based treatment assignment, primarily for Euclidean outcomes. We propose the geodesic regression discontinuity design (GRDD), which extends RDDs to complex non-Euclidean outcomes, including networks, compositional data, functional data, and other random objects in geodesic metric spaces. Since algebraic operations are unavailable in such spaces, we define the…

PLRD：部分线性断点回归推断AI 解读

Regression discontinuity designs have become one of the most popular research designs in empirical economics. We argue, however, that the widely used approaches to building confidence intervals in regression discontinuity designs often exhibit suboptimal behavior in practice. We propose a new estimator, the partially linear regression discontinuity (PLRD) estimator that, in set of a simulation studies carefully calibrated to twelve high-profile applications of regression…