Robustifying likelihoods by optimistically re-weighting data

M Dewaskar, C Tosh, J Knoblauch… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Likelihood-based inferences have been remarkably successful in wide-spanning application
areas. However, even after due diligence in selecting a good model for the data at hand …

Disparities in influenza vaccination for US adults with disabilities living in community settings by race/ethnicity, 2016–2021

FF Castro, V Varadaraj, NS Reed, BK Swenor - Disability and health …, 2023 - Elsevier
Background There is a paucity of data examining disparities in influenza vaccination at the
intersection of disability and race. Objective To compare the prevalence of influenza …

[HTML][HTML] Bringing home the bacon: Estimating willingness to pay for autonomous grocery delivery across US households

CR Forsythe, CD Harper, JJ Michalek - Transportation Research …, 2024 - Elsevier
We conduct a discrete choice experiment across 771 US households to estimate willingness
to pay (WTP) values for autonomous and human grocery delivery. We estimate that urban …

Disciplined saddle programming

P Schiele, E Luxenberg, S Boyd - arXiv preprint arXiv:2301.13427, 2023 - arxiv.org
We consider convex-concave saddle point problems, and more generally convex
optimization problems we refer to as $\textit {saddle problems} $, which include the partial …

Binary Classification: Is Boosting stronger than Bagging?

D Bertsimas, V Stoumpou - arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.19200, 2024 - arxiv.org
Random Forests have been one of the most popular bagging methods in the past few
decades, especially due to their success at handling tabular datasets. They have been …

Determining occupational accidents baseline ratios by considering a synthetic population: The case of Spain

J Olivella Nadal, G Calleja Sanz, I Fuentes Ribas… - PLoS one, 2023 - journals.plos.org
In most countries, a government agency or collaborating organization gathers information on
occupational accidents. Comparisons based on a single factor such as autonomous …

Development of Synergistic Electrochemical Catalysis for Advancing CO2 Utilization

N Fujinuma - 2022 - search.proquest.com
Electrochemical CO 2 utilization is an attractive process for realizing carbon-neutral
chemical production due to its electricity-driven ambient conditions, compatibility with …

Econometric Estimation of Consumer Responses to Personal Transportation Policies and Technologies

CR Forsythe - 2023 - search.proquest.com
Transportation is the largest contributing sector of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the
United States (US). I present three works that focus on ways in which policy and technology …

A New Computational Algorithm for Assessing Overdispersion in Machine Learning Count Models with Python

LPL Fávero, A Duarte, HP Santos - 2024 - preprints.org
Count data analysis presents unique challenges due to its discrete nature, often exhibiting
excessive zeros and overdispersion. To address these complexities, count models, such as …

Profile Matching in Observational Studies with Multilevel Data

B McGrath - 2022 - search.proquest.com
Matching is a popular method to use with observational data to replicate desired features of
a randomized control trial. A common problem encountered in observational studies is the …