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Augmented balancing weights as linear regression
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B: Statistical Methodology, qkaf019, https://doi.org/10.1093/jrsssb/qkaf019
Published: 24 April 2025
.../ ), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract We provide a novel characterization of augmented balancing weights, also known as automatic debiased machine learning. These popular doubly robust estimators...
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A primer on using balancing weights to estimate inverse probability weights
American Journal of Epidemiology, kwaf060, https://doi.org/10.1093/aje/kwaf060
Published: 07 April 2025
..., distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Balancing weights inverse probability weights propensity scores confounding observational research acute kidney injury renin-angiotensin system inhibitors calcium channel blockers ACCEPTED MANUSCRIPT American...
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Forensic comparison analysis of smokeless powders by gel permeation chromatography and likelihood ratio evaluation methods
Forensic Sciences Research, owaf005, https://doi.org/10.1093/fsr/owaf005
Published: 06 February 2025
... (NC) no matter what type of the smokeless powder is. As a kind of polymer, NC may have different molecular weights and polydispersity index (PDI) values, which could help the identification and differentiation of the smokeless powders. In this study, weight-average molecular weights (Mw), number...
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Accommodating informative visit times for analysing irregular longitudinal data: a sensitivity analysis approach with balancing weights estimators
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series C: Applied Statistics, qlaf002, https://doi.org/10.1093/jrsssc/qlaf002
Published: 23 January 2025
... cited. Abstract Irregular longitudinal data with informative visit times arise when patients’ visits are partly driven by concurrent disease outcomes. However, existing methods such as inverse intensity weighting (IIW), often overlook or have not adequately assessed the influence of informative visit...
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Uncovering the relationships among herring-like fossils (Clupei: Teleostei): a phylogenetic analysis Get access
Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, Volume 202, Issue 3, November 2024, zlae115, https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlae115
Published: 09 November 2024
... †Ellimmichthyiformes implied weights inner ear microphagy molecular dating parsimony sardines Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft 10.13039/501100001659 RE 1113/24–1 LMU Mentoring Program Herring-like fishes belong to the subcohort Clupei [sensu Wiley and Johnson (2010) , equivalent to Clupeomorpha...
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Logics for at most countable first-order structures Get access
Journal of Logic and Computation, exae067, https://doi.org/10.1093/logcom/exae067
Published: 15 October 2024
... Hilbert-style axiomatizations and prove their strong completeness with respect to countable Archimedean and non-Archimedean fields, respectively. Through several examples we illustrate a natural representation of various weight functions within the proposed framework and applications to non-monotonic...
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Rate of body weight gain during early gestation in F0 beef heifers has effects that extend multigenerationally to the F2 fetuses Get access
Journal of Animal Science, Volume 102, 2024, skae295, https://doi.org/10.1093/jas/skae295
Published: 26 September 2024
... and distributed under the terms of the Oxford University Press, Standard Journals Publication Model ( https://dbpia.nl.go.kr/pages/standard-publication-reuse-rights ) Abstract Our aim was to investigate the effects of maternal (F0) body weight ( BW ) gain during the first 84 d of gestation on body composition...
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kpop: a kernel balancing approach for reducing specification assumptions in survey weighting
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A: Statistics in Society, qnae082, https://doi.org/10.1093/jrsssa/qnae082
Published: 02 September 2024
... the p ( X , Z , Y , R ) describing the target group, and the user has at best incomplete knowledge as to how these distributions differ. Our goal is to estimate weights such that the weighted mean of Y in the sample is the best possible estimate for the mean of Y...
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Assessments and developments in constructing a National Health Index for policy-making, in the UK
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A: Statistics in Society, Volume 188, Issue 2, April 2025, Pages 491–514, https://doi.org/10.1093/jrsssa/qnae060
Published: 26 July 2024
... and across different geographical areas and evaluate the nation’s health. We reviewed the conceptual coherence and statistical requirements, focusing on three main steps: correlation analysis at different levels, comparison of the implemented weights, and a sensitivity and uncertainty analysis. Based...
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Temporal changes in the risk of six-month post-COVID symptoms: a national population-based cohort study
American Journal of Epidemiology, Volume 194, Issue 1, January 2025, Pages 162–171, https://doi.org/10.1093/aje/kwae174
Published: 03 July 2024
... for interview, 134 391 (36.2%) participated at baseline, and respectively 107 759 (29.0%) and 85 074 (22.9%) at the first and second follow-ups ( Figure 1 ). Weights derived from nonresponse models and calibration on margins from the census were used to take the EpiCov design and nonparticipating bias...
