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Authors and titles for March 2021

[401] arXiv:2103.11937 [pdf, other]

Title: Regularized Optimal Transport for Dynamic Semi-supervised Learning

Mourad El Hamri, Younès Bennani

Subjects: Machine Learning (stat.ML); Machine Learning (cs.LG)

[402] arXiv:2103.11952 [pdf, other]

Title: Uncovering Bias in Order Assignment

Darren Grant

Comments: 29 pages of text, 7 tables

Journal-ref: Economic Inquiry, Volume 61, Issue 1, January 2023, pages 82-98

Subjects: Applications (stat.AP); Econometrics (econ.EM)

[403] arXiv:2103.12019 [pdf, other]

Title: Statistically-Robust Clustering Techniques for Mapping Spatial Hotspots: A Survey

Yiqun Xie, Shashi Shekhar, Yan Li

Comments: 39 pages, 5 figures, accepted by ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)

Subjects: Machine Learning (stat.ML); Machine Learning (cs.LG); Computation (stat.CO)

[404] arXiv:2103.12094 [pdf, other]

Title: Modelling intransitivity in pairwise comparisons with application to baseball data

Harriet Spearing, Jonathan Tawn, David Irons, Tim Paulden

Comments: 24 pages, 2 figures, 1 tables in the main text

Journal-ref: Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics. (2003), pp.1-19

Subjects: Methodology (stat.ME); Applications (stat.AP); Computation (stat.CO)

[405] arXiv:2103.12170 [pdf, other]

Title: krippendorffsalpha: An R Package for Measuring Agreement Using Krippendorff's Alpha Coefficient

John Hughes

Subjects: Methodology (stat.ME)

[406] arXiv:2103.12176 [pdf, other]

Title: New Perspectives on Centering

Jack B. Prothero, Jan Hannig, J.S. Marron

Comments: 28 pages, 24 figures

Subjects: Methodology (stat.ME)

[407] arXiv:2103.12188 [pdf, other]

Title: Partitioned hybrid learning of Bayesian network structures

Jireh Huang, Qing Zhou

Comments: 44 pages

Subjects: Machine Learning (stat.ML); Machine Learning (cs.LG)

[408] arXiv:2103.12206 [pdf, other]

Title: A New Causal Approach to Account for Treatment Switching in Randomized Experiments under a Structural Cumulative Survival Model

Andrew Ying, Eric J. Tchetgen Tchetgen

Subjects: Methodology (stat.ME); Applications (stat.AP)

[409] arXiv:2103.12214 [pdf, other]

Title: Modeling Random Directions in 2D Simplex Data

Rayleigh Lei, XuanLong Nguyen

Subjects: Methodology (stat.ME)

[410] arXiv:2103.12345 [pdf, other]

Title: The Success of AdaBoost and Its Application in Portfolio Management

Yijian Chuan, Chaoyi Zhao, Zhenrui He, Lan Wu

Subjects: Machine Learning (stat.ML); Machine Learning (cs.LG); Portfolio Management (q-fin.PM)

[411] arXiv:2103.12368 [pdf, other]

Title: A New Approach To Text Rating Classification Using Sentiment Analysis

Thomas Konstantinovsky

Comments: 9 pages,9 figures

Subjects: Machine Learning (stat.ML); Machine Learning (cs.LG)

[412] arXiv:2103.12409 [pdf, other]

Title: Binary disease prediction using tail quantiles of the distribution of continuous biomarkers

Michiel H.J. Paus, Edwin R. van den Heuvel, Marc J.M. Meddens

Comments: 26 pages, 5 figures

Subjects: Methodology (stat.ME); Machine Learning (cs.LG); Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)

[413] arXiv:2103.12581 [pdf, other]

Title: The case for balanced hypothesis tests and equal-tailed confidence intervals

