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48 results for survey methods

Study shows non-systematic bias in customer satisfaction surveys limits data value.

problem Non-systematic bias in customer satisfaction surveys limits data value.
method Used real customer satisfaction survey data of a large retail bank to show the irreducible error and suggest thoughtful survey design methods.
result A thoughtful survey design can reduce non-systematic error in customer satisfaction surveys.

Survey of methods for solving smooth stochastic variational inequalities.

problem Solving smooth (strongly) monotone stochastic variational inequalities.
method Deterministic foundation, general stochastic formulation, finite sum setup, recent advances.
result Review of various methods for solving smooth stochastic variational inequalities.

Surveying machine learning methods for economic forecasting.

problem Improving accuracy of economic forecasts using machine learning.
method Nowcasting, textual data, panel and tensor data, high-dimensional Granger causality tests, time series cross-validation, classification with economic losses.
result Recent advances in machine learning methods enhance economic forecasting accuracy.

Method completes mixed matrix from complex surveys with heterogeneous missingness.

problem Recovering a mixed dataframe matrix from complex survey sampling with different missingness patterns.
method Two-stage procedure: logistic regression for missingness modeling, and weighted log-likelihood maximization with low-rank constraint.
result The proposed method achieves sublinear convergence and shows superior performance compared to existing methods.

New ensemble models classify mouse movement trajectories to assess survey question difficulty.

problem Assessing survey question difficulty based on respondents' interaction data.
method Ensemble models combining semi-metric-based weak learners to classify multivariate functional data.
result Improved survey data quality through better identification of respondent difficulty.

The rapid development of computing power and efficient Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) simulation algorithms have revolutionized Bayesian statistics, making it a highly practical inference method in applied work. However, MCMC algorithms tend to be computationally demanding, and are particularly slow for large datasets…

2018-07-23abs ↗pdf ↗

The survey we are presenting is over 22 years old but it has still some ideas which where never published (except in Polish). This survey is the base of the third Chapter of my book: KNOTS: From combinatorics of knot diagrams to combinatorial topology based on knots, which is still in preparation (but compare http://ar…

2008-10-23abs ↗pdf ↗

Survey data imputation methods impact feature selection and importance assessment.

problem Impact of different imputation methods on feature selection and importance assessment in survey data.
method Investigated eight imputation methods (listwise deletion, MICE, missRanger, mixGBoost) and three learners (Random Forest, XGBoost, linear model) in a simulation study.
result Different imputation methods yield varying feature selection and importance assessments.

Proposes a machine learning predictor for survey data.

problem Limited integration of machine learning in traditional surveys.
method Predictor supported by machine learning algorithms, analyzing departures from model assumptions.
result Machine learning predictors are a good alternative, even under small departures from model assumptions.

Traffic signal control is an important and challenging real-world problem, which aims to minimize the travel time of vehicles by coordinating their movements at the road intersections. Current traffic signal control systems in use still rely heavily on oversimplified information and rule-based methods, although we now …

2019-04-17abs ↗pdf ↗

Unified survey of treatment effect heterogeneity and uplift modeling methods.

problem Estimating heterogeneous treatment effects and uplift modeling.
method Unified survey of treatment effect heterogeneity and uplift modeling approaches.
result Unified notations for comparing methods and applications in personalized marketing, medicine, and social studies.

This paper surveys enterprise financial risk analysis from Big Data and LLMs perspectives.

problem Predicting future financial risk of enterprises.
method Systematic literature review of enterprise financial risk analysis approaches from Big Data and LLMs perspectives.
result Offers a holistic synthesis of research methods and key insights.

Deep learning models outperform MICE in large survey imputation but with hyperparameter tuning.

problem Comparing deep learning and MICE for missing data imputation in large surveys.
method Extensive simulation studies comparing four machine learning-based MI methods: MICE with classification trees, MICE with random forests, generative adversarial imputation networks, and multiple imputation using denoising autoencoders.
result MICE with classification trees consistently outperforms deep learning methods in terms of bias, mean squared error, and coverage.

When considering answering important questions with data, unsupervised data offers extensive insight opportunity and unique challenges. This study considers student survey data with a specific goal of clustering students into like groups with underlying concept of identifying different poverty levels. Fuzzy logic is co…

2018-11-28abs ↗pdf ↗

Survey on Evidential Deep Learning for uncertainty estimation in deep neural networks.

problem Uncertainty estimation in deep neural networks with overhead or limited diversity.
method Evidential Deep Learning, parameterizing distributions over distributions.
result Single model and forward pass uncertainty estimation with a unified notation.

Survey of data augmentation techniques for time series classification with neural networks.

problem Small datasets in time series recognition.
method Four families of data augmentation: transformation-based, pattern mixing, generative models, and decomposition methods.
result Empirical evaluation of 12 data augmentation methods on 128 datasets.

Survey of machine learning methods for Windows malware classification.

problem Difficulties in malware classification through data collection, labeling, feature creation, and selection.
method Review of current methods and challenges in malware classification.
result Discussion of constraints and unaddressed problems for machine learning in cybersecurity.

Survey examines deep neural networks' ability to approximate functions.

problem Approximation of target functions by deep neural networks.
method Examination of feed-forward and residual architectures, focusing on optimization problems in regression and classification.
result Deep neural networks can approximate functions effectively, especially with ReLU activation functions.

The paper proposes a method to assess survey data credibility without needing many samples, regardless of data dimension.

problem Assessing the credibility of survey data across different dimensions.
method Task-based approach and model-specific distance metric for verifying survey data credibility in regression models.
result The sample complexity of the proposed algorithm is independent of the data dimension, making it more efficient.

Survey of RL methods for optimizing power grid topologies.

problem Optimizing power grid operation with adaptive control strategies.
method Reinforcement Learning (RL) for dynamic and uncertain environments.
result Comprehensive evaluation of RL-based methods for power grid topology optimization.

Survey of SDR methods for high-dimensional regression and embedding.

problem Reducing dimensionality in high-dimensional data.
method Involves both statistical and machine learning approaches, covering inverse and forward regression methods.
result Supervised Kernel Dimension Reduction is equivalent to supervised PCA.

An efficient LDP protocol for QMLE with improved practicality and theoretical guarantees.

problem Difficult implementation of existing LDP QMLE for large-scale surveys.
method Developed an alternative LDP protocol without long waiting time, high communication cost, and derivative boundedness assumptions.
result Sufficient conditions for consistency and asymptotic normality of the protocol.