Prior Workshops
Winter 2022
January 14, 2022
Siwei Cheng, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, New York University
“Changing Contours: The Polarization of the U.S. Wage Distribution”
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January 28, 2022
Amos Golan, Professor Economics, American University
“Constructing Prior Information in the Social Sciences: An Information-Theoretic Approach”
February 11, 2022
Andy Eggers, Professor, University of Chicago’s Department of Political Science
“How Pervasive is Strategic Voting?”
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February 25, 2022
Isaiah Andrews, Professor of Economics at Harvard University
“Inference on Winners”
March 11, 2022
Gabe Lenz, Professor of Political Science, UC Berkeley
Unprotected: How State Failure Led to Violence, Police Brutality, and Mass Incarceration
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Spring 2022
April 1, 2022
Chris Holmes, Professor in Biostatistics at the department of Statistics at Oxford University
“Bayesian Predictive Inference”
April 15, 2022
Michael Sobel, Professor, Department of Statistics
Columbia University
Association and Causation: Attributes and Effects of Judges in Equal Opportunity Commission Litigation Outcomes
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April 29, 2022
Uri Simonsohn, Professor of Operations and Information Management, The Wharton School, UPenn
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May 6, 2022
Florencia Torche, Professor of Sociology, Stanford
“The Unequal Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Infant Health: Research and Data Infrastructure”
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May 13, 2022
Robert Gibbons, PhD. Blum-Riese Professor of Biostatistics, University of Chicago
“Item Response Theory: A Tribute to R. Darrell Bock”
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Autumn 2021
Date
Speaker
Title
Paper
October 8, 2021
Steven Durlauf, Professor of Public Policy
“The Great Gatsby Curve”
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October 22, 2021
Francesca Molinari, H. T. Warshow and Robert Irving Warshow Professor, Department of Economics, Cornell University
“Discrete Choice Models with Heterogeneous Preferences and Consideration”
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November 5, 2021
Sendhil Mullainathan, Professor of Computation and Behavioral Science at Chicago Booth
“Algorithmic Behavioral Science“
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November 19, 2021
Stephane Bonhomme, Professor at the University of Chicago Department of Economics
“Estimating Individual Responses when Tomorrow Matters”
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December 3, 2021
Justin Grimmer, Professor of Political Science and Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University
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Spring 2021
Date
Speaker
Title
Paper
April 9, 2021
Donna Coffman, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Temple University
April 23, 2021
Peng Ding, Associate Professor, Department of Statistics, Berkeley
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May 7, 2021
Panel Discussion: Social Determinants of Health
Host & Discussant: Melissa Gilliam, MD, MPH,Ellen H. Block Distinguished Service Professor of Health Justice and Vice Provost at the University of Chicago
Panelists:
Sir Michael Marmot, Professor of Epidemiology at University College London, Director of the UCL Institute of Health Equity, and Past President of the World Medical Association
C. Hendricks Brown, Professor in the Departments of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Preventive Medicine and Medical Social Sciences at the Northwestern University
Robert Gibbons, Ph.D. Blum Riese Professor of Biostatistics
Panel Discussion: Social Determinants of Health
Abstract: “Build back fairer: Social justice, health equity, and COVID-19” presented by Sir Michael Marmot
Abstract: “Reversing the Flow: What if Prevention Research Actually Addressed Social Determinants of Health; What Should Methodologists be Doing Now?” presented by C. Hendricks Brown
Abstract: “Some Statistical Issues in the Measurement of Social Determinants of Health” presented by Robert Gibbons
May 21, 2021
Yanyan Sheng, Senior Instructional Professor of the Committee on Quantitative Methods in Social, Behavioral, and Health Sciences
May 28, 2021
Concepts & Theory Panel: 10:00am-12:00pm
Feat. Lawrence Blume, Professor of Economics & Information Science, Cornell University
Lawrence Bobo, Professor of the Social Sciences, Harvard University
Sonja Starr, Professor of Law and Criminology, University of Chicago Law School
Glenn Loury, Professor of the Social Sciences, Economics, Brown University
Measurements & Empirics Panel: 1:00pm-3:00pm
Feat. Rene Flores, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Chicago
Michael Gaddis, Professor of Sociology, UCLA
Elizabeth Paluck, Professor of Psychology, Princeton University
Peter Blair, Assistant Professor of Education, Harvard Graduate School
“Prejudice & Stigma” half day Virtual Conference
Co-Hosted by the Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Global Working Group
Concepts & Theory Panel: 10:00am-12:00pm
Measurements & Empirics Panel: 1:00pm-3:00pm
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June 4, 2021
Speaker
Qianheng Ma, PhD student in Biostatistics, Department of Public Health Sciences.
