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Self-fulfilling Bandits: Dynamic Selection in Algorithmic Decision-making 自我实现的强盗:算法决策中的动态选择
Jin Li, Ye Luo, Xiaowei Zhang
This paper identifies and addresses dynamic selection problems that arise in online learning algorithms with endogenous data. In a contextual multi-armed bandit model, we show that a novel bias (self-fulfilling bias) arises because the endogeneity of the data influences the choices of decisions, affecting the distribution of future data to be collected and analyzed. We propose a class of algorithms to correct for the bias by incorporating instrumental variables into leading online learning algorithms. These algorithms lead to the true parameter values and meanwhile attain low (logarithmic-like) regret levels. We further prove a central limit theorem for statistical inference of the parameters of interest. To establish the theoretical properties, we develop a general technique that untangles the interdependence between data and actions.
本文识别并解决了在使用内生数据的在线学习算法中出现的动态选择问题。在上下文多臂强盗模型中,我们发现了一种新的偏差(自我实现偏差),因为数据的内生性影响了决策的选择,影响了未来收集和分析数据的分布。我们提出了一类算法,通过将工具变量纳入领先的在线学习算法来纠正偏差。这些算法导致真实的参数值,同时获得低(对数样)后悔水平。进一步证明了感兴趣参数统计推断的中心极限定理。为了建立理论属性,我们开发了一种通用技术来解开数据和动作之间的相互依赖关系。
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引用次数: 1
Enhancing Delphi Method with Algorithmic Estimates for Software Effort Estimation: An Experimental Study 用算法估计改进德尔菲法进行软件工作量估算的实验研究
Tharwon Arnuphaptrairong
Literature review shows that more accurate software effort and cost estimation methods are needed for software project management success. Expert judgment and algorithmic model estimation are two predominant methods discussed in the literature. Both are reported almost at the comparable level of accuracy performance. The combination of the two methods is suggested to increase the estimation accuracy. Delphi method is an encouraging structured expert judgment method for software effort group estimation but surprisingly little was reported in the literature. The objective of this study is to test if the Delphi estimates will be more accurate if the participants in the Delphi process are exposed to the algorithmic estimates. A Delphi experiment where the participants in the Delphi process were exposed to three algorithmic estimates – Function Points, COCOMO estimates, and Use Case Points, was therefore conducted. The findings show that the Delphi estimates are slightly more accurate than the statistical combination of individual expert estimates, but they are not statistically significant. However, the Delphi estimates are statistically significant more accurate than the individual estimates. The results also show that the Delphi estimates are slightly less optimistic than the statistical combination of individual expert estimates but they are not statistically significant either. The adapted Delphi experiment shows a promising technique for improving the software cost estimation accuracy.
文献综述表明,软件项目管理的成功需要更精确的软件工作量和成本估算方法。专家判断和算法模型估计是文献中讨论的两种主要方法。据报道,这两种方法的准确度表现几乎不相上下。建议将两种方法结合使用以提高估计精度。德尔菲法是一种令人鼓舞的用于软件工作量估算的结构化专家判断方法,但令人惊讶的是,文献报道很少。本研究的目的是测试如果德尔菲过程中的参与者暴露于算法估计,德尔菲估计是否会更准确。因此进行了德尔福实验,其中德尔福过程中的参与者暴露于三种算法估计-功能点,COCOMO估计和用例点。结果表明,德尔菲估计比个别专家估计的统计组合略准确,但不具有统计学意义。然而,德尔菲估计在统计上比个人估计更准确。结果还表明,德尔菲估计略低于个别专家估计的统计组合,但也不具有统计显著性。适应性德尔菲实验显示了一种很有前途的提高软件成本估算精度的方法。
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引用次数: 1
The Relationship between Toxic Leadership Behavior and Employee Silence: A Quantitative Study 有毒领导行为与员工沉默关系的定量研究
Nathaniel Coakley
This study examined the relationship between toxic leadership and employee silence among the Department of Defense civil service employees located in the southeastern region of the United States. Hobfoll’s (1989) conservation of resources theory provided the theoretical foundation for this study. The researcher used a non-experimental correlational research design. The researcher collected 130 completed surveys via an online survey platform (Survey Monkey©). The results from this study showed there was a significant positive relationship between toxic leadership and employee silence. This study suggests that employees who experience or witness toxic behaviors by leaders tend to withhold valuable information that may impact the performance or productivity of an organization.
