2017

James Robins (Harvard- Public Health) presents.

Video coming soon. 

Abstract:

Truncation is a structured form of selection bias that arises often in cohort studies. A time to event, X, is left...

Kenneth Bollen presents "Model implied instrumental variables (MIIVs): An Alternative orientation to structural equation models"

ABSTRACT

It is hardly controversial to say that our models are approximations to reality.  Yet when it comes to...

Michael Bronstein presents "Deep learning on graphs: going beyond Euclidean data"

Cassandra Pattanayak (Wellesley) presents "Effects of Mentors and Advisors on Major Choice: A Naturally Re-Randomized Experiment and a Subclassified Observational Study"

We examine the effects of a peer mentor’s major and faculty advisor’s department...

Title: Robust principal scores for estimating survivor causal effects with application to analyses of litigation outcomes

Abstract: In many studies, outcomes are unobserved or undefined for some units under analysis. This is common in empirical...

How to Make Causal Inferences Using Text

(with Naoki Egami, Christian Fong, Justin Grimmer and Brandon Stewart)

Texts are increasingly used to make causal inferences: either with the document serving as the treatment or the outcome.  We introduce a...