Student Research/Thesis Presentations: 10:00am-12:00pm
Daniel Schwartz, PhD student in Biostatistics, Department of Public Health Sciences.
“Fast and Informative Phase 2b Dose-ranging Trials Using Bayesian Uncertainty-Directed Designs with Model Averaging” presented by Daniel Schwartz
Winter 2021
Date
Speaker
Title
Paper
January 15, 2021
Petra Todd, Professor of Economics, University of Pennsylvania
The Best of Both Worlds: Combining RCTs with Structural Modeling
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January 29, 2021
Jonathan Mummolo, Assistant Pofessor of Politics and Public Affairs
Princeton University
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February 12, 2021
Walter Mebane, Professor, Department of Political Science and Department of Statistics
University of Michigan
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February 26, 2021
Kate Cagney, Professor in Sociology, Director Population Research Center, NORC
Liang Cai, Doctoral Student in Sociology, University of Chicago
Activity Space, Social Interaction and Health in Later Life
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March 12, 2021
Ismael Mourifie, Assistant Professor at University of Toronto, Economics
An empirical framework for matching model with imperfect competition
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Fall 2020
Date
Speaker
Title
Paper
October 9, 2020
Guillaume Pouliot, Assistant Professor Harris School of Public Policy
October 23, 2020
David Banks, Ph.D. Statistics Duke University
Adversarial Risk Analysis: Auctions and Beyond
November 6, 2020
Paul Gustafson, Professor and Head Department of Statistics
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C.
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November 20, 2020
Xiao-Li Meng, Professor of Statistics, Harvard
December 4, 2020
Panel Discussion: “Conceptualizing and Measuring Discrimination“
Hosted by Professor Steven Durlauf, Harris School of Public Policy
Featured Speakers: Mario Small, Professor of Sociology at Harvard University
Emma Pierson, Assistant Professor of computer Science at Cornell Tech
Omar Wasow, Assistant Professor of Politics at Princeton
“Conceptualizing and Measuring Discrimination” Panel
Spring 2020
Postponed
Kathleen Cagney, Director Population Research Center, NORC at University of Chicago
Title
Paper
Postponed
Christian Hansen, Booth Professor of Econometrics and Statistics, University of Chicago
Title
Paper
Postponed
Yanyan Sheng, Senior Lecturer, Quantitative Methods Committee, University of Chicago
Title
Paper
Winter 2020
Date
Speaker
Title
Paper
January 10, 2020
Charles Manski, Professor of Economics, Northwestern University
January 24, 2020
Adam Glynn, Associate Professor of Political Science, Emory University
February 7, 2020
Konrad Menzel, Associate Professor in the Department of Economics, New York University
February 21, 2020
Christopher Berry, Professor at the Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago
Theory and Credibility
Fall 2019
Date
Speaker
Title
Paper
October 11, 2019
Ross “Rafe” Stolzenberg, Professor of Sociology, University of Chicago
“Preferential Credentials: Institutional Limits and Academic Effects of Preferential Treatment in College Admissions”
October 25, 2019
Bryon Aragam, Assistant Professor of Econometrics and Statistics and Robert H. Topel Faculty Scholar
“Identifiability of Non-parametric mixture models, Clustering, and Semi-supervised Learning”
November 8, 2019
Ishanu Chattopadhyay, Assistant Professor Department of Medicine, University of Chicago
November 22, 2019
Geoffrey Wodtke, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Chicago
December 6, 2019
Jeffrey Lewis, Professor of Political Science, UCLA
Spring 2012
| May 11 | Robert Gibbons | Professor, Departments of Medicine and Health Studies, Center for Health Statistics, University of Chicago | Examining the Average and Mediated Effects of Antidepressant Treatments through Meta-Analyses of Longitudinal Person-Level Data |
