Rerandomization in 2K factorial experiments

DOI10.1214/18-AOS1790zbMATH Open1439.62179arXiv1812.10911OpenAlexW3007747739MaRDI QIDQ2176607FDOQ2176607

Donald B. Rubin, Xinran Li, Peng Ding

Publication date: 5 May 2020

Published in: The Annals of Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: With many pretreatment covariates and treatment factors, the classical factorial experiment often fails to balance covariates across multiple factorial effects simultaneously. Therefore, it is intuitive to restrict the randomization of the treatment factors to satisfy certain covariate balance criteria, possibly conforming to the tiers of factorial effects and covariates based on their relative importances. This is rerandomization in factorial experiments. We study the asymptotic properties of this experimental design under the randomization inference framework without imposing any distributional or modeling assumptions of the covariates and outcomes. We derive the joint asymptotic sampling distribution of the usual estimators of the factorial effects, and show that it is symmetric, unimodal, and more "concentrated" at the true factorial effects under rerandomization than under the classical factorial experiment. We quantify this advantage of rerandomization using the notions of "central convex unimodality" and "peakedness" of the joint asymptotic sampling distribution. We also construct conservative large-sample confidence sets for the factorial effects.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.10911

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zbMATH Keywords

covariate balanceconfidence settiers of covariatestiers of factorial effects

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonparametric tolerance and confidence regions (62G15) Optimal statistical designs (62K05) Statistical block designs (62K10) Factorial statistical designs (62K15) Applications of statistics to social sciences (62P25)

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