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Multiply robust estimation of causal effects using linked data

IF 1.5 3区数学

Computational Statistics & Data Analysis Pub Date : 2025-04-02 DOI: 10.1016/j.csda.2025.108175

Shanshan Luo , Yechi Zhang , Wei Li , Zhi Geng

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Eliciting prior information from clinical trials via calibrated Bayes factor

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Computational Statistics & Data Analysis Pub Date : 2025-03-31 DOI: 10.1016/j.csda.2025.108180

Roberto Macrì Demartino , Leonardo Egidi , Nicola Torelli , Ioannis Ntzoufras

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Discretization: Privacy-preserving data publishing for causal discovery

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Computational Statistics & Data Analysis Pub Date : 2025-03-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.csda.2025.108174

Youngmin Ahn , Woongjoon Park , Gunwoong Park

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Efficient regularized estimation of graphical proportional hazards model with interval-censored data

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Computational Statistics & Data Analysis Pub Date : 2025-03-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.csda.2025.108178

Huimin Lu , Yilong Wang , Heming Bing , Shuying Wang , Niya Li

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Linear covariance selection model via ℓ1-penalization

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Computational Statistics & Data Analysis Pub Date : 2025-03-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.csda.2025.108176

Kwan-Young Bak , Seongoh Park

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A deflation-adjusted Bayesian information criterion for selecting the number of clusters in K-means clustering

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Computational Statistics & Data Analysis Pub Date : 2025-03-26 DOI: 10.1016/j.csda.2025.108170

Masao Ueki

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A multiple imputation approach for flexible modelling of interval-censored data with missing and censored covariates

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Computational Statistics & Data Analysis Pub Date : 2025-03-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.csda.2025.108177

Yichen Lou , Yuqing Ma , Liming Xiang , Jianguo Sun

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Sparse factor analysis for categorical data with the group-sparse generalized singular value decomposition

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Computational Statistics & Data Analysis Pub Date : 2025-03-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.csda.2025.108179

Ju-Chi Yu , Julie Le Borgne , Anjali Krishnan , Arnaud Gloaguen , Cheng-Ta Yang , Laura A. Rabin , Hervé Abdi , Vincent Guillemot

{"title":"Sparse factor analysis for categorical data with the group-sparse generalized singular value decomposition","authors":"Ju-Chi Yu , Julie Le Borgne , Anjali Krishnan , Arnaud Gloaguen , Cheng-Ta Yang , Laura A. Rabin , Hervé Abdi , Vincent Guillemot","doi":"10.1016/j.csda.2025.108179","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.csda.2025.108179","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Correspondence analysis, multiple correspondence analysis, and their discriminant counterparts (i.e., discriminant simple correspondence analysis and discriminant multiple correspondence analysis) are methods of choice for analyzing multivariate categorical data. In these methods, variables are integrated into optimal components computed as linear combinations whose weights are obtained from a generalized singular value decomposition (GSVD) that integrates specific metric constraints on the rows and columns of the original data matrix. The weights of the linear combinations are, in turn, used to interpret the components, and this interpretation is facilitated when components are 1) pairwise orthogonal and 2) when the values of the weights are either large or small but not intermediate—a configuration called a simple or a sparse structure. To obtain such simple configurations, the optimization problem solved by the GSVD is extended to include new constraints that implement component orthogonality and sparse weights. Because multiple correspondence analysis represents qualitative variables by a set of binary columns in the data matrix, an additional group constraint is added to the optimization problem in order to sparsify the whole set of columns representing one qualitative variable. This method—called group-sparse GSVD (gsGSVD)—integrates these constraints in a new algorithm via an iterative projection scheme onto the intersection of subspaces where each subspace implements a specific constraint. This algorithm is described in details, and we show how it can be adapted to the sparsification of simple and multiple correspondence analysis (as well as their barycentric discriminant analysis versions). This algorithm is illustrated with the analysis of four different data sets—each illustrating the sparsification of a particular CA-based method.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55225,"journal":{"name":"Computational Statistics & Data Analysis","volume":"209 ","pages":"Article 108179"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2025-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143769158","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Selecting time-series hyperparameters with the artificial jackknife

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Computational Statistics & Data Analysis Pub Date : 2025-03-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.csda.2025.108173

Filippo Pellegrino

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Hidden semi-Markov models with inhomogeneous state dwell-time distributions

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Computational Statistics & Data Analysis Pub Date : 2025-03-14 DOI: 10.1016/j.csda.2025.108171

Jan-Ole Koslik

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