2 papers
stat.AP2026
Estimating Distributions with Failure Rate Properties from Noisy Quantile Data
Timothy C. Y. Chan, Ningyuan Chen, Craig Fernandes +1
Estimating an unknown cumulative distribution function (cdf) from data, either as a statistical object of interest or as an input to a downstream optimization problem, is fundament…
stat.AP2023
Learning Risk Preferences in Markov Decision Processes: an Application to the Fourth Down Decision in the National Football League
Nathan Sandholtz, Lucas Wu, Martin Puterman +1
For decades, National Football League (NFL) coaches' observed fourth down decisions have been largely inconsistent with prescriptions based on statistical models. In this paper, we…