{"title":"Recovering house price trajectories from sparse transaction data using functional principal component analysis.","authors":"Xiaolei Wang, Naiming Xie, Jiguo Cao","doi":"10.1080/02664763.2025.2611298","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02664763.2025.2611298","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In the real estate market, property prices are recorded only at the time of sale, leading to highly sparse transaction data. Recovering house price trajectories from such sparse data is therefore essential for accurate property valuation. This study models the latent price trajectory as functional data and applies functional principal component analysis (FPCA) to recover the underlying price trajectory. Real estate transaction data from the Kitsilano neighborhood in Vancouver is collected to validate the FPCA model. The first three eigenfunctions are employed to reconstruct the price trajectories, along with their corresponding confidence intervals. A 10-fold cross-validation procedure is conducted to assess the accuracy of the recovered trajectories. The results demonstrate that FPCA can reconstruct house price trajectories with high precision.</p>","PeriodicalId":15239,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Statistics","volume":"53 13","pages":"2687-2700"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2026-01-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13637791/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149110166","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Djidenou Montcho, Daiane A Zuanetti, Thierry Chekouo, Luis A Milan
{"title":"Efficient Bayesian variable selection with reversible jump MCMC in imaging genetics: an application to schizophrenia.","authors":"Djidenou Montcho, Daiane A Zuanetti, Thierry Chekouo, Luis A Milan","doi":"10.1080/02664763.2025.2606972","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02664763.2025.2606972","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>From a practical perspective, proposals are one of the main bottleneck for any Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithm. This paper suggests a novel data driven proposal for reversible jump MCMC for Bayesian variable selection in the context of predictive risk assessment for schizophrenia based on imaging genetic data. Given functional Magnetic Resonance Image and Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms information of healthy and people diagnosed with schizophrenia, we use a Bayesian probit model to select discriminating variables for inferential purposes, while to estimate the predictive risk, the most promising models are combined using a Bayesian model averaging scheme.</p>","PeriodicalId":15239,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Statistics","volume":"53 13","pages":"2653-2668"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13637776/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149110096","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Modeling extreme events in the presence of inliers: a mixture approach.","authors":"Shivshankar Nila, Ishapathik Das, N Balakrishna","doi":"10.1080/02664763.2025.2606244","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02664763.2025.2606244","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In many real-life situations, such as life testing experiments and environmental studies, including rainfall, snowfall, streamflow, and soil moisture, responses contain an excess of zero observations, which are known as inliers at zero. Standard modeling approaches fail to provide expected results if these inliers are not considered in the model. Similar challenges arise in extreme value analysis, where accurate tail estimation depends on the appropriate threshold selection. Inliers can adversely affect both threshold estimation and tail behavior modeling if not properly considered. Although some extreme value mixture models address threshold and tail estimation, they often ignore inliers or don't account thoroughly, leading to suboptimal results. There is no unified framework for defining extreme value mixture models; the misspecification of the bulk model can affect the threshold, tail estimates, and particularly the tail proportion. This paper introduces a framework for modeling extreme events, addressing threshold uncertainty, and capturing inliers at zero. The model parameters are estimated using maximum likelihood estimation, ensuring precision. We compare the proposed model with classical mean excess and parameter stability plot estimates. Theoretical results are established, and the model's utility is shown through real applications. Simulation studies and real data examples demonstrate that the proposed model significantly outperforms traditional methods, which typically neglect inliers.</p>","PeriodicalId":15239,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Statistics","volume":"53 13","pages":"2520-2552"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-12-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13637771/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149110091","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ying Wu, Hanzhong Liu, Kai Ren, Shujie Ma, Xiangyu Chang
