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Six Statistical Senses
Radu V. Craiu, Ruobin Gong, Xiao-Li Meng
This article proposes a set of categories, each one representing a particular distillation of important statistical ideas. Each category is labeled a "sense" because we think of th…
Concordance: In-flight Calibration of X-ray Telescopes without Absolute References
Herman L. Marshall, Yang Chen, Jeremy J. Drake +7
We describe a process for cross-calibrating the effective areas of X-ray telescopes that observe common targets. The targets are not assumed to be "standard candles" in the classic…
Unrepresentative Big Surveys Significantly Overestimate US Vaccine Uptake
Valerie C. Bradley, Shiro Kuriwaki, Michael Isakov +3
Surveys are a crucial tool for understanding public opinion and behavior, and their accuracy depends on maintaining statistical representativeness of their target populations by mi…
A Multi-resolution Theory for Approximating Infinite--Zero-: Transitional Inference, Individualized Predictions, and a World Without Bias-Variance Trade-off
Xinran Li, Xiao-Li Meng
Transitional inference is an empiricism concept, rooted and practiced in clinical medicine since ancient Greece. Knowledge and experiences gained from treating one entity are appli…
Congenial Differential Privacy under Mandated Disclosure
Ruobin Gong, Xiao-Li Meng
Differentially private data releases are often required to satisfy a set of external constraints that reflect the legal, ethical, and logical mandates to which the data curator is…
Double Happiness: Enhancing the Coupled Gains of L-lag Coupling via Control Variates
Radu V. Craiu, Xiao-Li Meng
The recently proposed L-lag coupling for unbiased Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) calls for a joint celebration by MCMC practitioners and theoreticians. For practitioners, it circu…