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Join Series A tomorrow for what promises to be a lively discussion meeting on Carl Morris' Finite Selection Model and its applications throughout experimental design
We wanted to invite you to the next discussion paper meeting ‘Balanced and Robust Randomized Treatment Assignments: The Finite Selection Model for the Health Insurance Experiment and Beyond’ on October 22nd at 3 pm (UK time) (more details on link!)
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Discussion paper meetings
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October 21, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Join Series A tomorrow for what promises to be a lively discussion meeting on Carl Morris' Finite Selection Model and its applications throughout experimental design
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We are looking for new editors for JRSSA! (details at the link)
We are seeking associate editors for a four-year term starting in January 2026.
We are looking for new editors for JRSSA! (details at the link)
We are seeking associate editors for a four-year term starting in January 2026.
Associate editors sought for Series A
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October 22, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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We are looking for new editors for JRSSA! (details at the link)
We are seeking associate editors for a four-year term starting in January 2026.
We are looking for new editors for JRSSA! (details at the link)
We are seeking associate editors for a four-year term starting in January 2026.
We wanted to invite you to the next discussion paper meeting ‘Balanced and Robust Randomized Treatment Assignments: The Finite Selection Model for the Health Insurance Experiment and Beyond’ on October 22nd at 3 pm (UK time) (more details on link!)
rss.org.uk/training-eve...
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Discussion paper meetings
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October 20, 2025 at 7:44 PM
We wanted to invite you to the next discussion paper meeting ‘Balanced and Robust Randomized Treatment Assignments: The Finite Selection Model for the Health Insurance Experiment and Beyond’ on October 22nd at 3 pm (UK time) (more details on link!)
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🆕Latent class multi-state quantile regression with a cure fraction: application to jail recidivism in the USA
💡@barross993.bsky.social and
@afarcome.bsky.social
analyze time spent after release with a quantile regression approach
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💡@barross993.bsky.social and
@afarcome.bsky.social
analyze time spent after release with a quantile regression approach
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Latent class multi-state quantile regression with a cure fraction: application to jail recidivism in the U.S.
Abstract. We propose a multi-state quantile regression model that admits a cure-fraction for each possible transition, so that individuals may not experien
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October 3, 2025 at 1:00 PM
🆕Latent class multi-state quantile regression with a cure fraction: application to jail recidivism in the USA
💡@barross993.bsky.social and
@afarcome.bsky.social
analyze time spent after release with a quantile regression approach
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💡@barross993.bsky.social and
@afarcome.bsky.social
analyze time spent after release with a quantile regression approach
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🆕Improving survey inference in two-phase designs using Bayesian machine learning
🪶Wang, Chen, et al with a very clear purpose in the title of their paper
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🪶Wang, Chen, et al with a very clear purpose in the title of their paper
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Validate User
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October 3, 2025 at 12:51 PM
🆕Improving survey inference in two-phase designs using Bayesian machine learning
🪶Wang, Chen, et al with a very clear purpose in the title of their paper
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🪶Wang, Chen, et al with a very clear purpose in the title of their paper
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🆕Multilayer topology-aware graph contrastive learning for fraud detection in the Ethereum transaction network
💱Chen et al delve in Blockchain networks
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💱Chen et al delve in Blockchain networks
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Multilayer topology-aware graph contrastive learning for fraud detection in the Ethereum transaction network
Abstract. Fraud detection in blockchain networks presents unique challenges due to the decentralized and pseudonymous nature of transactions. This study in
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October 1, 2025 at 2:53 PM
🆕Multilayer topology-aware graph contrastive learning for fraud detection in the Ethereum transaction network
💱Chen et al delve in Blockchain networks
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💱Chen et al delve in Blockchain networks
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🆕A Bayesian approach to estimate causal peer influence accounting for latent network homophily
💡Um , Sweet and Adhikari show a framework to disentangle homophily from causal peer influence
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💡Um , Sweet and Adhikari show a framework to disentangle homophily from causal peer influence
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Validate User
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September 23, 2025 at 9:02 AM
