2 papers
cs.LG2026
Births are difficult to predict even with rich survey and full-population register data
Elizaveta Sivak, Emily M. Cantrell, Thomas Emery +109
Major life events have proven difficult to predict. Does this reflect limits of theory, data, and algorithms, or the large role of chance? We examine one outcome - having a child w…
stat.ME2021
Conditioning on the pre-test versus gain score modeling: revisiting the controversy in a multilevel setting
Bruno Arpino, Silvia Bacci, Leonardo Grilli +2
We consider estimating the effect of a treatment on the progress of subjects tested both before and after treatment assignment. A vast literature compares the competing approaches…