Result: Data wrangling, computational burden, automation, robustness and accuracy in ecological inference forecasting of R×C tables

Title:
Data wrangling, computational burden, automation, robustness and accuracy in ecological inference forecasting of R×C tables
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Pavía Miralles, José Manuel Romero Villafranca, Rafael 2023 Data Wrangling, Computational Burden, Automation, Robustness and Accuracy in Ecological Inference Forecasting of R×C Tables Sort-Statistics And Operations Research Transactions 47 1 151 186
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Publisher Information:
Institut d'Estadística de Catalunya, 2023.
Publication Year:
2023
Document Type:
Academic journal Article
File Description:
application/pdf; application/zip
Language:
English
DOI:
10.57645/20.8080.02.4
Rights:
CC BY NC ND
Accession Number:
edsair.dedup.wf.002..21856b9d4c6218b014e6e7af97bf53af
Database:
OpenAIRE

Further Information

This paper assesses the two current major alternatives for ecological inference, based on a multinomial-Dirichlet Bayesian model and on mathematical programming. Their performance is evaluated in a database made up of almost 2000 real datasets for which the actual cross-distributions are known. The analysis reveals both approaches as complementarity, each one of them performing better in a different area of the simplex space, although with Bayesian solutions deteriorating when the amount of information is scarce. After offering some guidelines regarding the appropriate contexts for employing each one of the algorithms, we conclude with some ideas for exploiting their complementarities.