🆕A Bayesian approach to estimate causal peer influence accounting for latent network homophily
💡Um , Sweet and Adhikari show a framework to disentangle homophily from causal peer influence
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💡Um , Sweet and Adhikari show a framework to disentangle homophily from causal peer influence
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🆕Bayesian analysis of diffusion-driven multi-type epidemic models with application to COVID-19
💡Bouranis et al. develop a flexible Bayesian evidence synthesis approach to model age-specific transmission dynamics of COVID-19 based on daily death counts
💡Bouranis et al. develop a flexible Bayesian evidence synthesis approach to model age-specific transmission dynamics of COVID-19 based on daily death counts
September 19, 2025 at 8:12 AM
🆕Bayesian analysis of diffusion-driven multi-type epidemic models with application to COVID-19
💡Bouranis et al. develop a flexible Bayesian evidence synthesis approach to model age-specific transmission dynamics of COVID-19 based on daily death counts
💡Bouranis et al. develop a flexible Bayesian evidence synthesis approach to model age-specific transmission dynamics of COVID-19 based on daily death counts
🆕Identifying enhanced generalized linear model estimation with nonignorable missing outcomes
💡Beppu, Choi, Morikawa & Im try to respond what happens when people don't respond to surveys because of their actual (unobserved) answer?
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💡Beppu, Choi, Morikawa & Im try to respond what happens when people don't respond to surveys because of their actual (unobserved) answer?
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Identifying enhanced generalized linear model estimation with nonignorable missing outcomes
Abstract. Missing data often result in undesirable bias and loss of efficiency. These issues become substantial when the response mechanism is nonignorable
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September 19, 2025 at 8:10 AM
🆕Identifying enhanced generalized linear model estimation with nonignorable missing outcomes
💡Beppu, Choi, Morikawa & Im try to respond what happens when people don't respond to surveys because of their actual (unobserved) answer?
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💡Beppu, Choi, Morikawa & Im try to respond what happens when people don't respond to surveys because of their actual (unobserved) answer?
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🆕Robust inference for geographic regression discontinuity designs: assessing the impact of police precincts
💡Kendall et al analyze how smaller, sub-municipal boundaries like police districts, precincts, and service areas also influence police outcomes
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💡Kendall et al analyze how smaller, sub-municipal boundaries like police districts, precincts, and service areas also influence police outcomes
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Robust inference for geographic regression discontinuity designs: assessing the impact of police precincts
Abstract. We study variation in policing outcomes attributable to differential policing practices in New York City (NYC) using geographic regression discon
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September 3, 2025 at 12:01 PM
🆕Robust inference for geographic regression discontinuity designs: assessing the impact of police precincts
💡Kendall et al analyze how smaller, sub-municipal boundaries like police districts, precincts, and service areas also influence police outcomes
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💡Kendall et al analyze how smaller, sub-municipal boundaries like police districts, precincts, and service areas also influence police outcomes
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Who increases emergency department (ED) use? New insights from the Oregon health insurance experiment
💡Austin Denteh and Helge Liebert
estimate the heterogeneous impacts of Medicaid on ED use and characterize them
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💡Austin Denteh and Helge Liebert
estimate the heterogeneous impacts of Medicaid on ED use and characterize them
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Who increases emergency department use? New insights from the Oregon health insurance experiment
Abstract. We provide new insights regarding the headline result that Medicaid increased emergency department (ED) use from the Oregon experiment. Using cau
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August 26, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Who increases emergency department (ED) use? New insights from the Oregon health insurance experiment
💡Austin Denteh and Helge Liebert
estimate the heterogeneous impacts of Medicaid on ED use and characterize them
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💡Austin Denteh and Helge Liebert
estimate the heterogeneous impacts of Medicaid on ED use and characterize them
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🆕Long-term trends of US county-level extreme ozone concentrations with long memory and changepoint considerations
🌬️Lee and Lee develop a long-memory extreme series model using a copula transformation to quantify long-term trends of extreme ozone
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🌬️Lee and Lee develop a long-memory extreme series model using a copula transformation to quantify long-term trends of extreme ozone
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Long-term trends of US county-level extreme ozone concentrations with long memory and changepoint considerations
Abstract. We quantify long-term linear trends in weekly maximum ground-level ozone concentrations of 395 US counties by considering two critical issues: ch
