Faster (and Still Pretty Simple) Unbiased Estimators for Network (Un)reliability

Author(s):  
David R. Karger
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2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 113-129
Author(s):  
Hamza M. Ruzayqat ◽  
Ajay Jasra

AbstractIn the following article, we consider the non-linear filtering problem in continuous time and in particular the solution to Zakai’s equation or the normalizing constant. We develop a methodology to produce finite variance, almost surely unbiased estimators of the solution to Zakai’s equation. That is, given access to only a first-order discretization of solution to the Zakai equation, we present a method which can remove this discretization bias. The approach, under assumptions, is proved to have finite variance and is numerically compared to using a particular multilevel Monte Carlo method.


2013 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 135-154 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter M. Aronow ◽  
Joel A. Middleton

AbstractWe derive a class of design-based estimators for the average treatment effect that are unbiased whenever the treatment assignment process is known. We generalize these estimators to include unbiased covariate adjustment using any model for outcomes that the analyst chooses. We then provide expressions and conservative estimators for the variance of the proposed estimators.


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