Accurate prediction of suicide risk in mental health patients remains an open problem. Existing methods including clinician judgments have acceptable sensitivity, but yield many false positives. Exploiting administrative data has a great potential, but the data has high dimensionality and redundancies in the recording …
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Equity-Directed Bootstrapping improves model performance across groups in imbalanced datasets.
problem Improving model performance across different groups in imbalanced datasets.
method Equity-Directed Bootstrapping to balance training data with respect to both labels and group identity.
result The equity-directed bootstrap brings test set sensitivities and specificities closer to satisfying the equal odds criterion.
The past decade has seen an explosion in the amount of digital information stored in electronic health records (EHR). While primarily designed for archiving patient clinical information and administrative healthcare tasks, many researchers have found secondary use of these records for various clinical informatics tasks…
Deep learning improves CVD risk prediction from health records.
problem Predicting cardiovascular disease risk from administrative health data.
method Combined survival analysis and deep learning models.
result Deep learning models outperform traditional Cox models in accuracy and explained time-to-event occurrence.
Germany's tax admin costs likely exceed 20% of total revenue, requiring system improvement.
problem High tax administrative costs in Germany and other jurisdictions.
method Statistical data, surveys, and a novel approach to measure total administrative cost as a percentage of total tax revenue.
result Germany's 2021 tax administrative costs likely exceeded 20% of total tax revenue.
Learning the Joint Representation of Heterogeneous Temporal Events for Clinical Endpoint Predictioncs.AI
The availability of a large amount of electronic health records (EHR) provides huge opportunities to improve health care service by mining these data. One important application is clinical endpoint prediction, which aims to predict whether a disease, a symptom or an abnormal lab test will happen in the future according…
Research funding agencies routinely use a proportion of their total revenues to support internal administration and marketing costs. The ratio of administration to total costs, referred to as the administration ratio, is highly variable and within any single fund depends on many factors including the number and average…
Compensation-based risk-sharingq-fin.RM
The paper analyzes fairness of compensation-based risk-sharing schemes for fund payouts.
problem Fair allocation of payouts in an endowment contingency fund.
method Analyzes two types of administrators and general non-negative loss distributions.
result General conditions for actuarial fairness are provided.
New model maps malaria prevalence across Kenya's changing administrative boundaries.
problem Mapping disease prevalence with changing administrative boundaries.
method Combines deep learning and MCMC with aggVAE for disease mapping.
result Solves the change-of-support problem in disease surveillance.
The paper learns personalized treatment rules from observational data.
problem Developing effective treatment policies for individual patients.
method Contextual bandit approach to minimize expected risk of treatment policies.
result The proposed method outperforms physicians and baseline approaches in IV and VP administration.
This paper addresses issues with the Brier score in administrative censoring scenarios.
problem Problems with the Brier score in administrative censoring scenarios.
method Proposes an alternative Brier score for administratively censored data.
result The administrative Brier score is valid even when censoring times can be identified from covariates.
Machine Learning for Public Administration Research, with Application to Organizational Reputationcs.CY
Machine learning methods have gained a great deal of popularity in recent years among public administration scholars and practitioners. These techniques open the door to the analysis of text, image and other types of data that allow us to test foundational theories of public administration and to develop new theories. …
Study improves risk evaluation timing with right-censored reporting delays.
problem Improving risk evaluation under short observation windows due to administrative censoring.
method Jointly models parametric hazards for event and reporting processes, uses Monte Carlo expectation-maximization algorithm, and proposes transfer-learning procedure.
result Improves accuracy of timely risk evaluation under administrative censoring.
Study on tax administration issues and their impact on Georgia's budget revenues.
problem Problems in revenue administration and tax rates in Georgia.
method Analyzed foreign experience and proposed a progressive tax system.
result A progressive tax system would benefit Georgia's business and economy.
Mathematical models help keep vaccine prices low.
problem Pricing COVID-19 vaccines to ensure affordability and profitability.
method Optimization and game theory approaches modeling a duopoly market.
result Government can negotiate low prices while manufacturers earn profits.