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August 21, 2025 at 9:18 AM
🆕Long-term trends of US county-level extreme ozone concentrations with long memory and changepoint considerations
🌬️Lee and Lee develop a long-memory extreme series model using a copula transformation to quantify long-term trends of extreme ozone
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🌬️Lee and Lee develop a long-memory extreme series model using a copula transformation to quantify long-term trends of extreme ozone
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🆕Bayesian safe policy learning with chance constrained optimization: application to military security assessment during the Vietnam War
🤔Jia Ben-Michael and Imai examine whether a security assessment algorithm deployed during the Vietnam War could have been improved
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🤔Jia Ben-Michael and Imai examine whether a security assessment algorithm deployed during the Vietnam War could have been improved
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Bayesian safe policy learning with chance constrained optimization: application to military security assessment during the Vietnam War
Abstract. Algorithmic decisions are increasingly used in high-stake domains such as criminal justice and medicine. We examine whether a security assessment
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August 21, 2025 at 9:16 AM
🆕Bayesian safe policy learning with chance constrained optimization: application to military security assessment during the Vietnam War
🤔Jia Ben-Michael and Imai examine whether a security assessment algorithm deployed during the Vietnam War could have been improved
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🤔Jia Ben-Michael and Imai examine whether a security assessment algorithm deployed during the Vietnam War could have been improved
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🆕Counterfactual Q-learning via the linear Buckley–James method for longitudinal survival data
‼️Lee and Kim introduce the Counterfactual Buckley–James Q-Learning framework, to address challenges arising from longitudinal survival data.
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‼️Lee and Kim introduce the Counterfactual Buckley–James Q-Learning framework, to address challenges arising from longitudinal survival data.
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Counterfactual Q-learning via the linear Buckley–James method for longitudinal survival data
Abstract. Treatment strategies are critical in healthcare, particularly when outcomes are subject to censoring. This study introduces the Counterfactual Bu
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August 12, 2025 at 12:44 PM
🆕Counterfactual Q-learning via the linear Buckley–James method for longitudinal survival data
‼️Lee and Kim introduce the Counterfactual Buckley–James Q-Learning framework, to address challenges arising from longitudinal survival data.
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‼️Lee and Kim introduce the Counterfactual Buckley–James Q-Learning framework, to address challenges arising from longitudinal survival data.
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🆕 Capturing the Spatio-Temporal Diffusion Effects of Armed Conflict: A Non-parametric Smoothing Approach
💡@dracek.bsky.social Thurner and Kauermann develop a statistical model to capture the spatio-temporal
diffusion effects of armed conflict (@lmumuenchen.bsky.social)
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💡@dracek.bsky.social Thurner and Kauermann develop a statistical model to capture the spatio-temporal
diffusion effects of armed conflict (@lmumuenchen.bsky.social)
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Capturing the spatio-temporal diffusion effects of armed conflict: A nonparametric smoothing approach
Abstract. Facilitated by advancements in conflict event databases, studies have moved towards predicting armed conflict and understanding its determinants
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August 6, 2025 at 3:13 PM
🆕 Capturing the Spatio-Temporal Diffusion Effects of Armed Conflict: A Non-parametric Smoothing Approach
💡@dracek.bsky.social Thurner and Kauermann develop a statistical model to capture the spatio-temporal
diffusion effects of armed conflict (@lmumuenchen.bsky.social)
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💡@dracek.bsky.social Thurner and Kauermann develop a statistical model to capture the spatio-temporal
diffusion effects of armed conflict (@lmumuenchen.bsky.social)
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🆕The effect of past successes on the probability of a current success: evidence from a natural experiment
♟️Adriaan Kalwij investigates the momentum effects to assess chess tournament performance
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♟️Adriaan Kalwij investigates the momentum effects to assess chess tournament performance
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The effect of past successes on the probability of a current success: evidence from a natural experiment
Abstract. A theoretical prediction for performance in a tournament is that a player’s performance in a round can be affected by their results in previous r
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July 22, 2025 at 6:04 PM
🆕The effect of past successes on the probability of a current success: evidence from a natural experiment
♟️Adriaan Kalwij investigates the momentum effects to assess chess tournament performance
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♟️Adriaan Kalwij investigates the momentum effects to assess chess tournament performance
