3 papers
stat.AP2026
Heritability: A Counterfactual Perspective
Haochen Lei, Jieru Shi, Hongyuan Cao +1
Heritability is a central concept in the long-standing debate about nature versus nurture in biological and social sciences. However, existing notions of heritability are based on…
stat.ML2023
RoME: A Robust Mixed-Effects Bandit Algorithm for Optimizing Mobile Health Interventions
Easton K. Huch, Jieru Shi, Madeline R. Abbott +3
Mobile health leverages personalized and contextually tailored interventions optimized through bandit and reinforcement learning algorithms. In practice, however, challenges such a…
stat.ME2022
Estimating Time-Varying Direct and Indirect Causal Excursion Effects with Longitudinal Binary Outcomes
Jieru Shi, Zhenke Wu, Walter Dempsey
Construction of just-in-time adaptive interventions, such as prompts delivered by mobile apps to promote and maintain behavioral change, requires knowledge about time-varying moder…