Title Redactedcs.CY
New method simplifies data analysis.
problem Complex data analysis challenges.
method Innovative algorithm for data simplification.
result Significant reduction in analysis time.
This article was withdrawn by the arXiv.org administrators since it plagiarizes math.AT/0401211.
This article was withdrawn by the arXiv.org administrators since it plagiarizes math.GT/0011056.
New DP mechanism SWAG-PPM improves privacy in deep learning models.
problem Differential privacy struggles with real-world distributions, especially imbalanced data.
method SWAG-PPM uses a pseudo posterior distribution to downweight high-risk records.
result SWAG-PPM outperforms DP-SGD with similar privacy budget and modest utility degradation.
This paper has been withdrawn by arXiv administrators because of disputed claims of authorship among former collaborators
Policy shifts between Trump and Biden impact ESG investments, creating volatility.
problem Dramatic policy shifts between Trump and Biden administrations affect ESG investments.
method Analyzes contrasting policies of Trump and Biden administrations and their impacts on ESG investments.
result Policy changes significantly influence ESG investments, leading to volatility and portfolio reassessment.
This version withdrawn by arXiv administrators because the submitter did not have the right to agree to our license at the time of submission.
The occurrence of drug-drug-interactions (DDI) from multiple drug dispensations is a serious problem, both for individuals and health-care systems, since patients with complications due to DDI are likely to reenter the system at a costlier level. We present a large-scale longitudinal study (18 months) of the DDI phenom…
From medical charts to national census, healthcare has traditionally operated under a paper-based paradigm. However, the past decade has marked a long and arduous transformation bringing healthcare into the digital age. Ranging from electronic health records, to digitized imaging and laboratory reports, to public healt…
Big spatio-temporal datasets, available through both open and administrative data sources, offer significant potential for social science research. The magnitude of the data allows for increased resolution and analysis at individual level. While there are recent advances in forecasting techniques for highly granular te…
We demonstrate by mathematical analysis and systematic computer simulations that redistribution can lead to sustainable growth in a society. The human capital dynamics of each agent is described by a stochastic multiplicative process which, in the long run, leads to the destruction of individual human capital and the e…
Study shows Lula's Zero Hunger program reduced income inequality in Brazil.
problem Income inequality in Brazil during Lula's administration.
method Breakpoint regression analysis using detailed descriptive statistics.
result The Zero Hunger program substantially reduced income inequality and provided income security for the poor.
We present the Network-based Biased Tree Ensembles (NetBiTE) method for drug sensitivity prediction and drug sensitivity biomarker identification in cancer using a combination of prior knowledge and gene expression data. Our devised method consists of a biased tree ensemble that is built according to a probabilistic bi…
PHASE predicts surgical complications from physiological signals.
problem Predicting adverse surgical outcomes from physiological signals.
method Self-supervised transfer learning for physiological signals.
result PHASE outperforms other approaches in predicting five surgical complications.
Framework for fast CAT calibration and administration using AutoML and IRT.
problem Calibrating and administering large-scale CAT tests with limited data.
method AutoIRT (AutoML + IRT) for calibration, BanditCAT for administration.
result Framework successfully launched new item types on DET practice test.
Study uses data to analyze COPD patients' impact on hospital systems.
problem Understanding and quantifying resource requirements for COPD patients.
method Combines segmentation, queuing theory, and data recovery techniques.
result Finding useful operational results from incomplete administrative data.
Most of the existing solutions to enterprise threat management are preventive approaches prescribing means to prevent policy violations with varying degrees of success. In this paper we consider the complementary scenario where a number of security violations have already occurred, or security threats, or vulnerabiliti…
LMM predicts healthcare costs and risks with improved accuracy.
problem Wasteful healthcare spending and inefficiencies in risk prediction.
method Generative pre-trained transformer trained on patient event sequences.
result Improves cost prediction by 14.1% and chronic conditions prediction by 1.9%.
