Dear Applied Statistics Workshop Community,
Our next meeting of the semester will be on February 22 (12:00 EST). Molly
Offer-Westort will present "Adaptive experimental designs for policy
learning and evaluation, with applications to Facebook Messenger studies."
<Where>
CGIS K354
Bagged lunches are available for pick-up at 11:40 (CGIS K354).
Zoom:
https://harvard.zoom.us/j/99181972207?pwd=Ykd3ZzVZRnZCSDZqNVpCSURCNnVvQT09
<Abstract>
When running multi-arm trials, experimenters may wish to both learn and
evaluate data-driven policies; for example, learning which version of
treatment is most effective and evaluating the effect of that treatment in
comparison to a control condition. Response adaptive algorithms, which
dynamically update treatment assignment mechanisms based on observed
response, facilitate experimental designs where the most data is collected
about the most effective interventions, and can improve policy learning
over conventional randomized trials. I discuss design decisions when
running adaptive experiments, and considerations for inference when using
adaptively collected data. I review applications to Facebook Messenger
studies using different adaptive algorithms.
<2022-2023 Schedule>
GOV 3009 Website:
https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/applied.stats.workshop-gov3009
Calendar:
https://calendar.google.com/calendar/embed?src=c_3v93pav9fjkkldrbu9snbhned8…
Best,
Shusei