{"title":"A new causal rule learning approach to interpretable estimation of heterogeneous treatment effect.","authors":"Ying Wu, Hanzhong Liu, Kai Ren, Shujie Ma, Xiangyu Chang","doi":"10.1080/02664763.2025.2606968","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02664763.2025.2606968","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Interpretability plays a crucial role in the application of statistical learning to estimate heterogeneous treatment effects (HTE) in complex diseases. In this study, we leverage a rule-based workflow, namely causal rule learning (CRL), to estimate and improve our understanding of HTE for atrial septal defect, addressing an overlooked question in the previous literature: what if an individual simultaneously belongs to multiple groups with different average treatment effects? The CRL process consists of three steps: rule discovery, which generates a set of causal rules with corresponding subgroup average treatment effects; rule selection, which identifies a subset of these rules to deconstruct individual-level treatment effects as a linear combination of subgroup-level effects; and rule analysis, which presents a detailed procedure for further analyzing each selected rule from multiple perspectives to identify the most promising rules for validation. Extensive simulation studies and real-world data analysis demonstrate that CRL outperforms other methods in providing interpretable estimates of HTE, especially when dealing with complex ground truth and sufficient sample sizes.</p>","PeriodicalId":15239,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Statistics","volume":"53 13","pages":"2602-2631"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-12-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13637777/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149110083","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Power comparisons for testing goodness of fit for constrained models on high-dimensional cross-classified tables.","authors":"Mark Reiser, Lulu Wang, Hazar A Khogeer","doi":"10.1080/02664763.2025.2606978","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02664763.2025.2606978","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In applications of models for cross-classified categorical variables, goodness of fit (GOF) is commonly assessed by either Pearson's <math><msup><mi>X</mi> <mn>2</mn></msup> </math> statistic or the likelihood ratio statistic with reference to an asymptotic chi-square approximation. However, if the number of cross-classified variables is large, difficulties are encountered in obtaining a valid test using the traditional statistics due to <i>sparseness</i> and <i>dilution</i> of power. Because of these difficulties, several asymptotic chi-square GOF statistics that <i>focus</i> on lower-order marginal distributions have been proposed. Another method that generally does not encounter the difficulties caused by sparseness and dilution is the likelihood ratio difference test of a nested model. In this paper, Monte Carlo simulations are used to compare the power of a test of fit on lower-order marginals to the power of a test using the likelihood ratio difference statistic for detecting lack of fit in a constrained latent variable model. Results show that the likelihood ratio difference test has substantially higher power. We recommend using a statistic based on lower-order marginals to test the unconstrained model before applying the likelihood ratio difference test. Then, if the general model has an adequate fit, we recommend testing the constrained model using a likelihood ratio difference statistic.</p>","PeriodicalId":15239,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Statistics","volume":"53 13","pages":"2669-2686"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-12-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13637780/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149110141","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Nested functional ANOVA with pointwise and global inference: theory and application to COVID-Era financial data.","authors":"N Celik","doi":"10.1080/02664763.2025.2606963","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02664763.2025.2606963","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We propose a nested functional analysis of variance (FANOVA) model to investigate hierarchical variation structures in functional data. The model extends classical ANOVA by incorporating both main effects and nested subgroup effects, allowing for the decomposition of functional variation across multiple levels. Model parameters are estimated using matrix-based representations under functional linear model assumptions. For hypothesis testing, we develop pointwise <i>F</i>-type statistics and global tests based on the <math><msup><mi>L</mi> <mn>2</mn></msup> </math> norm of the effect functions, with null distributions approximated via Welch-Satterthwaite techniques. Through extensive simulation studies, we assess the accuracy of parameter estimation, control of Type I error, and power under various noise levels, sample sizes, and contamination scenarios. The methodology is further illustrated through an application to stock market index data from 24 countries during the COVID-19 pandemic, where we analyze regional and nested economic effects. The results demonstrate that the proposed nested FANOVA framework effectively captures structured functional variation and remains robust under a range of realistic data conditions.