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Gerda Claeskens

KU Leuven - Department of Economics

Leuven, B-3000

Belgium

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1.

Unraveling the Predictive Power of Telematics Data in Car Insurance Pricing

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 18 Nov 2016 Last Revised: 07 Feb 2018
KU Leuven, KU LeuvenUniversity of Amsterdam and KU Leuven - Department of Economics
Downloads 1,222 (42,544)
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Pay-as-you-drive insurance, Usage-based insurance, Risk classification, Generalized additive models, Compositional predictors, Structural zeros

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Time to Default in Credit Scoring Using Survival Analysis: A Benchmark Study

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 22 Sep 2015
Lore Dirick, Gerda Claeskens and Bart Baesens
KU Leuven - Faculty of Business and Economics (FEB), KU Leuven - Department of Economics and KU Leuven - Faculty of Business and Economics (FEB)
Downloads 781 (79,525)
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Benchmarking; Credit risk modeling; Competing risks; Mixture cure model; Survival analysis

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Variable Selection for Logistic Regression Using a Prediction Focussed Information Criterion

Number of pages: 22 Posted: 23 Jan 2006
Gerda Claeskens, Christophe Croux and Johan Van Kerckhoven
KU Leuven - Department of Economics, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) - European Center for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES) and Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KUL)
Downloads 451 (159,122)
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Error rate, Focussed information criterion, Forward selection, Logistic regression, Model selection, Risk measures

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On Model Selection and Model Misspecification in Causal Inference

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 23 Nov 2010
Stijn Vansteelandt, Maarten Bekaert and Gerda Claeskens
Ghent University.Faculty of Scoiences, Ghent University.Faculty of Sciences. Department of Applied Mathematics and Computer Sciences and KU Leuven - Department of Economics
Downloads 309 (244,299)
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Causal inference, Confounder selection, Double robustness, Influential weights, Model selection, Model uncertainty, Propensity score

The Forecast Combination Puzzle: A Simple Theoretical Explanation

Number of pages: 18 Posted: 23 Oct 2013 Last Revised: 01 Sep 2014
Gerda Claeskens, J.R. Magnus, Andrey L. Vasnev and Wendun Wang
KU Leuven - Department of Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, School of Business and Economics, University of Sydney and Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR)
Downloads 121 (594,723)
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forecast combination, optimal weights, model selection

The Forecast Combination Puzzle: A Simple Theoretical Explanation

Number of pages: 22 Posted: 05 Mar 2016
Gerda Claeskens, J.R. Magnus, Andrey L. Vasnev and Wendun Wang
KU Leuven - Department of Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, School of Business and Economics, University of Sydney and Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Department of Econometrics
Downloads 105 (668,983)
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forecast combination, optimal weights

The Forecast Combination Puzzle: A Simple Theoretical Explanation

Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper 14-127/III
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 20 Sep 2014
Gerda Claeskens, J.R. Magnus, Andrey L. Vasnev and Wendun Wang
KU Leuven - Department of Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, School of Business and Economics, University of Sydney and Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR)
Downloads 75 (848,302)
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forecast combination, optimal weights, model selection

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Focused Model Selection in Quantile Regression

KU Leuven - Faculty of Economics and Business Working Paper No. KBI 1301
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 06 Apr 2013
Peter Behl, Gerda Claeskens and Holger Dette
Ruhr University of Bochum, KU Leuven - Department of Economics and Ruhr University of Bochum - Faculty of Mathematics
Downloads 262 (290,667)

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quantile regression, model selection focused information criterion

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Nonparametric Small Area Estimation Using Penalized Spline Regression

Number of pages: 18 Posted: 12 Jan 2006
Iowa State University, KU Leuven - Department of Economics, University of Perugia, Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin) and Colorado State University
Downloads 246 (310,057)
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Mixed model, Best linear unbiased prediction, Bootstrap inference, Natural resource survey

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Multivariate Mixtures of Erlangs for Density Estimation Under Censoring and Truncation

Lifetime Data Analysis, 2016, 22(3), 429-455.
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 07 Jan 2015 Last Revised: 17 May 2017
KU Leuven, KU LeuvenUniversity of Amsterdam and KU Leuven - Department of Economics
Downloads 215 (354,560)
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Multivariate Erlang mixtures with a common scale parameter, Density estimation, Censored data, Truncated data, Expectation-maximization algorithm, Maximum likelihood.

