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We prove ratio-consistency of the jackknife variance estimator, and certain variants, for a broad class of generalized U-statistics whose variance is asymptotically dominated by their H\'ajek projection, with the classical fixed-order case…

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The empirical covariance matrix is not necessarily the best estimator for the population covariance matrix: we describe a simple method which gives better estimates in two examples. The method models the covariance matrix using truncated…

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This work extends local linear regression to Banach space-valued time series for estimating smoothly varying means and their derivatives in non-stationary data. The asymptotic properties of both the standard and bias-reduced Jackknife…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-03-20 Florian Heinrichs

Estimation of covariance matrices or their inverses plays a central role in many statistical methods. For these methods to work reliably, estimated matrices must not only be invertible but also well-conditioned. In this paper we present an…

Methodology · Statistics 2014-08-06 Eric C. Chi , Kenneth Lange

Bias correction can often improve the finite sample performance of estimators. We show that the choice of bias correction method has no effect on the higher-order variance of semiparametrically efficient parametric estimators, so long as…

Econometrics · Economics 2024-01-29 Jinyong Hahn , David W. Hughes , Guido Kuersteiner , Whitney K. Newey

We present correction terms that allow delete-one Jackknife and Bootstrap methods to be used to recover unbiased estimates of the data covariance matrix of the two-point correlation function $\xi\left(\mathbf{r}\right)$. We demonstrate the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-14 Faizan G. Mohammad , Will J. Percival

I introduce a new method for bias correction of dyadic models with agent-specific fixed effects, including the dyadic link formation model with homophily and degree heterogeneity. The proposed approach uses a jackknife procedure to deal…

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The author uses a Stein-type covariance identity to obtain moment estimators for the parameters of the quadratic polynomial subfamily of Pearson distributions. The asymptotic distribution of the estimators is obtained, and normality and…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-06-08 Giorgos Afendras

The frequentist variability of Bayesian posterior expectations can provide meaningful measures of uncertainty even when models are misspecified. Classical methods to asymptotically approximate the frequentist covariance of Bayesian…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-06-28 Ryan Giordano , Tamara Broderick

Kink model is developed to analyze the data where the regression function is twostage linear but intersects at an unknown threshold. In quantile regression with longitudinal data, previous work assumed that the unknown threshold parameters…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-09-07 Chuang Wan

The jackknife variance estimator and the the infinitesimal jackknife variance estimator are shown to be asymptotically equivalent if the functional of interest is a smooth function of the mean or a trimmed L-statistic with Hoelder…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2007-06-13 Alex D. Gottlieb

In mixed linear models with nonnormal data, the Gaussian Fisher information matrix is called a quasi-information matrix (QUIM). The QUIM plays an important role in evaluating the asymptotic covariance matrix of the estimators of the model…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2007-06-13 Jiming Jiang

We derive fixed effects estimators of parameters and average partial effects in (possibly dynamic) nonlinear panel data models with individual and time effects. They cover logit, probit, ordered probit, Poisson and Tobit models that are…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-12-19 Ivan Fernandez-Val , Martin Weidner

Efron [J. Roy. Statist. Soc. Ser. B 54 (1992) 83--111] proposed a computationally efficient method, called the jackknife-after-bootstrap, for estimating the variance of a bootstrap estimator for independent data. For dependent data, a…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2007-06-13 S. N. Lahiri

Bivariate extreme-value distributions have been used in modeling extremes in environmental sciences and risk management. An important issue is estimating the dependence function, such as the Pickands dependence function. Some estimators for…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2013-03-21 Liang Peng , Linyi Qian , Jingping Yang

We seek to improve estimates of the power spectrum covariance matrix from a limited number of simulations by employing a novel statistical technique known as shrinkage estimation. The shrinkage technique optimally combines an empirical…

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For linear regression models with cross-section or panel data, it is natural to assume that the disturbances are clustered in two dimensions. However, the finite-sample properties of two-way cluster-robust tests and confidence intervals are…

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Deep learning models achieve high predictive accuracy across a broad spectrum of tasks, but rigorously quantifying their predictive uncertainty remains challenging. Usable estimates of predictive uncertainty should (1) cover the true…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Ahmed M. Alaa , Mihaela van der Schaar

We provide computationally attractive methods to obtain jackknife-based cluster-robust variance matrix estimators (CRVEs) for linear regression models estimated by least squares. We also propose several new variants of the wild cluster…

Econometrics · Economics 2023-02-14 James G. MacKinnon , Morten Ørregaard Nielsen , Matthew D. Webb

In multivariate time series, the estimation of the covariance matrix of the observation innovations plays an important role in forecasting as it enables the computation of the standardized forecast error vectors as well as it enables the…

Methodology · Statistics 2008-02-04 K. Triantafyllopoulos