</p>","PeriodicalId":15239,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Statistics","volume":"53 13","pages":"2574-2589"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13637769/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149110086","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On multicomponent stress-strength reliability under competing risk.","authors":"Çağatay Çetinkaya, İsmet Birbiçer, Farha Sultana","doi":"10.1080/02664763.2025.2606971","DOIUrl":"10.1080/02664763.2025.2606971","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>An s-out-of-k type of multi-component system is handled in the case of strength components exposed to common random stress. In this reliability scheme, random stress has been considered in the competing risk setup. Each stress and strength component is assumed to follow the general scale family of distributions. Classical inferences are obtained using the maximum likelihood method with the corresponding approximate confidence intervals. Bootstrap confidence intervals are also provided using the logit transformation method as an alternative to the asymptotic confidence intervals. Further, Bayesian inferences and their corresponding highest posterior density credible intervals with the conjugate priors are obtained using Lindley's approximation method and Monte Carlo Markov chains. In Bayesian process, different loss functions are considered as symmetric and asymmetric. The theoretical outcomes' performance is evaluated with simulated data sets and real-data examples.</p>","PeriodicalId":15239,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Statistics","volume":"53 13","pages":"2632-2652"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13637790/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149110135","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Statistical power analysis of data with zero-inflation under hurdle regression models.","authors":"Mehboob Hussain, Sajid Ali, Ismail Shah","doi":"10.1080/02664763.2025.2606245","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02664763.2025.2606245","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Zero-inflated count data frequently arise in health research, where accurate statistical modeling is essential for a valid inference. This study, motivated by alcohol misuse prevention trials, aims to evaluate and compare the statistical properties of various count data models. Extensive simulations are conducted to compare the statistical power and type I error rates under varying data generation conditions, including different zero-inflation levels, intervention effect, and sample sizes to mimic the real trials. It is noticed that the Poisson and negative binomial models have inflated type I errors and decreased statistical power than the zero-inflated models. Among zero-inflated models, hurdle models perform better while the marginalized zero-inflated Poisson has the highest power when intervention effects are kept similar.</p>","PeriodicalId":15239,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Statistics","volume":"53 13","pages":"2553-2573"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13637762/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149110163","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A novel variable selection method in nonlinear multivariate models using B-splines with an application to geoscience.","authors":"Mary E Savino, Céline Lévy-Leduc","doi":"10.1080/02664763.2025.2599838","DOIUrl":"10.1080/02664763.2025.2599838","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In this article, we introduce a novel data-driven variable selection approach in a multivariate nonparametric regression model designed to capture only the variables on which the regression function depends. The core concept of our method consists in approximating the underlying function by a linear combination of B-splines of order <i>M</i> and their pairwise interactions. The coefficients of this linear combination are estimated by minimizing the standard least-squares criterion penalized by the sum of the <math><msub><mi>ℓ</mi> <mn>2</mn></msub> </math> -norms of the partial derivatives with respect to the different variables on which the function depends. We validate our approach through numerical experiments varying the number of observations, the noise level and the total number of variables and compare it to four other state-of-the-art methods. An application to a geochemical system based on calcite precipitation is also considered. In most of these contexts, our approach outperforms the other procedures. Our completely data-driven method is implemented in the absorber R package which is available on the Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN).</p>","PeriodicalId":15239,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Statistics","volume":"53 12","pages":"2441-2467"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-12-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13552338/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148912220","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A composite likelihood approach to gaussian network differentiation with application to epigenetics.","authors":"James O Adefisoye, S Hasan Arshad, Hongmei Zhang","doi":"10.1080/02664763.2025.2596185","DOIUrl":"10.1080/02664763.2025.2596185","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>For networks originated from dependent populations, methods to test network differentiation between the two populations are generally designed incorporating the nature of dependence. Doing so potentially complicates the inferencing process with heavy computing burden. Through simulations, we assess the value of using composite likelihood to carry out network comparisons under different statuses of population dependency. We apply the method to real-life epigenetic data and assess epigenetic network stability over time.</p>","PeriodicalId":15239,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Statistics","volume":"53 12","pages":"2422-2440"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-12-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13552318/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148912269","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}