The regression discontinuity model has recently become a commonly applied framework for empirical work in economics. Hahn, Todd, and Van der Klaauw (2001) provide a formal development of the identification of a treatment effect in this framework and also note the potential bias problems in its estimation. This bias difficulty is the result of a particular feature of the regression discontinuity...

This work shows that the cryptanalysis of the shrinking generator requires fewer intercepted bits than that indicated by the linear complexity. Indeed, whereas the linear complexity of shrunken sequences is between A·2(S−2) and A·2(S−1), we claim that the initial states of both component registers are easily computed with less than A · S shrunken bits. Such a result is proven thanks to the defi...

We propose a fuser that projects diier-ent function estimators in diierent regions of the input space based on the lower envelope of the error curves of the individual estimators. This fuser is shown to be optimal among projective fusers and also to perform at least as well as the best individual estimator. By incorporating an optimal linear fuser as another estimator, this fuser performs at le...

Volume-sensitive K-Cl cotransport occurs in red blood cells of many species. In intact cells, activation of K-Cl cotransport by swelling requires dephosphorylation of some cell protein, but maximal activity requires the presence of intracellular ATP. We have examined the relation between K-Cl cotransport activity and ATP in ghosts prepared from human red blood cells. K-Cl cotransport activity i...

We analyze the behavior of the Barvinok estimator of the hafnian of even dimension, symmetric matrices with nonnegative entries. We introduce a condition under which the Barvinok estimator achieves subexponential errors, and show that this condition is almost optimal. Using that hafnians count the number of perfect matchings in graphs, we conclude that Barvinok’s estimator gives a polynomialtim...

By an application of the theory of optimal estimating function, optimal instruments for dynamic models with conditional moment restrictions are derived. The general efficiency bound is provided, along with estimators attaining the bound. It is demonstrated that the optimal estimators are always at least as efficient as the traditional optimal generalized method of moments estimator, and usually...

Measurements of primordial non-Gaussianity (fNL) open a new window onto the physics of inflation. We describe a fast cubic (bispectrum) estimator of fNL, using a combined analysis of temperature and polarization observations. The speed of our estimator allows us to use a sufficient number of Monte Carlo simulations to characterize its statistical properties in the presence of real world issues ...