André Gillibert (1 and 2), Jacques Bénichou (2 and 3), Bruno Falissard (1) ((1) Université Paris Sud, Maison de Solenn, Paris, France (2) Department of Biostatistics and Clinical Research, CHU Rouen, Rouen, France (3) Normandie University, Rouen, France)

Comments: 15 pages, 2 figures

Subjects: Other Statistics (stat.OT)

[414] arXiv:2103.12661 [pdf, other]

Title: Bayesian imputation of COVID-19 positive test counts for nowcasting under reporting lag

Radka Jersakova, James Lomax, James Hetherington, Brieuc Lehmann, George Nicholson, Mark Briers, Chris Holmes

Subjects: Applications (stat.AP)

[415] arXiv:2103.12666 [pdf, other]

Title: Nested Gaussian filters for recursive Bayesian inference and nonlinear tracking in state space models

Sara Pérez-Vieites, Joaquín Míguez

Subjects: Computation (stat.CO)

[416] arXiv:2103.12711 [pdf, other]

Title: A Pseudo-Metric between Probability Distributions based on Depth-Trimmed Regions

Guillaume Staerman, Pavlo Mozharovskyi, Pierre Colombo, Stéphan Clémençon, Florence d'Alché-Buc

Subjects: Machine Learning (stat.ML); Machine Learning (cs.LG)

[417] arXiv:2103.12725 [pdf, other]

Title: SLOE: A Faster Method for Statistical Inference in High-Dimensional Logistic Regression

Steve Yadlowsky, Taedong Yun, Cory McLean, Alexander D'Amour

Subjects: Machine Learning (stat.ML); Machine Learning (cs.LG); Statistics Theory (math.ST)

[418] arXiv:2103.12802 [pdf, other]

Title: Numerical Characterization of Support Recovery in Sparse Regression with Correlated Design

Ankit Kumar, Sharmodeep Bhattacharyya, Kristofer Bouchard

Subjects: Methodology (stat.ME); Applications (stat.AP)

[419] arXiv:2103.12831 [pdf, other]

Title: An Eigenmodel for Dynamic Multilayer Networks

Joshua Daniel Loyal, Yuguo Chen

Comments: 55 pages, 18 figures

Subjects: Methodology (stat.ME)

[420] arXiv:2103.12846 [pdf, other]

Title: On the global identifiability of logistic regression models with misclassified outcomes

Rui Duan, Yang Ning, Jiasheng Shi, Raymond J Carroll, Tianxi Cai, Yong Chen

Subjects: Statistics Theory (math.ST)

[421] arXiv:2103.12853 [pdf, other]

Title: A unifying review of NDE models towards optimal decision support

Elizabeth Bismut, Daniel Straub

Comments: Title changed to accurately reflect content. Details added to Sections 1, 2 and 3

Journal-ref: Structural Safety 97 (2022) 102213

Subjects: Applications (stat.AP)

[422] arXiv:2103.12866 [pdf, other]

Title: PAC-Bayesian theory for stochastic LTI systems

Deividas Eringis, John Leth, Zheng-Hua Tan, Rafal Wisniewski, Alireza Fakhrizadeh Esfahani, Mihaly Petreczky

Subjects: Machine Learning (stat.ML); Machine Learning (cs.LG)

[423] arXiv:2103.12900 [pdf, html, other]

Title: Loss based prior for the degrees of freedom of the Wishart distribution

Luca Rossini, Cristiano Villa, Sotiris Prevenas, Rachel McCrea

Subjects: Methodology (stat.ME)

[424] arXiv:2103.12903 [pdf, other]

Title: Joint Dynamic Models and Statistical Inference for Recurrent Competing Risks, Longitudinal Marker, and Health Status

Lili Tong, Piaomu Liu, Edsel Pena

Subjects: Methodology (stat.ME)

[425] arXiv:2103.12946 [pdf, other]

Title: Envelope Methods with Ignorable Missing Data

Linquan Ma, Lan Liu, Wei Yang

Subjects: Methodology (stat.ME); Statistics Theory (math.ST); Computation (stat.CO)