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🆕A framework for studying causal effects of speech style: application to US presidential campaigns
💡Damann, Knox & Lucas develop a formal causal framework to overcome limitations of text-only analyses
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💡Damann, Knox & Lucas develop a formal causal framework to overcome limitations of text-only analyses
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A framework for studying causal effects of speech style: application to US presidential campaigns
Abstract. Numerous disciplines hypothesize about the causal effects of speech, which influences others not only through which words are spoken, but also ho
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July 22, 2025 at 6:02 PM
🆕A framework for studying causal effects of speech style: application to US presidential campaigns
💡Damann, Knox & Lucas develop a formal causal framework to overcome limitations of text-only analyses
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💡Damann, Knox & Lucas develop a formal causal framework to overcome limitations of text-only analyses
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🆕Spatially selected and dependent random effects for small area estimation with application to rent burden
💡Kawano Parker & Li we introduce a model that accounts for spatial dependence in random effects as well and effect selection latent processes
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💡Kawano Parker & Li we introduce a model that accounts for spatial dependence in random effects as well and effect selection latent processes
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July 22, 2025 at 6:00 PM
🆕Spatially selected and dependent random effects for small area estimation with application to rent burden
💡Kawano Parker & Li we introduce a model that accounts for spatial dependence in random effects as well and effect selection latent processes
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💡Kawano Parker & Li we introduce a model that accounts for spatial dependence in random effects as well and effect selection latent processes
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🆕Flexible Bayesian modelling of age-specific counts in many demographic subpopulations
💡Zens proposes a Bayesian model for the joint analysis of age-specific counts in many, potentially small, demographic subpopulations
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💡Zens proposes a Bayesian model for the joint analysis of age-specific counts in many, potentially small, demographic subpopulations
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Flexible Bayesian modelling of age-specific counts in many demographic subpopulations
Abstract. Analysing age-specific mortality, fertility, and migration patterns is a crucial task in demography with significant policy relevance. In practic
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June 30, 2025 at 12:16 PM
🆕Flexible Bayesian modelling of age-specific counts in many demographic subpopulations
💡Zens proposes a Bayesian model for the joint analysis of age-specific counts in many, potentially small, demographic subpopulations
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💡Zens proposes a Bayesian model for the joint analysis of age-specific counts in many, potentially small, demographic subpopulations
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🆕Estimating methane emissions from the upstream oil and gas industry using a multi-stage framework
💡Wigle and Béliveau provide a method for estimating methane inventories that are simple to interpret
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💡Wigle and Béliveau provide a method for estimating methane inventories that are simple to interpret
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June 30, 2025 at 12:14 PM
🆕Estimating methane emissions from the upstream oil and gas industry using a multi-stage framework
💡Wigle and Béliveau provide a method for estimating methane inventories that are simple to interpret
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💡Wigle and Béliveau provide a method for estimating methane inventories that are simple to interpret
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🆕The analysis of criminal recidivism: a hierarchical model-based approach for the analysis of zero-inflated, spatially correlated recurring event data
💡Silva et al introduce models that overcome limitations in methods used to analyse criminal recidivism
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💡Silva et al introduce models that overcome limitations in methods used to analyse criminal recidivism
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The analysis of criminal recidivism: a hierarchical model-based approach for the analysis of zero-inflated, spatially correlated recurring event data
Abstract. The life course perspective in criminology has become prominent in recent years, offering valuable insights into various patterns of criminal pat
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June 30, 2025 at 12:13 PM
🆕The analysis of criminal recidivism: a hierarchical model-based approach for the analysis of zero-inflated, spatially correlated recurring event data
💡Silva et al introduce models that overcome limitations in methods used to analyse criminal recidivism
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💡Silva et al introduce models that overcome limitations in methods used to analyse criminal recidivism
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🆕Joint estimation of insurance loss development factors using Bayesian hidden Markov models
💡Conor Goold proposes a novel application of Bayesian hidden Markov models to loss development modelling, where latent states are automatically learned from the data.
