What to do when everything happens at once: analytic approaches to estimate the health effects of co-occurring social policies

EC Matthay, LM Gottlieb, D Rehkopf… - Epidemiologic …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Social policies have great potential to improve population health and reduce health
disparities. Increasingly, those doing empirical research have sought to quantify the health …

Statistical inference of the value function for reinforcement learning in infinite-horizon settings

C Shi, S Zhang, W Lu, R Song - Journal of the Royal Statistical …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Reinforcement learning is a general technique that allows an agent to learn an optimal
policy and interact with an environment in sequential decision-making problems. The …

[HTML][HTML] In defense of the indefensible: A very naive approach to high-dimensional inference

S Zhao, D Witten, A Shojaie - Statistical science: a review journal of …, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
A great deal of interest has recently focused on conducting inference on the parameters in a
high-dimensional linear model. In this paper, we consider a simple and very naïve two-step …

Breaking the Curse of Nonregularity with Subagging---Inference of the Mean Outcome under Optimal Treatment Regimes

C Shi, W Lu, R Song - Journal of Machine Learning Research, 2020 - jmlr.org
Precision medicine is an emerging medical approach that allows physicians to select the
treatment options based on individual patient information. The goal of precision medicine is …

Reprint: Statistical inference for linear mediation models with high-dimensional mediators and application to studying stock reaction to COVID-19 pandemic

X Guo, R Li, J Liu, M Zeng - Journal of Econometrics, 2024 - Elsevier
Mediation analysis draws increasing attention in many research areas such as economics,
finance and social sciences. In this paper, we propose new statistical inference procedures …

Statistical inference for linear mediation models with high-dimensional mediators and application to studying stock reaction to COVID-19 pandemic

X Guo, R Li, J Liu, M Zeng - Journal of Econometrics, 2023 - Elsevier
Mediation analysis draws increasing attention in many research areas such as economics,
finance and social sciences. In this paper, we propose new statistical inference procedures …

Success factors in national team football: an analysis of the UEFA EURO 2020

V Renner, K Görgen, A Woll, H Wäsche… - Journal of Quantitative …, 2024 - degruyter.com
Identifying success factors in football is of sporting and economic interest. However,
research in this field for national teams and their competitions is rare despite the popularity …

Estimation and inference for high dimensional generalized linear models: A splitting and smoothing approach

Z Fei, Y Li - Journal of Machine Learning Research, 2021 - jmlr.org
The focus of modern biomedical studies has gradually shifted to explanation and estimation
of joint effects of high dimensional predictors on disease risks. Quantifying uncertainty in …

Neighborhood-based cross fitting approach to treatment effects with high-dimensional data

OD Agboola, H Yu - Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, 2023 - Elsevier
High-dimensional data are increasingly popular in various physical, biological and social
disciplines. A common existing approach of repeatedly splitting data was suggested to …

Statistical inference via conditional Bayesian posteriors in high-dimensional linear regression

T Wu, N N. Narisetty, Y Yang - Electronic Journal of Statistics, 2023 - projecteuclid.org
We propose a new method under the Bayesian framework to perform valid inference for low
dimensional parameters in high dimensional linear models under sparsity constraints. Our …