5 papers
Post-Selection Inference for Network Structure
Eric Auerbach, Jonathan Auerbach, Sidonia McKenzie
Researchers often use the density of connections between groups of agents, such as communities, blocs, or markets, to characterize the structure of a social or economic network. In…
How many federal employees are not satisfied? Using response times to estimate population proportions under the survey variable cause model
Jonathan Auerbach
We propose a statistical model to estimate population proportions under the survey variable cause model (Groves 2006), the setting in which the characteristic measured by the surve…
A Nonparametric Bayesian Model to Adjust for Monitoring Bias with an Application to Identifying Environments Stressed by Climate Change
Jonathan Auerbach, Theresa M. Crimmins, David Kepplinger +2
We propose a new method to adjust for the bias that occurs when an individual monitors a location and reports the status of an event. For example, a monitor may visit a plant each…
Estimating the Number of Street Vendors in New York City: Ratio Estimation with Point Process Data
Jonathan Auerbach
We estimate the number of street vendors in New York City. First, we summarize the process by which vendors receive licenses and permits to operate legally in New York City. We the…
Exposure effects are not automatically useful for policymaking
Eric Auerbach, Jonathan Auerbach, Max Tabord-Meehan
We thank Savje (2023) for a thought-provoking article and appreciate the opportunity to share our perspective as social scientists. In his article, Savje recommends misspecified ex…