#JSM2021 an exceptionally rare case of ACTUAL out of sample prediction in #MachineLearning#ML#AI: two rounds of the same health data collection by @CDCgov
@CDCgov Yulei He @cdcgov#JSM2021 RANDS 1 (fall 2015) + 2 (spring 2016): Build models on RANDS1 and compare predictions for RANDS2
#JSM2021 Yulei He R-square about 30%; random forests and grad boosting reduce the prediction error by about 4%, shrinking towards the mean; standard errors are way to small (-50% than should be)
#JSM2021 panel led by @minebocek on upskilling for a statistician -- how to learn??
@minebocek#JSM2021@hglanz no shortage of stuff to learn. First identify what you don't know -- that comes from modern media (blogs, twitter, podcasts; groups, communities -- @RLadiesGlobal or local chapters; professional organizations -- @amstatnews ).
1. when will the survey statisticians in the U.S. move from weird variance estimation methods (grouped jackknife) to simple and straightforward (bootstrap)
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2. when will they move from weird imputation methods with limited dimensionality and limited ability to assess the implicit model fit (hotdeck) to those where you explicitly model and understand which variables matter for this particular outcome (ICE)?
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3. when will we move from PROC STEPWISE to lasso as the rest of statistics world has
#JSM2021@jameswagner254 Using Machine Learning and Statistical Models to Predict Survey Costs -- presentation on the several attempts to integrate cost models into responsive design systems
#JSM2021@jameswagner254 Responsive designs operate on indicators of errors and costs. Error indicators: R-indicator, balance indicators, FMI, sensitivity to ignorability assumptions (@bradytwest@Rodjlittle Andridge papers).
Some decisions are made at the sample level (launch new replicate, switch to a new phase of the FU protocol), others at case level (change incentive amount, change mode)
Now let's see how @olson_km is going to live tweet while giving her own #JSM2021 talk
@olson_km#JSM2021@olson_km Decisions in survey design: questions of survey errors and questions of survey costs. Cost studies are hard: difficult to offer experimental variation of design features, with a possible exception of incentives. Observational examinations are more typical.
#JSM2021@olson_km When you have one (repeated) survey at a time, you can better study the impacts of variable design features (but can't provide the basis for the features that do not vary.)
#JSM2021 virtual vs. in-person: IMO there are exactly two activities at an average JSM that dictate in-person presence: cheering at the award ceremonies and browsing the new books. Confidential coffee (job search, editorial boards) can be done with burner phones.
Committee meetings should be /must be zoom calls; nobody is going back to in-person on that one. Having the presentations/files in advance/right after the event is the level of awesomeness not ever achieved by the conferences of the yester year.
Found yourself in a session that’s a poor match? Just click “All agenda” and find something else.
Responses indicate that even statistical professionals have zero clue as to what it takes to have a survey of 1000 randomly selected Americans every week. Proposals to have 50,000 every week would put the sample sizes on par with American Community Survey ($250M / year).
1. The sample size: The rate of new cases in the U.S. right now is about 20 new cases per day per 100K. Thus a sample of n=1000 would capture cases at the Poisson rate of (20 cases / 100 K pop * 7 days * 1000 in sample) = 14. The prediction interval around that is...