[426] arXiv:2103.12967 [pdf, other]

Title: Heavy-tailed distribution for combining dependent $p$-values with asymptotic robustness

Yusi Fang, George C. Tseng, Chung Chang

Comments: 34 pages, 3 figures

Subjects: Methodology (stat.ME)

[427] arXiv:2103.12984 [pdf, other]

Title: A tale of two metrics: Polling and financial contributions as a measure of performance

Moeen Mostafavi, Maria Phillips, Yichen Jiang, Michael D. Porter, Paul Freedman

Subjects: Applications (stat.AP)

[428] arXiv:2103.13051 [pdf, other]

Title: Pair-switching rerandomization

Ke Zhu, Hanzhong Liu

Subjects: Methodology (stat.ME)

[429] arXiv:2103.13059 [pdf, other]

Title: Towards Optimal Algorithms for Multi-Player Bandits without Collision Sensing Information

Wei Huang, Richard Combes, Cindy Trinh

Comments: 24 pages, COLT 2022

Subjects: Machine Learning (stat.ML); Machine Learning (cs.LG)

[430] arXiv:2103.13131 [pdf, other]

Title: Bayesian Inference for Brain Activity from Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Collected at Two Spatial Resolutions

Andrew S. Whiteman, Andreas J. Bartsch, Jian Kang, Timothy D. Johnson

Comments: 37 pages, 12 figures

Journal-ref: Ann. Appl. Stat. (2022) 16(4): 2626-2647

Subjects: Methodology (stat.ME); Applications (stat.AP)

[431] arXiv:2103.13142 [pdf, other]

Title: Fitting phase-type frailty models

Jorge Yslas

Subjects: Statistics Theory (math.ST); Probability (math.PR)

[432] arXiv:2103.13202 [pdf, other]

Title: Anova of Balanced Variance Component Models

Martin Bilodeau

Comments: 8 pages, education

Subjects: Statistics Theory (math.ST)

[433] arXiv:2103.13213 [pdf, other]

Title: Consistency of Bayesian inference with Gaussian process priors for a parabolic inverse problem

Hanne Kekkonen

Subjects: Statistics Theory (math.ST); Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)

[434] arXiv:2103.13221 [pdf, other]

Title: Mixed Effects Envelope Models

Yuyang Shi, Linquan Ma, Lan Liu

Subjects: Methodology (stat.ME)

[435] arXiv:2103.13228 [pdf, other]

Title: Social and material vulnerability in the face of seismic hazard: an analysis of the Italian case

Oleksandr Didkovskyi, Giovanni Azzone, Alessandra Menafoglio, Piercesare Secchi

Comments: 23 page, 20 figures; abstract corrected

Subjects: Applications (stat.AP)

[436] arXiv:2103.13233 [pdf, other]

Title: Dimension Reduction Forests: Local Variable Importance using Structured Random Forests

Joshua Daniel Loyal, Ruoqing Zhu, Yifan Cui, Xin Zhang

Comments: 36 pages, 7 figures

Subjects: Methodology (stat.ME)

[437] arXiv:2103.13236 [pdf, other]

Title: Meta Analysis of Bayes Factors

Stavros Nikolakopoulos, Ioannis Ntzoufras

Comments: 19 pages, 2 figures

Subjects: Methodology (stat.ME); Applications (stat.AP)

[438] arXiv:2103.13238 [pdf, other]

Title: An Efficient Method for Computing Expected Value of Sample Information for Survival Data from an Ongoing Trial

Mathyn Vervaart, Mark Strong, Karl P. Claxton, Nicky J. Welton, Torbjørn Wisløff, Eline Aas

Comments: 12 pages, 2 figures

Subjects: Methodology (stat.ME)

[439] arXiv:2103.13248 [pdf, other]