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An Asymptotic Theory for Model Selection Inference in General Semiparametric Problems

Number of pages: 17 Posted: 15 Dec 2005
Gerda Claeskens and Raymond Carroll
KU Leuven - Department of Economics and Texas A&M University - Department of Statistics
Downloads 197 (386,064)
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Akaike information criterion, Bayes information criterion, Efficient semi-parametric estimation, Frequentist model averaging, Model averaging, Model selection, Profile likelihood, Semiparametric model

Goodness-of-Fit Tests for the Frailty Distribution in Proportional Hazards Models with Shared Frailty

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 23 Oct 2012
Candida Geerdens, Gerda Claeskens and Paul Janssen
Hasselt University, KU Leuven - Department of Economics and Hasselt University. Center for Statistics
Downloads 136 (538,342)

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Gamma distribution, Goodness-of-fit, Frailty model, Order selection test, Orthogonal polynomials

Goodness-of-Fit Tests for the Frailty Distribution in Proportional Hazards Models with Shared Frailty

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 22 Oct 2012
Candida Geerdens, Gerda Claeskens and Paul Janssens
Hasselt University, KU Leuven - Department of Economics and affiliation not provided to SSRN
Downloads 58 (996,491)

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gamma distribution, goodness-of-fit, frailty model, order selection test, orthogonal polynomials

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Minimum Mean Squared Error Model Averaging in Likelihood Models

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 04 Sep 2015
Ali Charkhi, Gerda Claeskens and Bruce Hansen
KU Leuven - Faculty of Business and Economics (FEB), KU Leuven - Department of Economics and University of Wisconsin-Madison - Department of Economics
Downloads 170 (442,467)
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Frequentist model averaging, mean squared error, weight choice, local misspecification, likelihood regression

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Model-Assisted Estimation for Complex Surveys Using Penalized Splines

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 12 Jan 2006
F. J. Breidt, Gerda Claeskens and J. D. Opsomer
Colorado State University, KU Leuven - Department of Economics and Iowa State University
Downloads 166 (451,954)

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Calibration, Generalized regression estimation, Nonparametric regression, Restricted maximum likelihood

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Goodness-of-Fit Tests in Mixed Models

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 09 Apr 2009
Gerda Claeskens and Jeffrey D. Hart
KU Leuven - Department of Economics and affiliation not provided to SSRN
Downloads 93 (732,131)

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mixed model, hypothesis test, nonparametric test, minimum distance, orderselection

Goodness-of-Fit Tests in Mixed Models

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 08 Dec 2009
Gerda Claeskens and Jeffrey D. Hart
KU Leuven - Department of Economics and affiliation not provided to SSRN
Downloads 72 (871,518)

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mixed model, hypothesis test, nonparametric test, minimum distance, order selection

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S-Estimation for Penalized Regression Splines

Number of pages: 22 Posted: 27 Mar 2009
Catholic University of Leuven (KUL). Faculty of Business and Economics, KU Leuven - Faculty of Business and Economics (FEB), KU Leuven - Department of Economics and University of British Columbia. Department of Statistics
Downloads 165 (454,356)

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M-estimator, Penalized least squares method, Penalized regression

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S-Estimation and a Robust Conditional Akaike Information Criterion for Linear Mixed Models

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 21 Dec 2011
Kukatharmini Tharmaratnam and Gerda Claeskens
Catholic University of Leuven (KUL). Faculty of Business and Economics and KU Leuven - Department of Economics
Downloads 158 (472,207)

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Akaike information criterion, conditional likelihood, effective degrees of freedom, mixed model, penalized regression spline, S-estimation

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An Information Criterion for Variable Selection in Support Vector Machines

