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Selection of Priors in Bayesian Structural Equation Modeling

2022-02-14

Selection of Priors in Bayesian Structural Equation Modelling Structural equation modeling (SEM) is an important framework within the social sciences that encompasses a wide variety of statistical models. Traditionally, estimation of SEMs has relied on maximum likelihood. Unfortunately, there also…

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Recent Advances in Approximate Bayesian Inference

2022-02-08

Recent Advances in Approximate Bayesian Inference In approximate Bayesian computation, likelihood function is intractable and needs to be itself estimated using forward simulations of the statistical model (Beaumont et al., 2002; Marin et al., 2012; Sisson et al., 2019; Martin et al., 2020). Recent…

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Recent Advancements in Applied Instrumental Variable Methods

2022-02-07

Recent Advancements in Applied Instrumental Variable Methods Instrumental variables (IV) is one of most important and widespread research designs in economics and statistics, as it can identify causal effects in the presence of unobserved confounding. Over the past 30 years the science of IV has…

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Inclusion Process and Sticky Brownian Motions

2021-12-24

Inclusion Process and Sticky Brownian Motions The ninth “One World webinar” organized by YoungStatS will take place on February 9th, 2022. Inclusion process (IP) is a stochastic lattice gas where particles perform random walks subjected to mutual attraction. For the inclusion process in the…

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Novel Algebraic Approaches to Maximum Likelihood Estimation

2021-10-04

Novel Algebraic Approaches to Maximum Likelihood Estimation The seventh “One World webinar” organized by YoungStatS will take place on November 17th, 2021. Maximum likelihood estimation (MLE) is a tool in data analysis to estimate a probability distribution or density in a statistical model for…

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Advancements in Symbolic Data Analysis

2021-09-30

Advancements in Symbolic Data Analysis The sixth “One World webinar” organized by YoungStatS will take place on November 8th, 2021. With the development of digital systems, very large datasets have become routine. However, standard statistical approaches do not have the power or flexibility to…