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The bootstrap is a widely used procedure for statistical inference because of its simplicity and attractive statistical properties. However, the vanilla version of bootstrap is no longer feasible computationally for many modern massive…
We propose a new estimator for the high-dimensional linear regression model with observation error in the design where the number of coefficients is potentially larger than the sample size. The main novelty of our procedure is that the…
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We present a simulation-based evaluation of the Inference Headroom Ratio (IHR), a dimensionless diagnostic quantity for characterizing inference stability in constrained decision systems. IHR formalizes the relationship between a system's…
This paper illustrates two algorithms designed in Forneron & Ng (2020): the resampled Newton-Raphson (rNR) and resampled quasi-Newton (rqN) algorithms which speed-up estimation and bootstrap inference for structural models. An empirical…
In econometrics, many parameters of interest can be written as ratios of expectations. The main approach to construct confidence intervals for such parameters is the delta method. However, this asymptotic procedure yields intervals that may…
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We consider the problem of constructing confidence intervals (CIs) for the population mean of $N$ values $\{x_1, \ldots, x_N\} \subset \Sigma^N$ based on a random sample of size $n$, denoted by $X^n \equiv (X_1, \ldots, X_n)$, drawn…