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Record W2169595938 · doi:10.1002/env.700

Robustness in spatial studies I: minimax prediction

2004· article· en· W2169595938 on OpenAlexafffund
Douglas P. Wiens

Bibliographic record

VenueEnvironmetrics · 2004
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEconomics, Econometrics and Finance
TopicSpatial and Panel Data Analysis
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Alberta
FundersNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of CanadaUniversity of Victoria
KeywordsRobustness (evolution)MinimaxCovarianceEstimatorStatisticsMathematicsComputer scienceMean squared errorObservational errorVariance (accounting)Mathematical optimizationEconometrics

Abstract

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We develop and test robust methods for estimation and for prediction in spatial studies. We assume that a stochastic process is measured, with error, at various locations. The variance/covariance structures of this process and of the measurement errors are only approximately known; in the face of these uncertainties one is to do robust estimation and prediction. We obtain a minimax linear predictor, in which mean squared error loss is first maximized over neighbourhoods quantifying the various sources of model uncertainty, and then minimized over the coefficients of the predictor subject to a constraint of unbiasedness. Robustifications of these methods are then introduced. These are based on generalized M-estimators, and are robust against contaminated error distributions. In a simulation study the procedures afford a substantial level of robustness when the model inadequacies are present, while being almost as efficient as more classical methods otherwise. Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.072
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.276
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Methods · Consensus signal: Methods
Teacher disagreement score0.072
Threshold uncertainty score0.382

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0720.276
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0020.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0040.003
Bibliometrics0.0040.003
Science and technology studies0.0010.007
Scholarly communication0.0040.006
Open science0.0040.007
Research integrity0.0040.005
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0030.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.062
GPT teacher head0.227
Teacher spread0.165 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreMethods

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2004
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