My dear applied statistics aficionados,
Our speaker tomorrow at Applied Stats<http://projects.iq.harvard.edu/applied_stats> will be James M. Robins from the School of Public Health who will be presenting Deterministic and Stochastic Counterfactuals, Interference Between Treatments, Causal Interactions, Bell's Inequality in Quantum Mechanics, and The Nature of Reality (Joint work with Tyler Vanderweele and Richard Gill).
According to the abstract: "By the end of the talk we will have answered the following. How is it possible that empirical data can be used to reject the existence of counterfactuals outcomes? Is it safe for a quantitative discipline to rely on a counterfactual approach to causation, when our best confrimed physical theory falsifies their existence?"
The full abstract and a copy of the paper can be found here: http://projects.iq.harvard.edu/applied_stats/event/james-robins-school-publ…
As per usual, the workshop will be held in CGIS K354<http://map.harvard.edu/?bld=04471&level=9> at 12 noon and lunch will be served.
Tess
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Tess Wise
PhD Candidate
Harvard Department of Government
http://tesswise.com
Hi all --
It is my pleasure to announce that our next speaker at Applied Stats<http://projects.iq.harvard.edu/applied_stats> will be Alan M. Zaslavsky from the Harvard Department of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School. The workshop will be in CGIS K354<http://map.harvard.edu/?bld=04471&level=9> this Wednesday, September 18th at noon. As per usual, lunch will be served. Due to the popularity of the workshop this year we have got permission to increase the food order so hopefully there will be enough food for everyone!
Professor Zaslavsky's presentation will be on "Propensity score weighting for covariate balance." You can read the abstract here: http://projects.iq.harvard.edu/applied_stats/event/alan-m-zaslavsky-harvard…
I look forward to seeing you all tomorrow!
Tess
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Tess Wise
PhD Candidate
Harvard Department of Government
http://tesswise.com