Paper proposes a method to estimate confidence bands for survival random forests.
problem No statistically valid and computationally feasible approach for estimating confidence bands for survival random forests.
method Extending recent developments in infinite-order incomplete U-statistics, the paper proposes an unbiased confidence band estimation.
result The proposed method accurately estimates the confidence band and achieves desired coverage rate.
This study is motivated by the magnitude of the problem of Louisiana high school dropout and its negative impacts on individual and public well-being. Our goal is to predict students who are at risk of high school dropout, by examining Louisiana administrative dataset. Due to the imbalanced nature of the dataset, imbal…
Performative Learning Theorystat.ML
Study how predictions affect the data they're based on, improving generalization guarantees.
problem How well do models generalize when predictions influence the data they're trained on?
method Embed performative predictions into statistical learning theory and prove generalization bounds.
result There's a fundamental trade-off between affecting data and learning from it.
Modeling disease progression in longitudinal EHR data using continuous-time hidden Markov modelscs.LG
Modeling disease progression in healthcare administrative databases is complicated by the fact that patients are observed only at irregular intervals when they seek healthcare services. In a longitudinal cohort of 76,888 patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), we used a continuous-time hidden Markov…
Genealogy research is the study of family history using available resources such as historical records. Ancestry provides its customers with one of the world's largest online genealogical index with billions of records from a wide range of sources, including vital records such as birth and death certificates, census re…
We study the statistics of record-breaking events in daily stock prices of 366 stocks from the Standard and Poors 500 stock index. Both the record events in the daily stock prices themselves and the records in the daily returns are discussed. In both cases we try to describe the record statistics of the stock data with…
Method fuses low and high-resolution data for better health estimates.
problem Improving high-resolution health estimates from mixed data sources.
method Fusion of unbiased low-resolution and potentially biased high-resolution data, learning a distribution consistent with sampling bias.
result Significant reduction in bias in high-resolution estimates.
Record linkage involves merging records in large, noisy databases to remove duplicate entities. It has become an important area because of its widespread occurrence in bibliometrics, public health, official statistics production, political science, and beyond. Traditional linkage methods directly linking records to one…
A new measure PC allows fair comparison of AIWP and NWP models.
problem Fair comparison of AIWP and NWP model outputs.
method Postprocessing deterministic model outputs with isotonic distributional regression (IDR) and calculating PC as mean CRPS of postprocessed forecasts.
result The GraphCast model outperforms the ECMWF HRES model in WeatherBench 2 data.
Record statistics of a strongly correlated time series: random walks and Lévy flightscond-mat.stat-mech
We review recent advances on the record statistics of strongly correlated time series, whose entries denote the positions of a random walk or a Lévy flight on a line. After a brief survey of the theory of records for independent and identically distributed random variables, we focus on random walks. During the last few…
The study of record statistics of correlated series is gaining momentum. In this work, we study the records statistics of the time series of select stock market data and the geometric random walk, primarily through simulations. We show that the distribution of the age of records is a power law with the exponent lyi…
Interpretable neural networks improve economic research by balancing accuracy and transparency.
problem Lack of interpretability in neural networks hinders their use in economic research.
method Proposes interpretable neural network models that balance prediction accuracy and interpretability.
result Achieved 94.5% accuracy in predicting employment status using high-dimensional data.
The study examines how alternative resource adequacy contract designs affect market participants' risk profiles and resource mix.
problem The tension between promoting reliability and competition in liberalized electricity markets.
method Constructs a stochastic equilibrium model of a competitive market with incomplete risk trading and computes investment equilibria under different contracting regimes.
result Alternative contracting regimes can induce different risk profiles and resource mixes, affecting market outcomes.
New approach protects privacy of deleted records in machine learning.
problem Privacy of deleted records in machine learning models.
method Sound deletion guarantee and noisy gradient descent algorithm.
result Privacy of existing records is necessary for deleted records' privacy.
We present a probabilistic method for linking multiple datafiles. This task is not trivial in the absence of unique identifiers for the individuals recorded. This is a common scenario when linking census data to coverage measurement surveys for census coverage evaluation, and in general when multiple record-systems nee…