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Recent challenges in model specification testing based on different data structures

2022-09-29
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Recent challenges in model specification testing based on different data structures Wednesday, November 9th, 8:00 PT / 11:00 ET / 17:00 CET Model specification testing is one of the essential methodological tasks in statistics. Recently, with the development of different data structures, envisioning…
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Regularization by Noise for Stochastic Differential and Stochastic Partial Differential Equations

2022-06-03
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Regularization by Noise for Stochastic Differential and Stochastic Partial Differential Equations The regularizing effects of noisy perturbations of differential equations is a central subject of stochastic analysis. Recent breakthroughs initiated a new wave of interest, particularly concerning…
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Theory and Methods for Inference in Multi-armed Bandit Problems

2022-04-19
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Theory and Methods for Inference in Multi-armed Bandit Problems Multi-armed bandit (MAB) algorithms have been argued for decades as useful to conduct adaptively-randomized experiments. By skewing the allocation of the arms towards the more efficient or informative ones, they have the potential to…
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Selection of Priors in Bayesian Structural Equation Modeling

2022-02-14
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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
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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
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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…