本研究调查了位于美国东南部地区的国防部公务员中有毒领导与员工沉默之间的关系。Hobfoll(1989)的资源守恒理论为本研究提供了理论基础。研究者采用了非实验相关研究设计。研究者通过在线调查平台(survey Monkey©)收集了130份完成的调查问卷。本研究结果表明,有毒领导与员工沉默之间存在显著的正相关关系。这项研究表明,经历或目睹领导有毒行为的员工往往会隐瞒可能影响组织绩效或生产力的有价值信息。
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引用次数: 4
Donuts and Distant CATEs: Derivative Bounds for RD Extrapolation 甜甜圈和遥远的CATEs: RD外推的导数界
Connor Dowd
Regression Discontinuity (RD) uses policy thresholds to identify causal treatment effects at the threshold. In most settings, the Local Average Treatment Effect (LATE) at the threshold is not the parameter of interest. I provide high level smoothness conditions under which extrapolation across the threshold is possible. Under these restrictions, both estimation and inference for the LATE in other locations is possible. In some situations, extrapolation may be necessary to merely estimate the LATE at the threshold. RD donuts are one such situation, and I provide results allowing estimation and inference in that setting as well.
回归不连续(RD)使用策略阈值来识别阈值处的因果处理效果。在大多数情况下,阈值处的局部平均处理效果(LATE)不是感兴趣的参数。我提供了高水平的平滑条件,在这种条件下,可以通过阈值进行外推。在这些限制下,对其他位置的LATE进行估计和推断是可能的。在某些情况下,可能需要外推法来估计阈值处的LATE。RD甜甜圈就是这样一种情况,我提供的结果也允许在这种情况下进行估计和推断。
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引用次数: 4
Consistent Spread Dynamics for CVA Risk Charge and Historical Value-at-Risk by Means of Cross Sectional / Consolidated Bucket Link Copula Simulation 基于截面/合并桶链耦合仿真的CVA风险收费与历史风险值的一致扩散动力学
Christian Buch Kjeldgaard
This paper describes the modelling of spread risk, in case of missing or illiquid market data, by using a subset of good quality liquid bond/credit default swap (CDS) spread time series. The proposed method links copula simulation to the actual historical spread dynamics. This is important when calculating credit valuation adjustment (CVA) risk charge and Value-at-Risk (VaR) with historical simulation. The methodology center around buckets of similar spreads. Buckets with good data, are straight forward, whereas buckets without data rely on a cross sectional model spread based on other buckets with good data. Residuals from regression of the bucket spread returns against market index returns are used to derive a link for each bucket. The link is subsequently used for simulating the spread dynamics in case of missing or illiquid spreads, using a modified one factor copula. A link between the actual and simulated residuals maintaining the risk dynamics is thus ensured. The result of the copula simulation is transformed into quantiles that are plugged into residual distributions from actual quality data, thereby maintaining the properties of actual market data such that the choice of copula only affects the risk dynamics, not the distributions of the risk factors.
本文通过使用高质量的流动性债券/信用违约互换(CDS)价差时间序列子集,描述了在缺少或缺乏流动性市场数据的情况下的价差风险建模。该方法将耦合仿真与实际的历史扩散动力学联系起来。这在使用历史模拟计算信用估值调整(CVA)风险费用和风险价值(VaR)时非常重要。该方法的核心是类似的价差。具有良好数据的桶是直接的,而没有数据的桶依赖于基于具有良好数据的其他桶的横截面模型扩展。桶差回报对市场指数回报的回归残差用于推导每个桶的链接。随后,使用改进的单因素联系法,将该链接用于模拟缺失或非流动性价差情况下的价差动态。因此,确保了维持风险动态的实际和模拟残差之间的联系。copula模拟的结果被转换成分位数,这些分位数被插入到实际质量数据的残差分布中,从而保持了实际市场数据的特性,使得copula的选择只影响风险动态,而不影响风险因素的分布。
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引用次数: 0
Common and Idiosyncratic Conditional Volatility Factors: Theory and Empirical Evidence 共同和特殊的条件波动因素:理论和经验证据
F. Blasques, Enzo D’Innocenzo, S. J. Koopman
We propose a multiplicative dynamic factor structure for the conditional modelling of the variances of an N-dimensional vector of financial returns. We identify common and idiosyncratic conditional volatility factors. The econometric framework is based on an observation-driven time series model that is simple and parsimonious. The common factor is modeled by a normal density and is robust to fat-tailed returns as it averages information over the cross-section of the observed N-dimensional vector of returns. The idiosyncratic factors are designed to capture the erratic shocks in returns and therefore rely on fat-tailed densities. Our model is potentially of a high-dimension, is parsimonious and it does not necessarily suffer from the curse of dimensionality. The relatively simple structure of the model leads to simple computations for the estimation of parameters and signal extraction of factors. We derive the stochastic properties of our proposed dynamic factor model, including bounded moments, stationarity, ergodicity, and filter invertibility. We further establish consistency and asymptotic normality of the maximum likelihood estimator. The finite sample properties of the estimator and the reliability of our method to track the common conditional volatility factor are investigated by means of a Monte Carlo study. Finally, we illustrate our approach with two empirical studies. The first study is for a panel of financial returns from ten stocks of the S&P100. The second study is for the panel of returns from all S&P100 stocks.