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 19 Feb 2008
Gerda Claeskens, Christophe Croux and Johan Van Kerckhoven
KU Leuven - Department of Economics, KU Leuven - Faculty of Business and Economics (FEB) and Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KUL)
Downloads 146 (508,926)
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Classification, Criteria, Error rate, Information, Information criterion, IT, Model, Models, Performance, Problems, Selection, Simulation, Space, Studies, Supervised classification, Support vector machine, Variable selection

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An Akaike Information Criterion for Multiple Event Mixture Cure Models

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 13 Sep 2014
Lore Dirick, Gerda Claeskens and Bart Baesens
KU Leuven - Faculty of Business and Economics (FEB), KU Leuven - Department of Economics and KU Leuven - Faculty of Business and Economics (FEB)
Downloads 136 (537,489)
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Akaike information criterion, Competing risks, EM-algorithm, Mixture cure model, Model selection.

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Copula Directed Acyclic Graphs

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 04 Sep 2015
Eugen Pircalabelu, Gerda Claeskens and Irene Gijbels
KU Leuven - Faculty of Business and Economics (FBE), KU Leuven - Department of Economics and Catholic University of Louvain (UCL) - School of Statistics
Downloads 126 (576,708)
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Directed acyclic graph, Copula, C-vine, D-vine, Model selection

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Variable Selection with Incomplete Covariate Data

Number of pages: 22 Posted: 14 Feb 2008
Gerda Claeskens and Fabrizio Consentino
KU Leuven - Department of Economics and Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. KUL. Faculty of Business and Economics
Downloads 122 (592,433)
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AIC, Akaike's information criterion, Criteria, Data, Information, Information criterion, Methods, Model, Model selection, Problems, Selection, Simulation, Studies, Variable selection, Work

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Lack-of-Fit Tests in Semiparametric Mixed Models

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 03 Mar 2008
Gerda Claeskens, Huijuan Ding and Maarten Jansen
KU Leuven - Department of Economics, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. KUL. Faculty of Business and Economics and affiliation not provided to SSRN
Downloads 121 (596,393)
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Lack-off-fittest; Likelihood ratio test; Mixed models; One-sided test; Penalization; Restricted maximum likelihood; Variance components; Wavel; Asymptotic distribution; Distribution; Likelihood; Tests; Models; Model; Random effects; Effects; Studies; Lack-of-fit; Mixed model; Framework; Functions; D

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A Multiresolution Approach to Time Warping Achieved by a Bayesian Prior-Posterior Transfer Fitting Strategy

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 10 Apr 2009
Leen Slaets, Gerda Claeskens and Bernard Silverman
Catholic University of Leuven (KULeuven). Faculty of Business and Economics, KU Leuven - Department of Economics and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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Bayesian Inference, Functional data analysis, Markov chain Monte Carlo sampling,Bayesian Inference, Functional data analysis, Markov chain Monte Carlo sampling,

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Simultaneous Confidence Bands for Penalized Spline Estimators

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 18 Jan 2010
Tatyana Krivobokova, Gerda Claeskens and T. Kneib
KU Leuven - Department of Applied Economics, KU Leuven - Department of Economics and University of Göttingen
Downloads 114 (621,896)
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Bayesian penalized splines, B-splines, Confidence band, Mixed model, Penalization

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Mining Telecommunication Networks to Enhance Customer Lifetime Predictions

Number of pages: 14 Posted: 12 Mar 2014
Backiel Aimée, Bart Baesens and Gerda Claeskens
KU Leuven - Faculty of Business and Economics (FEB), KU Leuven - Faculty of Business and Economics (FEB) and KU Leuven - Department of Economics
Downloads 111 (635,507)
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Multivariate Functional Halfspace Depth

KU Leuven - Faculty of Business and Economics Working Paper KBI 1229
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 06 Apr 2013
Gerda Claeskens, Mia Hubert, Leen Slaets and Kaveh Vakili
KU Leuven - Department of Economics, KU Leuven - Department of Mathematics, Catholic University of Leuven (KULeuven). Faculty of Business and Economics and KU Leuven - Department of Mathematics
Downloads 110 (640,165)

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statistical depth, functional data, time warping, multivariate data

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Nonparametric Estimation of Mean and Dispersion Functions in Extended Generalized Linear Models

