Pub Date : 2024-11-05DOI: 10.1080/00031305.2024.2423814
Giovanni Nattino, Robert Ashmead, Bo Lu
Probability surveys are a major source of population representative data for policy research and program evaluation. However, the data come with the added complications of being observational and s...
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Pub Date : 2024-10-29DOI: 10.1080/00031305.2024.2421370
Tingxuan Wu, Cindy Feng, Longhai Li
Accurate model performance assessment in survival analysis is imperative for robust predictions and informed decision-making. Traditional residual diagnostic tools like martingale and deviance resi...
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Pub Date : 2024-10-29DOI: 10.1080/00031305.2024.2421361
Sergio Díaz-Aranda, Jose Aguilar, Juan Marcos Ramírez, David Rabanedo, Antonio Fernández Anta, Rosa E. Lillo
The Network Scale-up Methods (NSUM) are methods to estimate unknown populations based on indirect surveys in which the participants provide information about aggregated data of their acquaintances....
{"title":"Performance Analysis of NSUM Estimators in Social-Network Topologies","authors":"Sergio Díaz-Aranda, Jose Aguilar, Juan Marcos Ramírez, David Rabanedo, Antonio Fernández Anta, Rosa E. Lillo","doi":"10.1080/00031305.2024.2421361","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00031305.2024.2421361","url":null,"abstract":"The Network Scale-up Methods (NSUM) are methods to estimate unknown populations based on indirect surveys in which the participants provide information about aggregated data of their acquaintances....","PeriodicalId":50801,"journal":{"name":"American Statistician","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-10-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142588641","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-10-15DOI: 10.1080/00031305.2024.2413081
Bernhard Klar
We propose a mean functional that exists for arbitrary probability distributions and characterizes the Pareto distribution within the set of distributions with finite left endpoint. This is in shar...
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Pub Date : 2024-10-07DOI: 10.1080/00031305.2024.2408007
Fabian Obster, Christian Heumann
For grouped covariates, we propose a framework for boosting that allows for sparsity within and between groups. By using component-wise and group-wise gradient ridge boosting simultaneously with ad...
{"title":"Sparse-group boosting: Unbiased group and variable selection","authors":"Fabian Obster, Christian Heumann","doi":"10.1080/00031305.2024.2408007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00031305.2024.2408007","url":null,"abstract":"For grouped covariates, we propose a framework for boosting that allows for sparsity within and between groups. By using component-wise and group-wise gradient ridge boosting simultaneously with ad...","PeriodicalId":50801,"journal":{"name":"American Statistician","volume":"6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142384284","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-09-25DOI: 10.1080/00031305.2024.2407495
Peiyao Huang, Shuwei Li, Xinyuan Song
With the rapid development of data acquisition and storage space, massive data sets exhibited with large sample size emerge increasingly and make more advanced statistical tools urgently need. To a...
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Pub Date : 2024-09-19DOI: 10.1080/00031305.2024.2407478
J. G. Liao
A dose-response curve is essential for determining the safe dosage of a drug and is widely used in bioassay and in phase 1 clinical trials. It is generally accepted that the probability of death or...
{"title":"An effective and small sample-size valid confidence interval for isotonic dose-response curves by inverting a partial likelihood ratio test","authors":"J. G. Liao","doi":"10.1080/00031305.2024.2407478","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00031305.2024.2407478","url":null,"abstract":"A dose-response curve is essential for determining the safe dosage of a drug and is widely used in bioassay and in phase 1 clinical trials. It is generally accepted that the probability of death or...","PeriodicalId":50801,"journal":{"name":"American Statistician","volume":"9 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142245223","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-09-11DOI: 10.1080/00031305.2024.2402246
Gabriel Calvo, Carmen Armero, Bernd Grimm, Christophe Ley
Wheelchair basketball, regulated by the International Wheelchair Basketball Federation, is a sport designed for individuals with physical disabilities. This paper presents a data-driven tool that e...
{"title":"Selecting the best compositions of a wheelchair basketball team: a data-driven approach","authors":"Gabriel Calvo, Carmen Armero, Bernd Grimm, Christophe Ley","doi":"10.1080/00031305.2024.2402246","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00031305.2024.2402246","url":null,"abstract":"Wheelchair basketball, regulated by the International Wheelchair Basketball Federation, is a sport designed for individuals with physical disabilities. This paper presents a data-driven tool that e...","PeriodicalId":50801,"journal":{"name":"American Statistician","volume":"17 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142313702","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-09-10DOI: 10.1080/00031305.2024.2402898
Richard M. Vogel, Simon Michael Papalexiou, Jonathan R. Lamontagne, Flannery Dolan
Heavy tails (HT) arise in many applications and their presence can disrupt statistical inference, yet the HT statistical literature requires a theoretical background most practicing statisticians l...
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Pub Date : 2024-09-09DOI: 10.1080/00031305.2024.2402264
Andrew B. Whetten, Trevor J. Hefley, David A. Haukos
Continuous processes in most applications are measured discretely with error. This complicates the task of detecting intersections and the number of intersections between two continuous processes (...
大多数应用中的连续过程都是离散测量的,存在误差。这使得检测两个连续过程之间的交集和交集数(...
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