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Structured Estimation of Heterogeneous Time Series

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Zachary F. Fisher, Younghoon Kim, Vladas Pipiras, Christopher Crawford, Daniel J. Petrie, Michael D. Hunter, Charles F. Geier

Methodology · Submitted 15 Nov 2023

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The authors' main claim The current work extends the multi-VAR framework to include new adaptive weighting schemes that greatly improve estimation performance.

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CitationCharles F. Geier, Christopher Crawford, Daniel J. Petrie, Michael D. Hunter, Vladas Pipiras, Younghoon Kim, Zachary F. Fisher. "Structured Estimation of Heterogeneous Time Series." arXiv:2311.08658 (2023). https://pith.science/paper/UPI73V77
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How best to model structurally heterogeneous processes is a foundational question in the social, health and behavioral sciences. Recently, Fisher et al., (2022) introduced the multi-VAR approach for simultaneously estimating multiple-subject multivariate time series characterized by common and individualizing features using penalized estimation. This approach differs from many popular modeling approaches for multiple-subject time series in that qualitative and quantitative differences in a large number of individual dynamics are well-accommodated. The current work extends the multi-VAR framework to include new adaptive weighting schemes that greatly improve estimation performance. In a small set of simulation studies we compare adaptive multi-VAR with these new penalty weights to common alternative estimators in terms of path recovery and bias. Furthermore, we provide toy examples and code demonstrating the utility of multi-VAR under different heterogeneity regimes using the multivar package for R (Fisher, 2022).

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How best to model structurally heterogeneous processes is a foundational question in the social, health and behavioral sciences. Recently, Fisher et al., (2022) introduced the multi-VAR approach for simultaneously estimating multiple-subject multivariate time series characterized by common and individualizing features using penalized estimation. This approach differs from many popular modeling approaches for multiple-subject time series in that qualitative and quantitative differences in a large number of individual dynamics are well-accommodated. The current work extends the multi-VAR framework to include new adaptive weighting schemes that greatly improve estimation performance. In a small set of simulation studies we compare adaptive multi-VAR with these new penalty weights to common alternative estimators in terms of path recovery and bias. Furthermore, we provide toy examples and code demonstrating the utility of multi-VAR under different heterogeneity regimes using the multivar package for R (Fisher, 2022).

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