Multi-armed Bandit Models for the Optimal Design of Clinical Trials: Benefits and Challenges [0.03%]
临床试验最优设计的多臂乐队模型：好处和挑战
Sofía S Villar,Jack Bowden,James Wason
Sofía S Villar
Multi-armed bandit problems (MABPs) are a special type of optimal control problem well suited to model resource allocation under uncertainty in a wide variety of contexts. Since the first publication of the optimal solution of the classic M...
On the Question of Effective Sample Size in Network Modeling: An Asymptotic Inquiry [0.03%]
论网络建模中的有效样本量问题：一种渐近性探讨
Eric D Kolaczyk,Pavel N Krivitsky
Eric D Kolaczyk
The modeling and analysis of networks and network data has seen an explosion of interest in recent years and represents an exciting direction for potential growth in statistics. Despite the already substantial amount of work done in this ar...
Amy Richardson,Michael G Hudgens,Peter B Gilbert et al.
Amy Richardson et al.
This paper considers conducting inference about the effect of a treatment (or exposure) on an outcome of interest. In the ideal setting where treatment is assigned randomly, under certain assumptions the treatment effect is identifiable fro...
Tyler J VanderWeele,Eric J Tchetgen Tchetgen,M Elizabeth Halloran
Tyler J VanderWeele
Causal inference with interference is a rapidly growing area. The literature has begun to relax the "no-interference" assumption that the treatment received by one individual does not affect the outcomes of other individuals. In this paper ...
Q- and A-learning Methods for Estimating Optimal Dynamic Treatment Regimes [0.03%]
Q-学习和A-学习在估计最优动态治疗方案中的应用
Phillip J Schulte,Anastasios A Tsiatis,Eric B Laber et al.
Phillip J Schulte et al.
In clinical practice, physicians make a series of treatment decisions over the course of a patient's disease based on his/her baseline and evolving characteristics. A dynamic treatment regime is a set of sequential decision rules that opera...
Think globally, act globally: An epidemiologist's perspective on instrumental variable estimation [0.03%]
放眼全球，立足全球——工具变量估计的流行病学视角
Sonja A Swanson,Miguel A Hernán
Sonja A Swanson
We appreciated Imbens' summary and reflections on the state of instrumental variable (IV) methods from an econometrician's perspective. His review was much needed as it clarified several issues that have been historically a source of confus...
Bradley Efron
Bradley Efron
Empirical Bayes methods use the data from parallel experiments, for instance observations Xk ~
Adrian E Raftery,Leontine Alkema,Patrick Gerland
Adrian E Raftery
The United Nations regularly publishes projections of the populations of all the world's countries broken down by age and sex. These projections are the de facto standard and are widely used by international organizations, governments and r...
Raymond J Carroll
Raymond J Carroll
In the United States the preferred method of obtaining dietary intake data is the 24-hour dietary recall, yet the measure of most interest is usual or long-term average daily intake, which is impossible to measure. Thus, usual dietary intak...
Discussion of "Estimating Random Effects via Adjustment for Density Maximization" by C. Morris and R. Tang [0.03%]
关于C. Morris和R. Tang所著"通过调整密度最大化估计随机效应"的讨论
P Lahiri,Santanu Pramanik
P Lahiri