3 papers
stat.ME2025
The Sequential Nature of Science: Quantifying Learning from a Sequence of Studies
Jonas M. Mikhaeil, Donald P. Green, David Blei
Scientific progress is inherently sequential: collective knowledge is updated as new studies enter the literature. We propose the sequential meta-analysis research trace (SMART), w…
stat.ME2025
Sharp Bounds on the Variance of General Regression Adjustment in Randomized Experiments
Jonas M. Mikhaeil, Donald P. Green
A growing statistical literature focuses on causal inference in the context of experiments where the target of inference is the average treatment effect in a finite population and…
stat.ME2025
Quantifying How Much Has Been Learned from a Research Study
Jonas M. Mikhaeil, Donald P. Green
How much does a research study contribute to a scientific literature? We propose a learning metric to quantify how much a research community learns from a given study. To do so, we…