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Paper develops compact formulations for optimization problems with rank-one convex functions and indicator variables.

problem Optimization problems involving rank-one convex functions with support constraints.
method Perspective reformulation techniques to exploit conic structure and establish convex hull results.
result Systematic perspective formulations for convex hull descriptions of sets with nonlinear separable or non-separable objective functions and combinatorial constraints.

Novel Orlicz regrets consistently bound environmental variable statistics.

problem Consistent evaluation of stochastic environmental variables like water quality indices.
method Proposed novel Orlicz regrets for upper and lower bounds.
result Explicit linkage between Orlicz regrets and divergence risk measures.

Global sensitivity analysis with variance-based measures suffers from several theoretical and practical limitations, since they focus only on the variance of the output and handle multivariate variables in a limited way. In this paper, we introduce a new class of sensitivity indices based on dependence measures which o…

2013-11-11abs ↗pdf ↗

New dispersion indices based on inaccuracy and divergence introduced for information measures.

problem Measuring variability in uncertainty measures.
method Introducing new dispersion indices based on Kerridge inaccuracy and Kullback-Leibler divergence.
result Properties, bounds, and examples of new dispersion indices presented.

Novel framework for contextual anomaly detection models uncertainty.

problem Identifying anomalies in target variables influenced by contextual variables.
method Normalcy score (NS) framework using heteroscedastic Gaussian process regression.
result NS outperforms state-of-the-art methods in detection accuracy and interpretability.

New method combines domain changes and sparse mixing for better latent variable learning.

problem Challenges in identifying latent variables due to insufficient domain changes and violated sparsity constraints.
method Combines sufficient changes and sparse mixing constraints, using domain encoding networks and variational autoencoders.
result Identifiability of latent variables achieved with less restrictive constraints.

This paper introduces and develops a novel variable importance score function in the context of ensemble learning and demonstrates its appeal both theoretically and empirically. Our proposed score function is simple and more straightforward than its counterpart proposed in the context of random forest, and by avoiding …

2015-01-25abs ↗pdf ↗

Method identifies causal interactions between time series using extreme eigenvalue variability.

problem Detecting causal interactions between time series.
method Largest eigenvalue of lagged correlation matrices, measuring causal interactions through variability.
result The method outperforms traditional Granger causality tests in detecting structural changes.

This paper simplifies conditional Sobol' indices calculation using PCE bases.

problem Computational inefficiency and lack of consistency in evaluating conditional Sobol' indices.
method Analytical extraction of conditional Sobol' indices via basis decomposition of PCE expansions.
result Derives closed-form expressions for conditional Sobol' indices.

We statistically investigate the distribution of share price and the distributions of three common financial indicators using data from approximately 8,000 companies publicly listed worldwide for the period 2004-2013. We find that the distribution of share price follows Zipf's law; that is, it can be approximated by a …

2017-02-01abs ↗pdf ↗

This study shows how trade policy uncertainty affects stock-T bill correlations.

problem The impact of trade policy uncertainty on stock-T bill relationships.
method Extended Dynamic Conditional Correlation (DCC) framework incorporating exogenous variables.
result Trade policy uncertainty significantly alters stock-T bill correlations, especially under specific political conditions.

This paper explores emerging methods for estimating variable importance in machine learning.

problem Estimating the importance of variables in machine learning models.
method Least Absolute Shrinkage and Selection Operator (LASSO), Support Vector Machine (SVM), Predictive Error Function (PERF), Random Forest (RF), Extreme Gradient Boosting (XGBOOST).
result PERF and RF showed the best performance in highly correlated data, while PERF and XGBOOST performed poorly on small data sizes.

