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# Bias-aware model selection for machine learning of doubly robust functionals

@inproceedings{Cui2019BiasawareMS,
title={Bias-aware model selection for machine learning of doubly robust functionals},
author={Yifan Cui and Eric J. Tchetgen Tchetgen},
year={2019}
}
• Published 5 November 2019
• Mathematics, Economics
While model selection is a well-studied topic in parametric and nonparametric regression or density estimation, model selection of possibly high dimensional nuisance parameters in semiparametric problems is far less developed. In this paper, we propose a new model selection framework for making inferences about a finite dimensional functional defined on a semiparametric model, when the latter admits a doubly robust estimating function. The class of such doubly robust functionals is quite large…

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