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Changing assignment weights with time-based confounders

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For example, imagine a fantasy football site is considering displaying advanced player statistics. A ramp-up strategy may mitigate the risk of upsetting the site’s loyal users who perhaps have strong preferences for the current statistics that are shown. One reason to do ramp-up is to mitigate the risk of never before seen arms.

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Estimating the prevalence of rare events — theory and practice

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But importance sampling in statistics is a variance reduction technique to improve the inference of the rate of rare events, and it seems natural to apply it to our prevalence estimation problem. Statistical Science. Statistics in Biopharmaceutical Research, 2010. [4] High Risk 10% 5% 33.3% How Many Strata?

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