惯性聚合 高效追踪和阅读你感兴趣的博客、新闻、科技资讯
阅读原文 在惯性聚合中打开

推荐订阅源

P
Proofpoint News Feed
T
The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss
aimingoo的专栏
aimingoo的专栏
M
MIT News - Artificial intelligence
N
Netflix TechBlog - Medium
Y
Y Combinator Blog
B
Blog RSS Feed
H
Help Net Security
Blog — PlanetScale
Blog — PlanetScale
Vercel News
Vercel News
Google DeepMind News
Google DeepMind News
Microsoft Security Blog
Microsoft Security Blog
G
Google Developers Blog
OSCHINA 社区最新新闻
OSCHINA 社区最新新闻
博客园 - 司徒正美
L
LangChain Blog
IT之家
IT之家
F
Fortinet All Blogs
V
V2EX
C
Check Point Blog
The Cloudflare Blog
博客园_首页
阮一峰的网络日志
阮一峰的网络日志
A
About on SuperTechFans

math.PR updates on arXiv.org

Visibility in the Boolean Model on Harmonic Manifolds Global estimates on the Brenier map Geodesics and Wandering Exponents in Brochette First-Passage Percolation State-dependent inverse-subordinator time changes of regenerative processes: Excursion structure and multiscale occupation-time limits Randomly twisted transfer operators and singular values statistics Generalized Bessel-Dunkl diffusions An almost sure invariance principle for the Takagi-van der Waerden class functions Central limit theorems for high dimensional lattice polytopes: cosmological polytopes Convergence rate estimates for semigroups and heat kernels associated with resistance forms Second-order Poincaré inequalities and localization on the Poisson space Maximum Probability of Independence in Transitive Matroids On global solutions to the semidiscrete stochastic heat equation The Poisson Tail Conjecture for primes in short intervals A Complete Spectral Analysis of the CEV Operator with Applications to Arbitrage Holographic functions and neural networks From Betting to Empirical Bernstein LIL Concentration of General Stochastic Approximation Under Heavy-Tailed Markovian Noise Pointwise Generalization in Deep Neural Networks Bayesian Latent Space Models for Graphs Are Misspecified: Toward Robust Inference via Generalized Posteriors Wasserstein bounds for denoising diffusion probabilistic models via the Föllmer process A note on connections between the Föllmer process and the denoising diffusion probabilistic model Simple Approximation and Derivative Free Inference-Time Scaling for Diffusion Models via Sequential Monte Carlo on Path Measures Diffusion-Based Stochastic Operator Networks for Uncertainty Quantification in Stochastic Partial Differential Equations A Fourier perspective on the learning dynamics of neural networks: from sample complexities to mechanistic insights Propagation of Chaos in Contextual Flow Maps Dimension-Uniform Discretization Analysis of Preconditioned Annealed Langevin Dynamics for Multimodal Gaussian Mixtures $α$-TCAV: A Unified Framework for Testing with Concept Activation Vectors Scaling Laws from Sequential Feature Recovery: A Solvable Hierarchical Model On the Limits of Latent Reuse in Diffusion Models State-of-art minibatches via novel DPP kernels: discretization, wavelets, and rough objectives
Reducing Seed Bias in Respondent-Driven Sampling by Estim...
Yilin Zhang, Karl Rohe, Sebastien Roch · 2018-12-04 · via math.PR updates on arXiv.org

Respondent-driven sampling (RDS) is a popular approach to study marginalized or hard-to-reach populations. It collects samples from a networked population by incentivizing participants to refer their friends into the study. One major challenge in analyzing RDS samples is seed bias. Seed bias refers to the fact that when the social network is divided into multiple communities (or blocks), the RDS sample might not provide a balanced representation of the different communities in the population, and such unbalance is correlated with the initial participant (or the seed). In this case, the distributions of estimators are typically non-trivial mixtures, which are determined (1) by the seed and (2) by how the referrals transition from one block to another. This paper shows that (1) block-transition probabilities are easy to estimate with high accuracy, and (2) we can use these estimated block-transition probabilities to estimate the stationary distribution over blocks and thus, an estimate of the block proportions. This stationary distribution on blocks has previously been used in the RDS literature to evaluate whether the sampling process has appeared to `mix'. We use these estimated block proportions in a simple post-stratified (PS) estimator that greatly diminishes seed bias. By aggregating over the blocks/strata in this way, we prove that the PS estimator is $\sqrt{n}$-consistent under a Markov model, even when other estimators are not. Simulations show that the PS estimator has smaller Root Mean Square Error (RMSE) compared to the state-of-the-art estimators.