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Record W2972563957 · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1909.05018

Design-adherent estimators for network surveys

2019· preprint· en· W2972563957 on OpenAlexaff
Steve Thompson

Bibliographic record

VenuearXiv (Cornell University) · 2019
Typepreprint
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicHIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk
Canadian institutionsSimon Fraser University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsResamplingEstimatorSampling designStatisticsSample (material)PopulationSampling (signal processing)EstimationEconometricsComputer scienceSample size determinationMathematicsDemographyEngineeringTelecommunications

Abstract

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Network surveys of key populations at risk for HIV are an essential part of the effort to understand how the epidemic spreads and how it can be prevented. Estimation of population values from the sample data has been probematical, however, because the link-tracing of the network surveys includes different people in the sample with unequal probabilities, and these inclusion probabilities have to be estimated accurately to avoid large biases in survey estimates. A new approach to estimation is introduced here, based on resampling the sample network many times using a design that adheres to main features of the design used in the field. These features include network link tracing, branching, and without-replacement sampling. The frequency that a person is included in the resamples is used to estimate the inclusion probability for each person in the original sample, and these estimates of inclusion probabilities are used in an unequal-probability estimator. In simulations using a population of drug users, sex workers, and their partners for which the actual values of population characteristics are known, the design-adherent estimation approach increases the accuracy of estimates of population quantities, largely by eliminating most of the biases.

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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)0.059
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.230
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: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Methods · Consensus signal: Methods
Teacher disagreement score0.059
Threshold uncertainty score0.313

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0590.230
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0020.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0020.002
Bibliometrics0.0030.002
Science and technology studies0.0010.002
Scholarly communication0.0020.004
Open science0.0040.005
Research integrity0.0030.004
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0040.001

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 head0.199
GPT teacher head0.273
Teacher spread0.074 · 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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