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 24 Oct 2008
Irene Gijbels, Ilaria Prosdocimi and Gerda Claeskens
Catholic University of Louvain (UCL) - School of Statistics, KU Leuven - Department of Mathematics and KU Leuven - Department of Economics
Downloads 110 (640,165)

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Double exponential family, Extended Quasi-Likelihood, Modeling

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Focused Estimation and Model Averaging for High-Dimensional Data, An Overview

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 30 Jan 2011
Gerda Claeskens
KU Leuven - Department of Economics
Downloads 109 (645,052)

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variable selection, focused information criterion, penalized estimation, lasso, model averaging, efficiency, prediction loss

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A Comparison of Robust Versions of the AIC Based on M, S and MM-Estimators

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 28 Sep 2010
Kukatharmini Tharmaratnam and Gerda Claeskens
Catholic University of Leuven (KUL). Faculty of Business and Economics and KU Leuven - Department of Economics
Downloads 100 (689,572)

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Akaike's information criterion, robust estimation, variable selection

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A Focused Information Criterion for Graphical Models in fMRI Connectivity with High-Dimensional Data

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 07 Nov 2015
KU Leuven - Faculty of Business and Economics (FBE), KU Leuven - Department of Economics, VU University Amsterdam and University of Amsterdam - Department of Psychological Methods
Downloads 97 (704,534)

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fMRI connectivity, Focused information criterion, Model selection, Gaussian graphical model, Penalization, High-dimensional data

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Testing for Lack of Fit in Inverse Regression - With Applications to Photonic Imaging

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 14 Feb 2008
Nicolai Bissantz, Gerda Claeskens, Hajo Holzmann and Axel Munk
Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum. Lehrstuhl fuer Stochastik, KU Leuven - Department of Economics, Georg-August-Universitaet Goettingen. Institut fuer Mathematik and Georg-August-Universitaet. Institut fuer Mathematische Stochastik
Downloads 90 (747,755)

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Regression, Problems, Lack-of-fit, Applications

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Mixed Scale Joint Graphical Lasso

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 10 May 2016
Eugen Pircalabelu, Gerda Claeskens and Lourens Waldorp
KU Leuven - Faculty of Business and Economics (FBE), KU Leuven - Department of Economics and University of Amsterdam - Department of Psychological Methods
Downloads 89 (747,755)
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Phase and Amplitude-Based Clustering for Functional Data

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 27 Jan 2011
Gerda Claeskens, Mia Hubert and Leen Slaets
KU Leuven - Department of Economics, KU Leuven - Department of Mathematics and Catholic University of Leuven (KULeuven). Faculty of Business and Economics
Downloads 85 (771,553)
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Functional data, clustering, phase variation, amplitude variation, warping

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Focused Model Selection for Social Networks

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 29 Mar 2016
Eugen Pircalabelu and Gerda Claeskens
KU Leuven - Faculty of Business and Economics (FBE) and KU Leuven - Department of Economics
Downloads 82 (790,029)

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Variable selection, Social network, Focused information criterion, Exponential random graphs, Network based models

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Asymptotic Post-Selection Inference for Akaike's Information Criterion

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 08 May 2018
Ali Charkhi and Gerda Claeskens
KU Leuven - Faculty of Business and Economics (FEB) and KU Leuven - Department of Economics
Downloads 79 (809,932)

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Akaike information criterion, confidence region, likelihood model, model selection, post-selection inference

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Structure Learning Using a Focused Information Criterion in Graphical Models

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 23 Oct 2012
Eugen Pircalabelu, Gerda Claeskens and Lourens Waldorp
KU Leuven - Faculty of Business and Economics (FBE), KU Leuven - Department of Economics and University of Amsterdam - Department of Psychological Methods
Downloads 79 (809,932)
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Focused information criterion, model selection, directed acyclic graph, Gaussian graphical model, ancestral graph

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Warping Functional Data in R and C via a Bayesian Multiresolution Approach

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 28 Sep 2010
Leen Slaets, Gerda Claeskens and Bernard Silverman
Catholic University of Leuven (KULeuven). Faculty of Business and Economics, KU Leuven - Department of Economics and University of Oxford
Downloads 79 (809,932)
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functional data, time warping, curve registration, adaptive MCMC, C, R

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A High-Dimensional Focused Information Criterion

KU Leuven, Faculty of Economics and Business, KBI_1706
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 29 May 2017
Thomas Gueuning and Gerda Claeskens
KU Leuven - Faculty of Business and Economics (FEB) and KU Leuven - Department of Economics
Downloads 78 (816,709)
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Desparsified estimator; Focused information criterion; High-dimensional data; Variable selection.

