Functional regression with intensively measured longitudinal outcomes: a new lens through data partitioning
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract Modern longitudinal data from wearable devices consist of biological signals at high‐frequency time points. Distributed statistical methods have emerged as a powerful tool to overcome the computational burden of estimation and inference with large data, but methodology for distributed functional regression remains limited. We propose a distributed estimation and inference procedure that efficiently estimates both functional and scalar parameters with intensively measured longitudinal outcomes. The procedure overcomes computational difficulties through a scalable divide‐and‐conquer algorithm that partitions the outcomes into smaller sets. We circumvent traditional basis selection problems by analyzing data using quadratic inference functions in smaller subsets such that the basis functions have a low dimension. To address the challenges of combining estimates from dependent subsets, we propose a statistically efficient one‐step estimator derived from a constrained generalized method of moments objective function with a smoothing penalty. We show theoretically and numerically that the proposed estimator is as statistically efficient as non‐distributed alternative approaches and more efficient computationally. We demonstrate the practicality of our approach with the analysis of accelerometer data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.010 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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