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stat.ME2024
Smoothed pseudo-population bootstrap methods with applications to finite population quantiles
Vanessa McNealis, Christian Léger
This paper introduces smoothed pseudo-population bootstrap methods for the purposes of variance estimation and the construction of confidence intervals for finite population quanti…
stat.ME2024
Joint mixed-effects models for causal inference in clustered network-based observational studies
Vanessa McNealis, Erica E. M. Moodie, Nema Dean
Causal inference on populations embedded in social networks poses technical challenges, since the typical no interference assumption frequently does not hold. Existing methods deve…
stat.ME2023
Revisiting the Effects of Maternal Education on Adolescents' Academic Performance: Doubly Robust Estimation in a Network-Based Observational Study
Vanessa McNealis, Erica E. M. Moodie, Nema Dean
In many contexts, particularly when study subjects are adolescents, peer effects can invalidate typical statistical requirements in the data. For instance, it is plausible that a s…