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Prediction of healthcare costs on consumer direct health plan in the Brazilian context
Claudia M. Peixoto, Diego Marcondes, Mariana P. Melo +2
The rise in healthcare costs has led to the adoption of cost-sharing devices in health plans. This article explores this discussion by simulating Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) to…
Distribution-free Deviation Bounds and The Role of Domain Knowledge in Learning via Model Selection with Cross-validation Risk Estimation
Diego Marcondes, Cláudia Peixoto
Cross-validation is one of the most widely used tools for risk estimation and model selection in statistics and machine learning, yet its theoretical properties when embedded in a…
Assessing randomness in case assignment: the case study of the Brazilian Supreme Court
Diego Marcondes, Cláudia Peixoto, Julio Michael Stern
Sortition, i.e., random appointment for public duty, has been employed by societies throughout the years, especially for duties related to the judicial system, as a firewall design…
A survey of a hurdle model for heavy-tailed data based on the generalized lambda distribution
Diego Marcondes, Cláudia Peixoto, Ana Carolina Maia
In this survey we present an extensive research of the vast literature about the Generalized Lambda Distribution (GLD) and propose a hurdle, or two-way, model whose associated dist…
Random Coin Tossing with unknown bias
Diego Marcondes, Cláudia Peixoto
Consider a coin tossing experiment which consists of tossing one of two coins at a time, according to a renewal process. The first coin is fair and the second has probability $1/2…
Stopping Times of Random Walks on a Hypercube
Cláudia Peixoto, Diego Marcondes
A random walk on a -dimensional hypercube is a discrete time stochastic process whose state space is the set , which has uniform probability of reaching any neigh…
Exchangeability and the Law of Maturity
Fernando Vieira Bonassi, Rafael Bassi Stern, Sergio Wechsler +1
The law of maturity is the belief that less-observed events are becoming mature and, therefore, more likely to occur in the future. Previous studies have shown that the assumption…