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ArticleJournal of the American Statistical Association2020

Improved small-sample estimation of nonlinear cross-validated prediction metrics.

David Benkeser, Maya Petersen, Mark J van der Laan

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Article in Journal of the American Statistical Association, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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11 citing papers in PubMed.

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  4. Cross-validation: what does it estimate and how well does it do it?Journal of the American Statistical Association · 2024
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  7. A two-stage super learner for healthcare expenditures.Health services & outcomes research methodology · 2022
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3 authors.

David BenkeserDepartment of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Emory University.
Maya PetersenGraduate Group in Biostatistics, University of California, Berkeley.
Mark J van der LaanGraduate Group in Biostatistics, University of California, Berkeley.

Funding

SDMC: HIV Vaccine Trials NetworkUM1AI068635 · NIAID · FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER · PI Peter B. Gilbert, Yunda Huang · 2011 to 2026
$385.9M
Targeted Learning using adaptive designs for HIV Epidemic control in East AfricaR01AI074345 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY · PI PETERSEN, MAYA LIV, VANDERLAAN, MARK J · 2007 to 2023
$6.6M
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI074345NIAID NIH HHS UM1 AI068635
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

When predicting an outcome is the scientific goal, one must decide on a metric by which to evaluate the quality of predictions. We consider the problem of measuring the performance of a prediction algorithm with the same data that were used to train the algorithm. Typical approaches involve bootstrapping or cross-validation. However, we demonstrate that bootstrap-based approaches often fail and standard cross-validation estimators may perform poorly. We provide a general study of cross-validation-based estimators that highlights the source of this poor performance, and propose an alternative framework for estimation using techniques from the efficiency theory literature. We provide a theorem establishing the weak convergence of our estimators. The general theorem is applied in detail to two specific examples and we discuss possible extensions to other parameters of interest. For the two explicit examples that we consider, our estimators demonstrate remarkable finite-sample improvements over standard approaches.

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AUCcross-validationestimating equationsmachine learningpredictiontargeted minimum loss-based estimation

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PMID33716360
PMCPMC7954141

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