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We herein propose a variant of the projected inexact Levenberg--Marquardt method (ILMM) for solving constrained nonsmooth equations. Since the orthogonal projection onto the feasible set may be computationally expensive, we propose a local…
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Within the educational context, students' assessment tests are routinely validated through Item Response Theory (IRT) models which assume unidimensionality and absence of Differential Item Functioning (DIF). In this paper, we investigate if…
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Data-driven individualized decision making has recently received increasing research interests. Most existing methods rely on the assumption of no unmeasured confounding, which unfortunately cannot be ensured in practice especially in…
This paper studies the problems of identifiability and estimation in high-dimensional nonparametric latent structure models. We introduce an identifiability theorem that generalizes existing conditions, establishing a unified framework…
This study proposes a mixed logit model with multivariate nonparametric finite mixture distributions. The support of the distribution is specified as a high-dimensional grid over the coefficient space, with equal or unequal intervals…
We consider survival data in the presence of a cure fraction, meaning that some subjects will never experience the event of interest. We assume a mixture cure model consisting of two sub-models: one for the probability of being uncured…
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