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48 results for survey validation

AI-assisted interviews allow respondents to describe experiences naturally, but mapping those accounts into structured survey variables is fallible.

problem Mapping AI-assisted interview responses into structured survey variables is fallible.
method Adaptive Matrix Validation (AMV) is proposed, which involves mapping responses into tabular data and using a small set of structured questions for statistical adjustment.
result The estimator calibrates mapped values using validation answers from other respondents and corrects remaining error with validation answers observed for the target respondent.

Used to estimate the risk of an estimator or to perform model selection, cross-validation is a widespread strategy because of its simplicity and its apparent universality. Many results exist on the model selection performances of cross-validation procedures. This survey intends to relate these results to the most recen…

2009-07-27abs ↗pdf ↗

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.

Digital personas improve survey results for stable attributes but fail for subjective responses.

problem When can digital personas reliably approximate human survey findings?
method Using LISS panel, constructed personas from background variables and survey histories, tested against held-out post-cutoff answers.
result Digital personas improve alignment with human response distributions for stable attributes but fail for subjective responses.

Machine learning improves official statistics but needs rigorous validation.

problem Lack of methodological robustness in machine learning for official statistics.
method Total Machine Learning Error (TMLE) framework to validate ML models.
result TMLE addresses representativeness and measurement errors in ML models.

This text is the rejoinder following the discussion of a survey paper about minimal penalties and the slope heuristics (Arlot, 2019. Minimal penalties and the slope heuristics: a survey. Journal de la SFDS). While commenting on the remarks made by the discussants, it provides two new results about the slope heuristics …

2019-09-30abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper tests the credibility of public and private surveys using linear regression and differential privacy.

problem Ensuring the validity of data analysis results from sample surveys using linear regression.
method Designing an algorithm to test the credibility of surveys and extending it to handle LDP.
result The algorithm achieves optimal estimation error bound for 1\ell_1 linear regression and reduces sample complexity.

The paper studies how to allocate human validation in AI-assisted tasks to minimize errors.

problem Heterogeneous reliability of AI-generated signals across tasks, products, and customer segments.
method Tuned prediction-powered inference, upper confidence bounds policy, Neyman square-root rule.
result The proposed policy outperforms uniform and epsilon-greedy allocation, closing most of the gap to the oracle when reliability is heterogeneous.

To study users' travel behaviour and travel time between origin and destination, researchers employ travel surveys. Although there is consensus in the field about the potential, after over ten years of research and field experimentation, Smartphone-based travel surveys still did not take off to a large scale. Here, com…

2019-12-24abs ↗pdf ↗

This text is a survey on cross-validation. We define all classical cross-validation procedures, and we study their properties for two different goals: estimating the risk of a given estimator, and selecting the best estimator among a given family. For the risk estimation problem, we compute the bias (which can also be …

2017-03-09abs ↗pdf ↗

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.

PPI uses predictions and weighting to infer from partially labeled data.

problem Valid inference with partially labeled data.
method Combines model-based predictions with bias correction from labeled data, using Horvitz-Thompson and Hájek corrections.
result IPW-adjusted PPI with estimated propensities performs similarly to known-probability case.

Anomaly detection is a significant problem faced in several research areas. Detecting and correctly classifying something unseen as anomalous is a challenging problem that has been tackled in many different manners over the years. Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) and the adversarial training process have been rec…

2019-06-27abs ↗pdf ↗

PPI uses survey sampling methods for inference, bridging ML and statistics.

problem Combining machine learning predictions with small labeled data for valid inference.
method Equivalence of PPI estimators to survey sampling methods.
result PPI estimators are algebraically equivalent to survey sampling methods.

PICZL improves photometric redshifts for AGN in all-sky surveys.

problem Challenges in accurately computing photo-z for AGN due to interplay of SMBH and host galaxy emissions.
method PICZL uses an ensemble of CNNs with cross-channel integration of image and catalog data, leveraging Gaussian mixture models.
result PICZL achieves a photo-z variance of 4.5% and outlier fraction of 5.6% on a validation sample of 8098 AGN, outperforming previous methods.

Experts predict significant adoption of decentralized finance by 2034, with traditional finance adapting.

problem Adoption and integration of decentralized finance (DeFi) in financial services.
method Survey analysis using New Institutional Economics and Dynamic Capabilities Theory.
result Experts expect adoption of DeFi to rise from negligible to 43% by 2034, with traditional finance likely to embrace it.

New framework learns complex AI attitudes from heterogeneous data.

problem Heterogeneous ordinal structure in AI attitudes, poorly captured by existing methods.
method Monotone Gaussian score embedding, BNP complexity discovery, confirmatory fixed-K estimation.
result Reduced holdout MSE by 25.8% over single-graph baseline.

Survey revisits vector calculus results using exterior derivative and provides a new formulation of Stokes' theorem.

problem Classical results in vector calculus and analysis.
method Generalised perspective on the exterior derivative and a higher-dimensional Mean Value Theorem.
result Provides a natural formulation of Stokes' theorem and a practical algorithm for exterior differentiation.

New estimator improves statistical validity of synthetic data integration.

problem Combining synthetic data generated by large language models with real data for valid inference.
method Generalized method of moments estimator with theoretical guarantees.
result Improves estimates of target parameter through interactions between synthetic and real data.

Designing a controller for autonomous vehicles capable of providing adequate performance in all driving scenarios is challenging due to the highly complex environment and inability to test the system in the wide variety of scenarios which it may encounter after deployment. However, deep learning methods have shown grea…

2019-12-23abs ↗pdf ↗

Can humans impute missing data with similar proficiency as machines? This is the question we aim to answer in this paper. We present a novel idea of converting observations with missing data in to a survey questionnaire, which is presented to crowdworkers for completion. We replicate a multiple imputation framework by …

2016-12-08abs ↗pdf ↗

An important application of intelligent vehicles is advance detection of dangerous events such as collisions. This problem is framed as a problem of optimal alarm choice given predictive models for vehicle location and motion. Techniques for real-time collision detection are surveyed and grouped into three classes: ran…

2017-08-16abs ↗pdf ↗

Survey of global Calderón-Zygmund inequalities on Riemannian manifolds.

problem Validity and failure of W2,pW^{2,p} regularity for Poisson equation solutions.
method Various geometric conditions and methods to obtain LpL^p-Hessian estimates.
result Integral inequality may fail even with lower sectional curvature bound.

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.

Chiseling finds valid subgroups interactively, improving on existing methods.

problem Finding valid subgroups with inferential guarantees in regression and causal inference.
method Interactive subgroup refinement with inferential validity guarantees.
result Chiseling identifies better subgroups than existing methods with inferential guarantees.