skip to main content
US FlagAn official website of the United States government
dot gov icon
Official websites use .gov
A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States.
https lock icon
Secure .gov websites use HTTPS
A lock ( lock ) or https:// means you've safely connected to the .gov website. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites.


Title: Optimal allocation of sample size for randomization-based inference from 2 K factorial designs
Abstract Optimizing the allocation of units into treatment groups can help researchers improve the precision of causal estimators and decrease costs when running factorial experiments. However, existing optimal allocation results typically assume a super-population model and that the outcome data come from a known family of distributions. Instead, we focus on randomization-based causal inference for the finite-population setting, which does not require model specifications for the data or sampling assumptions. We propose exact theoretical solutions for optimal allocation in 2 K {2}^{K}factorial experiments under complete randomization with A-, D-, and E-optimality criteria. We then extend this work to factorial designs with block randomization. We also derive results for optimal allocations when using cost-based constraints. To connect our theory to practice, we provide convenient integer-constrained programming solutions using a greedy optimization approach to find integer optimal allocation solutions for both complete and block randomizations. The proposed methods are demonstrated using two real-life factorial experiments conducted by social scientists.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
2217522
PAR ID:
10536962
Author(s) / Creator(s):
; ; ;
Publisher / Repository:
Journal of Causal Inference
Date Published:
Journal Name:
Journal of Causal Inference
Volume:
12
Issue:
1
ISSN:
2193-3685
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
More Like this
  1. Abstract We study the family of irreducible modules for quantum affine 𝔰 𝔩 n + 1 {\mathfrak{sl}_{n+1}}whose Drinfeld polynomials are supported on just one node of the Dynkin diagram. We identify all the prime modules in this family and prove a unique factorization theorem. The Drinfeld polynomials of the prime modules encode information coming from the points of reducibility of tensor products of the fundamental modules associated to A m {A_{m}}with m n {m\leq n}. These prime modules are a special class of the snake modules studied by Mukhin and Young. We relate our modules to the work of Hernandez and Leclerc and define generalizations of the category 𝒞 - {\mathscr{C}^{-}}. This leads naturally to the notion of an inflation of the corresponding Grothendieck ring. In the last section we show that the tensor product of a (higher order) Kirillov–Reshetikhin module with its dual always contains an imaginary module in its Jordan–Hölder series and give an explicit formula for its Drinfeld polynomial. Together with the results of [D. Hernandez and B. Leclerc,A cluster algebra approach toq-characters of Kirillov–Reshetikhin modules,J. Eur. Math. Soc. (JEMS) 18 2016, 5, 1113–1159] this gives examples of a product of cluster variables which are not in the span of cluster monomials. We also discuss the connection of our work with the examples arising from the work of [E. Lapid and A. Mínguez,Geometric conditions for \square-irreducibility of certain representations of the general linear group over a non-archimedean local field,Adv. Math. 339 2018, 113–190]. Finally, we use our methods to give a family of imaginary modules in type D 4 {D_{4}}which do not arise from an embedding of A r {A_{r}}with r 3 {r\leq 3}in D 4 {D_{4}}. 
    more » « less
  2. Abstract In this study, the solution of the Neumann problem associated with the CR Yamabe operator on a subset Ω \Omegaof the CR manifold S 3 {{\mathbb{S}}}^{3}bounded by the Clifford torus Σ \Sigmais discussed. The Yamabe-type problem of finding a contact form on Ω \Omegawhich has zero Tanaka-Webster scalar curvature and for which Σ \Sigmahas a constant p p-mean curvature is also discussed. 
    more » « less
  3. Abstract We prove that the Tate conjecture for divisors is “generically true” for mod p \operatorname{mod}preductions of complex projective varieties with h 2 , 0 = 1 h^{2,0}=1, under a mild assumption on moduli.By refining this general result, we establish a new case of the BSD conjecture over global function fields, and the Tate conjecture for a class of general type surfaces of geometric genus 1. 
    more » « less
  4. Abstract We show that the affine vertex superalgebra V k ( o s p 1 | 2 n ) V^{k}(\mathfrak{osp}_{1|2n})at generic level 𝑘 embeds in the equivariant 𝒲-algebra of s p 2 n \mathfrak{sp}_{2n}times 4 n 4nfree fermions.This has two corollaries:(1) it provides a new proof that, for generic 𝑘, the coset Com ( V k ( s p 2 n ) , V k ( o s p 1 | 2 n ) ) \operatorname{Com}(V^{k}(\mathfrak{sp}_{2n}),V^{k}(\mathfrak{osp}_{1|2n}))is isomorphic to W ( s p 2 n ) \mathcal{W}^{\ell}(\mathfrak{sp}_{2n})for = ( n + 1 ) + ( k + n + 1 ) / ( 2 k + 2 n + 1 ) \ell=-(n+1)+(k+n+1)/(2k+2n+1), and(2) we obtain the decomposition of ordinary V k ( o s p 1 | 2 n ) V^{k}(\mathfrak{osp}_{1|2n})-modules into V k ( s p 2 n ) W ( s p 2 n ) V^{k}(\mathfrak{sp}_{2n})\otimes\mathcal{W}^{\ell}(\mathfrak{sp}_{2n})-modules.Next, if 𝑘 is an admissible level and ℓ is a non-degenerate admissible level for s p 2 n \mathfrak{sp}_{2n}, we show that the simple algebra L k ( o s p 1 | 2 n ) L_{k}(\mathfrak{osp}_{1|2n})is an extension of the simple subalgebra L k ( s p 2 n ) W ( s p 2 n ) L_{k}(\mathfrak{sp}_{2n})\otimes{\mathcal{W}}_{\ell}(\mathfrak{sp}_{2n}).Using the theory of vertex superalgebra extensions, we prove that the category of ordinary L k ( o s p 1 | 2 n ) L_{k}(\mathfrak{osp}_{1|2n})-modules is a semisimple, rigid vertex tensor supercategory with only finitely many inequivalent simple objects.It is equivalent to a certain subcategory of W ( s p 2 n ) \mathcal{W}_{\ell}(\mathfrak{sp}_{2n})-modules.A similar result also holds for the category of Ramond twisted modules.Due to a recent theorem of Robert McRae, we get as a corollary that categories of ordinary L k ( s p 2 n ) L_{k}(\mathfrak{sp}_{2n})-modules are rigid. 
    more » « less
  5. Abstract Let 𝜋 and π \pi^{\prime}be cuspidal automorphic representations of GL ( n ) \mathrm{GL}(n)and GL ( n ) \mathrm{GL}(n^{\prime})with unitary central characters.We establish a new zero-free region for all GL ( 1 ) \mathrm{GL}(1)-twists of the Rankin–Selberg 𝐿-function L ( s , π × π ) L(s,\pi\times\pi^{\prime}), generalizing Siegel’s celebrated work on Dirichlet 𝐿-functions.As an application, we prove the first unconditional Siegel–Walfisz theorem for the Dirichlet coefficients of L ( s , π × π ) / L ( s , π × π ) -L^{\prime}(s,\pi\times\pi^{\prime})/L(s,\pi\times\pi^{\prime}).Also, for n 8 n\leq 8, we extend the region of holomorphy and nonvanishing for the twisted symmetric power 𝐿-functions L ( s , π , Sym n χ ) L(s,\pi,\mathrm{Sym}^{n}\otimes\chi)of any cuspidal automorphic representation of GL ( 2 ) \mathrm{GL}(2). 
    more » « less