2016

Title: Comparing marginal estimators of propensity-adjusted treatment effects in studies with few observed outcome events

Abstract:  Nonrandomized studies of treatments from electronic healthcare databases are critical for producing the evidence necessary...

Title: Robust Post-Matching Inference

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Nearest-neighbor matching (Cochran, 1953; Rubin, 1973) is a popular nonparametric tool to create balance between treatment and control groups in non-experimental data. As a preprocessing step for regression...

Title: Modeling Topic-Partitioned Network Structure

Abstract: 

In this talk, I will discuss two projects centered around modeling
topic-partitioned network structure. The first focuses on obtaining
and analyzing local government email corpora. I will describe...

Abstract: In 1969, economist Thomas Schelling introduced a landmark model of racial segregation in which individuals choose residences based on the racial composition of the corresponding neighborhoods.  Simple simulations of Schelling's model suggest...

Abstract: Developments at the intersection of the social sciences, computer science, and the Internet have opened up new vistas for studying social systems. These opportunities often come with substantial start up costs. For example, the Internet enables...