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Simulation testing performance of ensemble models when catch data are underreported
ICES Journal of Marine Science, Volume 81, Issue 6, August 2024, Pages 1053–1072, https://doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsae067
Published: 28 May 2024
... alternative models explain observed data equally well. Through simulation, we explore the importance of identifying candidate models for both assessment and short-term forecasts and the consequences of different ensemble weighting methods on estimated quantities. Ensemble performance exceeded a single best...
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Variable selection when estimating effects in external target populations
American Journal of Epidemiology, Volume 193, Issue 8, August 2024, Pages 1176–1181, https://doi.org/10.1093/aje/kwae048
Published: 15 April 2024
... to transport RDs using outcome modeling or inverse odds weighting. Inclusion of variables that differed in distribution between the populations but were non-EMMs reduced precision, regardless of whether they were associated with the outcome. However, non-EMMs associated with selection did not amplify bias...
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Frequency-weighted and frequency interval Gramian framework-based model reduction using singular value decomposition Get access
IMA Journal of Mathematical Control and Information, Volume 41, Issue 1, March 2024, Pages 57–72, https://doi.org/10.1093/imamci/dnad036
Published: 17 February 2024
... significantly from the high-order model, resulting in a large approximation inaccuracy. Therefore, this paper introduces a novel solution for finite-frequency model reduction using new frequency-weighted Gramians by employing balanced truncation. This work provides a novel structure of fictitious input...
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Robust data integration from multiple external sources for generalized linear models with binary outcomes
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Biometrics, Volume 80, Issue 1, March 2024, ujad005, https://doi.org/10.1093/biomtc/ujad005
Published: 16 February 2024
... as much external information as possible. This new method makes a data-adaptive use of the external information to deal with heterogeneity in study populations so that higher weights are assigned to those external studies whose connection to the internal data distribution is less violated. We adopt...
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Ensemble methods for testing a global null
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B: Statistical Methodology, Volume 86, Issue 2, April 2024, Pages 461–486, https://doi.org/10.1093/jrsssb/qkad131
Published: 30 November 2023
... are conducted to demonstrate the type I error control and/or power gain of the proposed ensemble tests. Bahadur efficiency Cauchy p-value combination methods random weights robust test whole-genome sequencing studies In view of these facts, a natural question is how one can improve the testing...
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Adaptive hybrid control design for comparative clinical trials with historical control data
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series C: Applied Statistics, Volume 73, Issue 2, March 2024, Pages 444–459, https://doi.org/10.1093/jrsssc/qlad103
Published: 17 November 2023
..., it saves on sample size when substantial information can be borrowed from the historical control, and it maintains power when little information can be borrowed from the historical control. balancing weights effective sample size historical control propensity score randomised controlled trial real...
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Improving gelling properties of fish gelatin by γ-polyglutamic acid with four different molecular weights
International Journal of Food Science and Technology, Volume 58, Issue 12, December 2023, Pages 6588–6597, https://doi.org/10.1111/ijfs.16772
Published: 27 October 2023
...–270 Bloom), gelatin extracted from the skin of tilapia, was purchased from Ji Li Ding Marine Biotechnology Co., Ltd (Suzhou, China). γ-PGA (type L, molecular weight: 700, 1000, 2000, 3000 kDa), was purchased from Xi'an Baichuan Biotechnology Co., Ltd (Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, China). All the other...
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Statistical structural inference from edge weights using a mixture of gamma distributions Get access
Journal of Complex Networks, Volume 11, Issue 5, October 2023, cnad038, https://doi.org/10.1093/comnet/cnad038
Published: 13 October 2023
...Jianjia Wang; Edwin R Hancock One simple method for converting the edge weights into conventional binary connections is by thresholding with a fixed global value [ 11 ]. This weight-based method identifies those edges that exceed a certain constant edge weight value. The networks generated...
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Measuring Social Inclusion in Europe: a non-additive approach with the expert-preferences of public policy planners
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A: Statistics in Society, Volume 187, Issue 1, January 2024, Pages 231–259, https://doi.org/10.1093/jrsssa/qnad106
Published: 05 September 2023
... or substitutability for each combination of sub-components. Second, creating a multidimensional index requires to estimate the parameters of the aggregation function (e.g. the weights). Such estimation can follow normative methods, e.g. eliciting decision-makers’ preferences, or positive methods...
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Estimating the causal effects of multiple intermittent treatments with application to COVID-19
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series C: Applied Statistics, Volume 72, Issue 5, November 2023, Pages 1162–1186, https://doi.org/10.1093/jrsssc/qlad076
Published: 24 August 2023
...:https://dbpia.nl.go.kr/pages/standard-publication-reuse-rights ) Abstract To draw real-world evidence about the comparative effectiveness of multiple time-varying treatments on patient survival, we develop a joint marginal structural survival model and a novel weighting strategy to account for time-varying confounding...
