3 papers
econ.EM2025
Compound Estimation for Binomials
Yan Chen, Lihua Lei
Many applications involve estimating the mean of multiple binomial outcomes as a common problem -- assessing intergenerational mobility of census tracts, estimating prevalence of i…
math.ST2024
Adversarial Estimation of Assortment Probabilities under Independence Structure
Alexandre Belloni, Yan Chen, Matthew Harding
We consider the problem of estimating assortment probabilities, which is common in operations management applications, including product bundling, advertising, etc. Existing approa…
stat.ME2022
Global Bias-Corrected Divide-and-Conquer by Quantile-Matched Composite for General Nonparametric Regressions
Yan Chen, Lu Lin
The issues of bias-correction and robustness are crucial in the strategy of divide-and-conquer (DC), especially for asymmetric nonparametric models with massive data. It is known t…