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Copula Based Flexible Modeling of Associations between Clustered Event Times

Number of pages: 21 Posted: 04 Sep 2015
Candida Geerdens, Gerda Claeskens and Paul Janssen
Hasselt University, KU Leuven - Department of Economics and Hasselt University. Center for Statistics
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clustered data, copulas, model selection, multivariate data, right-censoring, survival data.

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Confidence Intervals for High-Dimensional Partially Linear Single-Index Models

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 27 Apr 2016
Thomas Gueuning and Gerda Claeskens
KU Leuven - Faculty of Business and Economics (FEB) and KU Leuven - Department of Economics
Downloads 72 (860,052)

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high-dimensional data, single-index model, regularized estimation, sparsity, asymptotic normality, confidence interval

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Multivariate Mixtures of Erlangs for Density Estimation Under Censoring and Truncation: Additional Examples

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 12 Apr 2015
KU Leuven, KU LeuvenUniversity of Amsterdam and KU Leuven - Department of Economics
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Constructing Graphical Models via the Focused Information Criterion

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 03 Apr 2014
Gerda Claeskens, Eugen Pircalabelu and Lourens Waldorp
KU Leuven - Department of Economics, KU Leuven - Faculty of Business and Economics (FBE) and University of Amsterdam - Department of Psychological Methods
Downloads 67 (899,324)
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Order Selection Tests with Multiply-Imputed Data

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 06 Jul 2009
Fabrizio Consentino and Gerda Claeskens
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. KUL. Faculty of Business and Economics and KU Leuven - Department of Economics
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Akaike information criterion, hypothesis test, multiple imputation, lack-of-fit test, missing data, omnibus test, order selection

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On the Performance of Isotropic and Hyperbolic Wavelet Estimators

KU Leuven - Faculty of Economics and Business Working Paper No. KBI 1302
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 06 Apr 2013
Florent Autin, Gerda Claeskens and Jean-Marc Freyermuth
Aix-Marseille University. L.A.T.P., KU Leuven - Department of Economics and KU Leuven. Faculty of Business and Economics (FBE)
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Anisotropy, Besov spaces, minimax and maxiset approaches, linear and non linear methods, thresholding rules, multidimensional wavelet basis

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Asymptotic Performance of Projection Estimators in Standard and Hyperbolic Wavelet Bases

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 04 Sep 2015
Florent Autin, Gerda Claeskens and Jean-Marc Freyermuth
Aix-Marseille University. L.A.T.P., KU Leuven - Department of Economics and KU Leuven. Faculty of Business and Economics (FBE)
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Anisotropy, Besov spaces, information pooling, linear and non linear methods, multivariate wavelet basis, thresholding

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Hyperbolic Wavelet Thresholding Methods and the Curse of Dimensionality through the Maxiset Approach

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 23 Oct 2012
Florent Autin, Gerda Claeskens and Jean-Marc Freyermuth
Aix-Marseille University. L.A.T.P., KU Leuven - Department of Economics and KU Leuven. Faculty of Business and Economics (FBE)
Downloads 39 (1,196,171)
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anisotropy, hyperbolic wavelet basis, information pooling, maxiset, wavelet thresholding, atomic dimension

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Statistical Model Choice

Posted: 04 Sep 2015 Last Revised: 26 Feb 2016
Gerda Claeskens
KU Leuven - Department of Economics

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Model selection, Variable selection, Information criteria, Model averaging

Statistical Model Choice

Annual Review of Statistics and Its Application, Vol. 3, Issue 1, pp. 233-256, 2016
Posted: 03 Jun 2016
Gerda Claeskens
KU Leuven - Department of Economics

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