A guide to robust statistical methods in neuroscience

RR Wilcox, GA Rousselet - Current protocols in neuroscience, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
There is a vast array of new and improved methods for comparing groups and studying
associations that offer the potential for substantially increasing power, providing improved …

A gentle introduction to conformal prediction and distribution-free uncertainty quantification

AN Angelopoulos, S Bates - arXiv preprint arXiv:2107.07511, 2021 - arxiv.org
Black-box machine learning models are now routinely used in high-risk settings, like
medical diagnostics, which demand uncertainty quantification to avoid consequential model …

Design-based identification with formula instruments: A review

K Borusyak, P Hull, X Jaravel - The Econometrics Journal, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Many studies in economics use instruments or treatments which combine a set of
exogenous shocks with other predetermined variables by a known formula. Examples …

Robust statistical methods in R using the WRS2 package

P Mair, R Wilcox - Behavior research methods, 2020 - Springer
This paper introduces the R package WRS2 that implements various robust statistical
methods. It elaborates on the basics of robust statistics by introducing robust location …

Channeling fisher: Randomization tests and the statistical insignificance of seemingly significant experimental results

A Young - The quarterly journal of economics, 2019 - academic.oup.com
I follow The Design of Experiments, using randomization statistical inference to test the null
hypothesis of no treatment effects in a comprehensive sample of 53 experimental papers …

Interdependence and the cost of uncoordinated responses to COVID-19

D Holtz, M Zhao, SG Benzell, CY Cao… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Social distancing is the core policy response to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). But,
as federal, state and local governments begin opening businesses and relaxing shelter-in …

Controlling the false discovery rate via knockoffs

RF Barber, EJ Candès - The Annals of statistics, 2015 - JSTOR
In many fields of science, we observe a response variable together with a large number of
potential explanatory variables, and would like to be able to discover which variables are …

Agnostic notes on regression adjustments to experimental data: Reexamining Freedman's critique

W Lin - 2013 - projecteuclid.org
Agnostic notes on regression adjustments to experimental data: Reexamining Freedman's
critique Page 1 The Annals of Applied Statistics 2013, Vol. 7, No. 1, 295–318 DOI: 10.1214/12-AOAS583 …

Efficient estimation for staggered rollout designs

J Roth, PHC Sant'Anna - Journal of Political Economy …, 2023 - journals.uchicago.edu
We study estimation of causal effects in staggered-rollout designs—that is, settings where
there is staggered treatment adoption and the timing of treatment is as good as randomly …

Statistics and causal inference

PW Holland - Journal of the American statistical Association, 1986 - Taylor & Francis
Problems involving causal inference have dogged at the heels of statistics since its earliest
days. Correlation does not imply causation, and yet causal conclusions drawn from a …