Title: Extending the Mann-Kendall test to allow for measurement uncertainty

Stavros Nikolakopoulos, Eric Cator, Mart P. Janssen

Comments: 19 pages, 1 figure

Subjects: Methodology (stat.ME); Statistics Theory (math.ST)

[440] arXiv:2103.13296 [pdf, other]

Title: Consistency between household and county measures of K-12 onsite schooling during the COVID-19 pandemic

Carly Lupton-Smith, Elena Badillo Goicoechea, Megan Collins, Justin Lessler, M. Kate Grabowski, Elizabeth A. Stuart

Subjects: Applications (stat.AP); Methodology (stat.ME)

[441] arXiv:2103.13324 [pdf, other]

Title: Flexible Predictive Distributions from Varying-Thresholds Modelling

Gerhard Tutz

Subjects: Methodology (stat.ME)

[442] arXiv:2103.13336 [pdf, other]

Title: Epidemic change-point detection in general integer-valued time series

Mamadou Lamine Diop, William Kengne

Subjects: Statistics Theory (math.ST)

[443] arXiv:2103.13342 [pdf, other]

Title: The Shapley Value of coalition of variables provides better explanations

Salim I. Amoukou, Nicolas J-B. Brunel, Tangi Salaün

Comments: This paper has been withdrawn by the authors, because it has now been merged with (and superseded by) a parallel work arXiv:2106.03820

Subjects: Machine Learning (stat.ML); Machine Learning (cs.LG)

[444] arXiv:2103.13357 [pdf, other]

Title: A Two-Stage Variable Selection Approach for Correlated High Dimensional Predictors

Zhiyuan Li

Comments: 30 pages, 7 figures

Subjects: Methodology (stat.ME); Applications (stat.AP); Computation (stat.CO); Machine Learning (stat.ML)

[445] arXiv:2103.13385 [pdf, other]

Title: Sequential pCN-MCMC, an efficient MCMC method for Bayesian inversion of high-dimensional multi-Gaussian priors

Sebastian Reuschen, Fabian Jobst, Wolfgang Nowak

Subjects: Computation (stat.CO)

[446] arXiv:2103.13435 [pdf, other]

Title: Maximum pairwise-rank-likelihood-based inference for the semiparametric transformation model

Tao Yu, Pengfei Li, Baojiang Chen, Ao Yuan, Jing Qin

Comments: 6 tables and 2 figures

Subjects: Methodology (stat.ME); Statistics Theory (math.ST)

[447] arXiv:2103.13466 [pdf, other]

Title: Asymptotic Freeness of Layerwise Jacobians Caused by Invariance of Multilayer Perceptron: The Haar Orthogonal Case

Benoit Collins, Tomohiro Hayase

Comments: Any comments are welcomed. In v4, we changed notations for readability

Journal-ref: Communications in Mathematical Physics (2022), 1-25

Subjects: Machine Learning (stat.ML); Machine Learning (cs.LG); Mathematical Physics (math-ph); Probability (math.PR)

[448] arXiv:2103.13490 [pdf, other]

Title: Statistical Integration of Heterogeneous Data with PO2PLS

Said el Bouhaddani, Hae-Won Uh, Geurt Jongbloed, Jeanine Houwing-Duistermaat

Comments: 36 pages, 4 figures, Submitted to Journal of the American Statistical Association

Subjects: Methodology (stat.ME)

[449] arXiv:2103.13494 [pdf, other]

Title: Investigating the Relationship Between Air Quality and COVID-19 Transmission

Laura Albrecht, Paulina Czarnecki, Bennet Sakelaris

Comments: Supplementary materials available at: this https URL

Journal-ref: J. Data Science 19 (2021) 485-497

Subjects: Applications (stat.AP)

[450] arXiv:2103.13510 [pdf, other]

Title: A scalable hierarchical lasso for gene-environment interactions

Natalia Zemlianskaia, W. James Gauderman, Juan Pablo Lewinger

Subjects: Methodology (stat.ME); Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)