3 papers
stat.AP2024
Model Determination for High-Dimensional Longitudinal Data with Missing Observations: An Application to Microfinance Data
Lotta Rüter, Melanie Schienle
We propose an adaption of the multiple imputation random lasso procedure tailored to longitudinal data with unobserved fixed effects which provides robust variable selection in the…
stat.AP2024
The 2023/24 VIEWS Prediction Challenge: Predicting the Number of Fatalities in Armed Conflict, with Uncertainty
Håvard Hegre, Paola Vesco, Michael Colaresi +37
This draft article outlines a prediction challenge where the target is to forecast the number of fatalities in armed conflicts, in the form of the UCDP `best' estimates, aggregated…
stat.AP2023
Direction Augmentation in the Evaluation of Armed Conflict Predictions
Johannes Bracher, Lotta Rüter, Fabian Krüger +2
In many forecasting settings, there is a specific interest in predicting the sign of an outcome variable correctly in addition to its magnitude. For instance, when forecasting arme…