我们提出了一个乘法动态因子结构的条件建模的方差的n维向量的金融回报。我们确定了共同的和特殊的条件波动因素。计量经济学框架是基于一个简单而吝啬的观测驱动的时间序列模型。公共因子由正态密度建模,并且对厚尾回报具有鲁棒性,因为它在观察到的n维回报向量的横截面上平均信息。特殊因素的设计是为了捕捉回报中的不稳定冲击,因此依赖于肥尾密度。我们的模型是潜在的高维,是简约的,它不一定遭受维度的诅咒。由于模型结构相对简单,使得参数估计和因子信号提取的计算简便。我们推导了我们提出的动态因子模型的随机性质,包括有界矩、平稳、遍历和滤波器可逆性。进一步建立了极大似然估计量的相合性和渐近正态性。利用蒙特卡罗方法研究了估计器的有限样本性质和该方法跟踪共同条件波动因子的可靠性。最后,我们用两个实证研究来说明我们的方法。第一项研究是针对标普100指数中10只股票的财务回报进行的。第二项研究针对的是所有标准普尔100指数成分股的回报率。
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引用次数: 0
Some Remarks on CCP-based Estimators of Dynamic Models 关于基于ccp的动态模型估计量的若干问题
M. Fosgerau, E. Melo, M. Shum, Jesper Riis-Vestergaard Sørensen
Abstract This note provides several remarks relating to the conditional choice probability (CCP) based estimation approaches for dynamic discrete-choice models. Specifically, the Arcidiacono and Miller (2011) estimation procedure relies on the ”inverse-CCP” mapping ψ p from CCPs to choice-specific value functions. Exploiting the convex-analytic structure of discrete choice models, we discuss two approaches for computing this mapping, using either linear or convex programming, for models where the utility shocks can follow arbitrary parametric distributions. Furthermore, the ψ function is generally distinct from the ”selection adjustment” term (i.e. the expectation of the utility shock for the chosen alternative), so that computational approaches for computing the latter may not be appropriate for computing ψ .
摘要本文提供了一些关于基于条件选择概率(CCP)的动态离散选择模型估计方法的注释。具体来说,Arcidiacono和Miller(2011)的估计过程依赖于从ccp到特定选择值函数的“逆ccp”映射。利用离散选择模型的凸解析结构,我们讨论了计算这种映射的两种方法,使用线性或凸规划,用于效用冲击可以遵循任意参数分布的模型。此外,ψ函数通常不同于“选择调整”项(即对所选替代方案的效用冲击的期望),因此计算后者的计算方法可能不适用于计算ψ。
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引用次数: 2
Improving External Validity of Machine Learning, Reduced Form, and Structural Macroeconomic Models using Panel Data 使用面板数据提高机器学习、简化形式和结构宏观经济模型的外部有效性
Cameron Fen, Samir S Undavia
We show that adding countries as a panel dimension to macroeconomic data can statistically significantly improve the generalization ability of structural and reduced-form models, as well as allow machine learning methods to outperform these and other macroeconomic forecasting models. Using GDP forecasts for evaluation, this procedure reduces root mean squared error (RMSE) by 12% across horizons and models for certain reduced-form models and by 24% across horizons for structural DSGE models. Removing US data from the training set and forecasting out-of-sample country-wise, we show that both reduced form and structural models become more policy invariant, and outperform a baseline model that uses US data only. Finally, given the comparative advantage of "nonparametric" machine learning forecasting models in a data-rich regime, we demonstrate that our recurrent neural network (RNN) model and automated machine learning (AutoML) approach outperforms all baseline economic models in this regime. Robustness checks indicate that machine learning outperformance is reproducible, numerically stable, and generalizes across models.