Model-based clustering is a popular approach for clustering multivariate data which has seen applications in numerous fields. Nowadays, high-dimensional data are more and more common and the model-based clustering approach has adapted to deal with the increasing dimensionality. In particular, the development of variabl…

2017-07-02abs ↗pdf ↗

We consider the problem of robust compressed sensing whose objective is to recover a high-dimensional sparse signal from compressed measurements corrupted by outliers. A new sparse Bayesian learning method is developed for robust compressed sensing. The basic idea of the proposed method is to identify and remove the ou…

2016-10-10abs ↗pdf ↗

New estimator for survival function with missing not at random censoring indicators.

problem Estimating survival function with missing not at random censoring indicators.
method Proposes a new estimator based on a conditional copula model for the missingness mechanism.
result Provides a new method for estimating conditional survival function with MNAR censoring indicators.

Understanding the causes of crime is a longstanding issue in researcher's agenda. While it is a hard task to extract causality from data, several linear models have been proposed to predict crime through the existing correlations between crime and urban metrics. However, because of non-Gaussian distributions and multic…

2017-12-08abs ↗pdf ↗

This survey gives an introduction to monetary measures of risk as monotone and cash additive functions on spaces of univariate random variables. Primal and dual representation results as well as several examples are discussed. Principal ways to construct risk measures are given and extensions to more general situations…

2018-12-11abs ↗pdf ↗

We show how random matrix theory can be applied to develop new algorithms to extract dynamic factors from macroeconomic time series. In particular, we consider a limit where the number of random variables N and the number of consecutive time measurements T are large but the ratio N / T is fixed. In this regime the unde…

2012-01-31abs ↗pdf ↗

Machine learning predicts seasonal precipitation for East Africa.

problem Predicting seasonal precipitation for East Africa using machine learning.
method Dimension reduction via EOFs, large-scale climate variability indices as features, interpretable ML algorithm.
result The ML approach shows significant positive skill in predicting precipitation for OND season, comparable to ECMWF forecasts.

Paper introduces efficient methods for estimating cross-partial derivatives and sensitivity indices.

problem Efficiently estimating cross-partial derivatives and sensitivity indices in complex models.
method Using randomized points and constraints, the paper develops estimators with optimal convergence rates and low bias.
result The estimators achieve optimal rates of convergence and do not suffer from the curse of dimensionality.

Variable selection for optimal treatment regime in a clinical trial or an observational study is getting more attention. Most existing variable selection techniques focused on selecting variables that are important for prediction, therefore some variables that are poor in prediction but are critical for decision-making…

2014-05-20abs ↗pdf ↗

Post-estimation smoothing improves prediction accuracy with structural indices.

problem Using natural structural indices in machine learning without losing robustness.
method A post-estimation smoothing operator that separates from the original predictor.
result Post-estimation smoothing improves accuracy over original predictors under simple conditions.

Safe screening rules reduce 0\ell_0-regression computation by fixing 76% of variables.

problem Efficiently solving 0\ell_0-regression problems with large datasets.
method Convex relaxation and safe screening rules to eliminate variables.
result 76% of variables can be fixed to their optimal values, reducing computational burden.

In data science and machine learning, hierarchical parametric models, such as mixture models, are often used. They contain two kinds of variables: observable variables, which represent the parts of the data that can be directly measured, and latent variables, which represent the underlying processes that generate the d…

2014-08-25abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper finds significant impact of stock market swings on equity risk premium predictability.

problem Predicting equity risk premium based on stock market behavior changes.
method Introduced Bullish Index and used FDMAA for returns analysis; considered 28 indicators.
result Positive shocks in Bullish Index correlate with strong equity risk premium predictability for up to six months, while negative shocks correlate for up to nine months.

The paper uses deep neural networks to estimate and infer ATE without needing to know the dimension of the data.

problem Estimating and inferring the average treatment effect (ATE) in complex data settings.
method The paper uses deep neural networks to estimate the mean regression function and then calculates the ATE. It establishes consistency and asymptotic normality of the estimators.
result The deep neural network estimates of ATE are consistent and asymptotically normal, providing dimension-free rates.