Two Localization Strategies for Sequential MCMC Data Assimilation with Applications to Nonlinear Non-Gaussian Geophysical Models

本文提出了一种基于序贯马尔可夫链蒙特卡洛(SMCMC)技术的局部数据同化方案,通过两种利用观测空间稀疏性的新策略,在避免粒子滤波权重退化问题的同时,有效处理了高维非线性非高斯地理物理模型(包括 SWOT 和漂流浮标数据)中的重尾观测噪声,并展示了其优于局部集合变换卡尔曼滤波(LETKF)的性能。

Hamza Ruzayqat, Hristo G. Chipilski, Omar KnioMon, 09 Ma📊 stat

Modeling Animal Communication Using Multivariate Hawkes Processes with Additive Excitation and Multiplicative Inhibition

本文提出了一种结合加法激发与乘法抑制的多元 Hawkes 过程模型,通过贝叶斯推断有效解决了多变量动物声学通信中激发与抑制的识别难题,并成功应用于分析群居猫鼬和两种须鲸的呼叫数据以揭示其复杂的交互模式。

Bokgyeong Kang, Erin M. Schliep, Alan E. Gelfand, Ariana Strandburg-Peshkin, Robert S. SchickMon, 09 Ma📊 stat

Simultaneously accounting for winner's curse and sample structure in Mendelian randomization: bivariate rerandomized inverse variance weighted estimator

该论文提出了一种双变量重随机化逆方差加权(BRIVW)估计量,通过联合建模 SNP-暴露与 SNP-结局的关联分布并校正样本结构,有效解决了孟德尔随机化中同时存在的赢家诅咒和样本结构偏差问题,从而获得更准确且无偏的因果效应估计。

Xin Liu, Ping Yin, Peng WangMon, 09 Ma📊 stat

Clustering-Based Outcome Models for Clinical Studies: A Scoping Review

这篇综述系统概述了将患者协变量聚类与临床结局模型相结合的方法,区分了利用结局信息构建聚类的“知情”模型与仅基于协变量的“无偏”模型,并探讨了其在高维数据、风险分层及亚组治疗效应估计等临床场景中的应用。

Johannes Vilsmeier, Fabian Eibensteiner, Franz König, Francois Mercier, Robin Ristl, Nigel Stallard, Marc Vandemeulebroecke, Sarah Zohar, Martin PoschMon, 09 Ma📊 stat

Optimizing Complex Health Intervention Packages through the Learn-As-you-GO (LAGO) Design

本文介绍了“边学边做”(LAGO)研究设计,该设计通过在试验过程中分阶段动态优化复杂的多组分健康干预方案,旨在以最小成本实现预设的统计功效和效果目标,从而降低传统随机对照试验在复杂公共卫生干预中失败的风险,并通过 BetterBirth 研究及多项 HIV 与非传染性疾病试验案例论证了其应用价值。

Donna Spiegelman (Center on Methods for Implementation,Prevention Science,,Department of Biostatistics, Yale University), Dong Roman Xu (Southern Medical University Institute for Global Health), Ante Bing (Department of Mathematics,Statistics, Boston University), Guangyu Tong (Section of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University), Mona Abdo (Center on Methods for Implementation,Prevention Science,,Department of Biostatistics, Yale University), Jingyu Cui (Center on Methods for Implementation,Prevention Science,,Department of Biostatistics, Yale University), Charles Goss (Center for Biostatistics,Data Science, Washington University School of Medicine), John Baptist Kiggundu (Infectious Diseases Research Collaboration), Chris T. Longenecker (Division of Cardiology,Department of Global Health, University of Washington), LaRon Nelson (Yale School of Nursing, Yale University), Drew Cameron (Department of Health Policy,Management, Yale University), Fred Semitala (Infectious Diseases Research Collaboration,,Department of Medicine, Makerere University,,Makerere University Joint AIDS Program), Xin Zhou (Center on Methods for Implementation,Prevention Science,,Department of Biostatistics, Yale University), Judith J. Lok (Department of Mathematics,Statistics, Boston University)Mon, 09 Ma📊 stat

Variable selection in linear mixed model meta-regression with suspected interaction effects -- How can tree-based methods help?

该研究通过真实数据与模拟实验表明,虽然在线性交互效应下传统线性方法表现更优,但在交互效应偏离线性或样本量增加时,基于稳定选择的随机效应树等树基方法能作为线性模型的有力补充,有效解决元回归中交互效应的变量选择问题。

Jan-Bernd Igelmann, Paula Lorenz, Markus PaulyMon, 09 Ma📊 stat

Estimating Residential Displacement in the Central Puget Sound Region using Household Survey Data

该研究利用三项家庭调查数据,通过贝叶斯时空模型和分层后处理技术,估算了2016至2023年间美国中央普吉特湾地区次县级住宅流离失所率,揭示了区域内部的地理差异及2020-2021年搬迁群体的暂时性缓和趋势,并提供了可推广的方法论与公开数据供利益相关者参考。

Ameer Dharamshi, Mary Richards, Suzanne Childress, Brian Lee, Daniel CaseyMon, 09 Ma📊 stat

Risk Prediction in Cancer Imaging Using Enriched Radiomics Features

该研究提出了一种结合经典结构放射组学与基于肝 MRI 增强模式映射(EPM)的新型功能放射组学特征框架,通过像素级血流灌注信息有效捕捉肿瘤异质性,显著提升了肝癌诊断分类与分级分层的准确性,并展示了其在纵向成像研究中的潜力。

Alec Reinhardt, Tsung-Hung Yao, Raven Hollis, Galia Jacobson, Millicent Roach, Mohamed Badawy, Peter Park, Laura Beretta, David Fuentes, Newsha Nikzad, Prasun Jalal, Eugene Koay, Suprateek KunduMon, 09 Ma📊 stat

Quantifying Aleatoric Uncertainty of the Treatment Effect: A Novel Orthogonal Learner

该论文针对医疗因果推断中常被忽视的治疗效应随机性(即偶然性不确定性)问题,提出了一种名为 AU-learner 的新型正交学习器,通过偏识别方法获得条件治疗效应分布(CDTE)的紧确界,并证明了其满足 Neyman 正交性且具备准 Oracle 效率,同时给出了基于深度学习的参数化实现。

Valentyn Melnychuk, Stefan Feuerriegel, Mihaela van der SchaarFri, 13 Ma📊 stat