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5 papers

stat.ME2026

How useful is a wrong model? Information-sharing for inference under mean misspecification in linear models

Emily C. Hector

As almost all models are wrong, a mean model's usefulness is often accepted as sufficient justification for its use. In practice, however, standard statistical theory breaks when t…

stat.ME2026

Redefining shared information: a heterogeneity-adaptive framework for meta-analysis

Elizabeth M. Davis, Emily C. Hector

Meta-analytic methods tend to take all-or-nothing approaches to study-level heterogeneity, assuming all studies are heterogeneous or homogeneous, leading to inefficiency and/or bia…

stat.ME2025

Estimating Covariate Effects on Functional Connectivity using Voxel-Level fMRI Data

Wei Zhao, Brian J. Reich, Emily C. Hector

Functional connectivity (FC) analysis of resting-state fMRI data provides a framework for characterizing brain networks and their association with participant-level covariates. Due…

stat.ME2025

Divide-and-conquer with finite sample sizes: valid and efficient possibilistic inference

Emily C. Hector, Leonardo Cella, Ryan Martin

Divide-and-conquer methods use large-sample approximations to provide frequentist guarantees when each block of data is both small enough to facilitate efficient computation and la…

stat.ME2025

A new block covariance regression model and inferential framework for massively large neuroimaging data

Hyoshin Kim, Sujit K. Ghosh, Emily C. Hector

Some evidence suggests that people with autism spectrum disorder exhibit patterns of brain functional dysconnectivity relative to their typically developing peers, but specific fin…