我们表明,将国家作为宏观经济数据的面板维度可以在统计上显着提高结构和简化形式模型的泛化能力,并使机器学习方法优于这些模型和其他宏观经济预测模型。使用GDP预测进行评估,该程序将某些简化模型的跨层和模型的均方根误差(RMSE)降低了12%,结构DSGE模型的跨层误差降低了24%。从训练集中删除美国数据并预测样本外国家,我们表明,简化形式和结构模型都变得更具政策不变性,并且优于仅使用美国数据的基线模型。最后,考虑到“非参数”机器学习预测模型在数据丰富的情况下的比较优势,我们证明了我们的循环神经网络(RNN)模型和自动机器学习(AutoML)方法在该情况下优于所有基线经济模型。鲁棒性检查表明,机器学习的优异表现是可重复的,数值稳定的,并且可以推广到各个模型。
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Constrained Optimal Execution in Limit Order Book Market with Power-shaped Market Depth 具有幂型市场深度的限价单市场约束最优执行
Weipin Wu, Jianjun Gao, Dian Yu
Instead of using the classical block-shaped market depth to build the optimal execution model, this work studies the constrained optimal execution problem in a limit order book (LOB) market with a power-shaped market depth. Different from the linear price impact derived from the framework of block-shaped market depth, the price impact generated from the framework of our power-shaped market depth becomes a nonlinear function, which is consistent with the empirical studies. We also consider a class of state-dependent upper and lower bound constraints on trading strategies, which includes non-negative constraint (or non-short selling constraint) as its special case. Even though both the power-shaped market depth and trading strategy constraints make it hardly to solve such an optimal execution problem analytically, we still develop some significant properties on the optimal execution policy and optimal execution cost of our model. From some illustrative examples, we find that the optimal execution policy derived from our model is quite different from the one generated from the model with the block-shaped market depth when the market exhibits finite resiliency. However, when the market resilience is infinite, the obtained result becomes different, i.e., the optimal execution policies derived from these two kind of models are equivalent. For a special model with the stochastic block-shaped market depth and infinite market resilience, we successfully derive the analytical solution for such an optimal execution problem by utilizing the state separation property induced from its structure. The revealed optimal execution strategy is a piece-wise affine function with respect to the current remaining position, which can be computed off-line efficiently by solving two coupled equations. Finally, due to its explicit solution, we utilize this optimal execution model to demonstrate that the model admits no price magnification opportunity for the two-sided trading strategy.
本文研究了具有幂形市场深度的限价单(LOB)市场的约束最优执行问题,而不是使用经典的块形市场深度来建立最优执行模型。与块状市场深度框架下的线性价格影响不同,我国权力状市场深度框架下产生的价格影响成为非线性函数,这与实证研究结果一致。我们还考虑了交易策略的一类状态依赖的上界和下界约束,其中包括非负约束(或非卖空约束)作为其特例。尽管权力型市场深度和交易策略约束使得这一最优执行问题难以解析解决,但我们仍然得到了该模型的最优执行策略和最优执行成本的一些重要性质。通过一些实例,我们发现当市场弹性有限时,由我们的模型得到的最优执行策略与由具有块形市场深度的模型得到的最优执行策略有很大的不同。然而,当市场弹性无穷大时,得到的结果就不同了,即这两种模型得到的最优执行策略是等价的。对于具有随机块形市场深度和无限市场弹性的特殊模型,我们利用其结构引起的状态分离特性,成功地推导出了这类最优执行问题的解析解。所揭示的最优执行策略是一个关于当前剩余位置的分段仿射函数,它可以通过求解两个耦合方程来离线高效地计算。最后,由于其显式解,我们利用该最优执行模型证明该模型不允许双边交易策略的价格放大机会。
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Crowd-Sourcing for Data Science and Quantifiable Challenges: Optimal Contest Design 数据科学和可量化挑战的众包:最佳竞赛设计
Milind Dawande, G. Janakiraman, Goutham Takasi
We study the optimal design of a crowd-sourcing contest in settings where the output (from the contestants) is quantifiable -- for example, a data science challenge. This setting is in contrast to settings where the output is only qualitative and cannot be quantified in an objective manner -- for example, when the goal of the contest is to design a logo. The rapidly growing literature on the design of crowd-sourcing contests focuses largely on ordinal contests -- these are contests where contestants' outputs are ranked by the organizer and awards are based on the relative ranks. Such contests are ideally suited for the latter setting, where output is qualitative. For our setting (quantitative output), it is possible to design contests where awards are based on the actual outputs and not on their ranking alone -- thus, our space of contest designs includes ordinal contests but is significantly larger. We derive an easy-to-implement contest design for this setting and establish its optimality.
我们研究了在输出(来自参赛者)是可量化的环境下的众包竞赛的最佳设计——例如,数据科学挑战。这种设置与那些输出只是定性的,不能以客观的方式量化的设置形成对比——例如,当比赛的目标是设计一个标志时。关于众包竞赛设计的快速增长的文献主要集中在顺序竞赛上——在这些竞赛中,参赛者的产出由组织者排名,奖励基于相对排名。这种竞赛非常适合后者,因为后者的输出是定性的。对于我们的设置(定量输出),我们可以设计基于实际输出而不是排名的奖励竞赛——因此,我们的竞赛设计空间包括序数竞赛,但要大得多。我们推导了一个易于实现的竞赛设计,并确定了其最优性。
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