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💡Conor Goold proposes a novel application of Bayesian hidden Markov models to loss development modelling, where latent states are automatically learned from the data.
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Joint estimation of insurance loss development factors using Bayesian hidden Markov models
Abstract. Loss development modelling is the actuarial practice of predicting the total ultimate losses incurred on a set of policies once all claims are re
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June 17, 2025 at 3:10 PM
🆕Joint estimation of insurance loss development factors using Bayesian hidden Markov models
💡Conor Goold proposes a novel application of Bayesian hidden Markov models to loss development modelling, where latent states are automatically learned from the data.
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💡Conor Goold proposes a novel application of Bayesian hidden Markov models to loss development modelling, where latent states are automatically learned from the data.
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New: The short-term association between environmental variables and mortality: evidence from Europe
🪶Robben Antonio and Kleinow develop a modelling framework where a baseline model captures a region-specific, seasonal trend observed within weekly mortality rates
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🪶Robben Antonio and Kleinow develop a modelling framework where a baseline model captures a region-specific, seasonal trend observed within weekly mortality rates
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The short-term association between environmental variables and mortality: evidence from Europe
Abstract. Using fine-grained, publicly available data, this article studies the short-term association between environmental factors, i.e. weather and air
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June 17, 2025 at 3:07 PM
New: The short-term association between environmental variables and mortality: evidence from Europe
🪶Robben Antonio and Kleinow develop a modelling framework where a baseline model captures a region-specific, seasonal trend observed within weekly mortality rates
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🪶Robben Antonio and Kleinow develop a modelling framework where a baseline model captures a region-specific, seasonal trend observed within weekly mortality rates
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A Bayesian zero-inflated spatially varying coefficients model for overdispersed binomial data
🪶Wen and others developed a zero-inflated beta-binomial model within a spatiotemporal framework to analyze cardiometabolic risk factors (CRFs)
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🪶Wen and others developed a zero-inflated beta-binomial model within a spatiotemporal framework to analyze cardiometabolic risk factors (CRFs)
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A Bayesian zero-inflated spatially varying coefficients model for overdispersed binomial data
Abstract. Cardiometabolic risk factors (CRFs) during pregnancy are early indicators of maternal diseases, such as stroke and type 2 diabetes. The total num
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June 9, 2025 at 3:27 PM
A Bayesian zero-inflated spatially varying coefficients model for overdispersed binomial data
🪶Wen and others developed a zero-inflated beta-binomial model within a spatiotemporal framework to analyze cardiometabolic risk factors (CRFs)
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🪶Wen and others developed a zero-inflated beta-binomial model within a spatiotemporal framework to analyze cardiometabolic risk factors (CRFs)
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🆕Graphical displays and related statistical measures of health disparities between groups in complex sample surveys
🖌️ Ramos ( @mframos.bsky.social )
Graubard & Gastwirth develop measures focused on estimating disparities in health variables related to adverse health status
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🖌️ Ramos ( @mframos.bsky.social )
Graubard & Gastwirth develop measures focused on estimating disparities in health variables related to adverse health status
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Graphical displays and related statistical measures of health disparities between groups in complex sample surveys
Abstract. Different methods for describing health disparities in the distributions of continuous measured health-related variables among groups provide mor
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June 9, 2025 at 2:55 PM
🆕Graphical displays and related statistical measures of health disparities between groups in complex sample surveys
🖌️ Ramos ( @mframos.bsky.social )
Graubard & Gastwirth develop measures focused on estimating disparities in health variables related to adverse health status
doi.org/10.1093/jrss...
🖌️ Ramos ( @mframos.bsky.social )
Graubard & Gastwirth develop measures focused on estimating disparities in health variables related to adverse health status
doi.org/10.1093/jrss...