Hi Everyone,
Attached is announcement for a one-day course on causal inference that
will be given on April 13th by Professors James M. Robins, Miguel Hernan,
and Andrea Rotnitzky.
See you all Wednesday!
Shigeo
Saturday, April 13, 2002
One-Day Course:
Causal Inference from Observational and Experimental Studies.
Faculty: Professors James M. Robins, Miguel Hernan, and Andrea Rotnitzky
Harvard School of Public Health Program on Causal Inference in
Epidemiology and Allied Sciences
This one-day course covers statistical methods for causal inference, with
emphasis on complex longitudinal data. Topics covered will include the
following:
-> Association vs. Causation: An Introduction to the Problem of
Causal Inference including a review of Point Treatment Studies,
Instrumental Variables, and Propensity Scores.
-> Counterfactual, structural equation, and directed acyclic graph
causal models for causality and their interrelationship;
-> Recent advances in instrumental variable methods with censored and
discrete responses.
-> Recent advances in the analysis of the effect of sequential
actions, time-varying treatments, and direct and indirect effects using
inverse probability of treatment-weighted estimation of marginal
structural models and g-estimation of structural nested models.
The course should be of particular interest to researchers who are faced
with drawing causal inferences or making decisions concerning appropriate
treatments or interventions based on observational or experimental data,
including sociologists, economists, political scientists, epidemiologists,
statisticians, and operations research, machine learning, and artificial
intelligence researchers.
Time: 9:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Cost: $40
Please RSVP to Sue Perry (sperry(a)rhoworld.com) by Tuesday, April 9.
Location: Center for Basic Research in the Social Sciences
34 Kirkland St.
Cambridge, MA 02138
http://www.cbrss.harvard.edu/map.htm
Directions: Red line to Harvard Square
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Shigeo Hirano Political Economy and Government
shirano(a)fas.harvard.edu Harvard University
Hi Everyone,
On Wednesday March 20th, Boris Groysberg, a graduate student at the
Harvard Business School, will be presenting his paper "Can They Take it
With Them? The Portability of Star Knowledge Workers' Performance: Myth or
Reality?". The paper is posted on the course webpage
(http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/~gov3009/spring02/Groysberg.pdf).
See you Wednesday!
Shigeo
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Shigeo Hirano Political Economy and Government
shirano(a)fas.harvard.edu Harvard University
Hi Everyone,
This coming Wednesday, Brian Jacobs, an assistant professor at the Kennedy
School, will present his paper with Steve Levitt entitled, "Rotten Apples:
An Investigation of the Prevalence and Predictors of Teacher Cheating".
The paper will be posted later this afternoon. The abstract of the paper
is given below.
See you all Wednesday!
Shigeo
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Shigeo Hirano Political Economy and Government
shirano(a)fas.harvard.edu Harvard University
ABSTRACT
We develop an algorithm for detecting teacher cheating that combines
information on unexpected test score fluctuations and suspicious patterns
of answers for students in a classroom. Using data from the Chicago
Public Schools, we estimate that serious cases of teacher or administrator
cheating on standardized tests occur in 4-5 percent of elementary school
classrooms annually. Moreover, the observed frequency of cheating appears
to respond strongly to relatively minor changes in incentives. Our
results suggest that introducing high-stakes testing without appropriate
safeguards will likely lead to widespread cheating.
Hi Everyone,
For Wednesday March 6th meeting of the Applied Statistics Workshop, we are
very fortunate to have presentations by two graduate students from the
Statistics Department, Shane Jensen and Samantha Cook. Shane will present
his work entitled, "Bayesian and Maximum Likelihood Approaches to Mixture
Modelling of Schizophrenia Laboratory Measures." by Shane Jensen, Mark
Lenzenweger, and Donald Rubin. Samantha will present her work entitled,
"Working Memory Impairments in Schizophrenics: A Bayesian Bivariate IRT
Approach." by Samantha Cook, John Barnard, Yungtai Lo, Donald Rubin,
Michael Coleman, Stephen Matthysse, Deborah Levy, and Philip Holzman.
See you all Wednesday!
Shigeo
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Shigeo Hirano Political Economy and Government
shirano(a)fas.harvard.edu Harvard University
