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