| June 1 | Stephen Raudenbush | Lewis-Sebling Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Sociology, Committee on Education, University of Chicago | Studying the Impact of Program Participation in Multi-Site Trials Using Instrumental Variables |
| June 15 | Don Hedeker | Professor, Department of Biostatistics, Institute for Health Research and Policy, University of Illinois at Chicago | Modeling Between- and Within-Subject Mood Variance in Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA) Data Using Mixed-Effects Location-Scale Models |
Fall 2012
| Oct 19 | Jake Bowers | Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | An Unorthodox Approach to Interference between Units |
| Nov 2 | Guanglei Hong1, Takako Nomi, Bing Yu | 1Associate Professor, Department of Comparative Human Development, Committee on Education, University of Chicago | Prognostic Score-Based Difference-in-Differences Strategy |
| Nov 16 | Pei-Hua Chen | Assistant Professor, Department of Management Science, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan | A Sampling-Based Test Assembly Method with Flexible Content Balancing |
| Nov 30 | Dulal Bhaumik | Professor, Department of Biostatistics, Psychiatry and Bioenginnering, Biostatistical Research Center, University of Illinois at Chicago | Meta-Analysis of Binary Rare Events Data |
Winter 2013
| Feb 1 | Kazuo Yamaguchi | Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Chicago | Causal analysis for linear regression with a latent-class treatment variable |
| Feb 15 | Yu Xie | Otis Dudley Duncan University Distinguished Professor of Sociology, Statistics, and Public Policy, and Research Professor at ISR, University of Michigan; Visiting Chair Professor, Peking University | Modeling individual-level heterogeneity with agent-based modeling |
| Feb 22 | Yasuo Miyazaki | Associate Professor, Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, School of Education, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University | Impacts of ignoring nested data structure in Rasch/IRT model |
| Mar 1 | James Heckman1and Rodrigo Pinto2 | 1 Henry Schultz Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Economics, Harris School of Public Policy, School of Law, University of Chicago; Professor of Science and Society, University College Dublin; Senior Research Fellow, American Bar Foundation; 2 Doctoral Student, Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Causal analysis after Haavelmo: Definitions and a unified analysis of identification |
Spring 2013
| April 19 | Albert Madansky | H.G.B. Alexander Professor Emeritus of Business Administration, Chicago Booth School of Business, University of Chicago | On sampling design issues when dealing with zeros |
| May 9 | Michael Sobel | Professor, Department of Statistics and Department of Sociology, Columbia University | Causal Inference for fMRI Time Series Data with Systematic Errors of Measurement in a Balanced On/Off Study of Social Evaluative Threat |
| June 3 | Stephen Raudenbush | Lewis-Sebling Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Sociology, Committee on Education, University of Chicago | To What Extent Do Student Perceptions of Classroom Quality Predict Teacher Value Added? A Multilevel Variable Selection Model |
Fall 2013
| Nov 15 | Robert Gibbons | Professor, Departments of Medicine and Health Studies, Center for Health Statistics, University of Chicago | The Future of Psychiatric Measurement |
Winter 2014
| Jan 10 | Stephen Raudenbush | Lewis-Sebling Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Sociology, Committee on Education, University of Chicago | Random Coefficient Models for Multi-site Trials With Continuous Outcomes |
| Jan 24 | Jens Ludwig | McCormick Foundation Professor of Social Service Administration, Law, and Public Policy in the School of Social Service Administration and the Harris School; Director, University of Chicago Crime Lab | The Effects of School Desegreegation on Crime |
| Feb 21 | C. Hendricks Brown | Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Medical Social Sciences | Casual Interpretations Involving Discrete Mixture Modeling: Implicatinos for Interventions for Depression and Suicide |
| Mar 7 | David Meltzer | Professor of Medicine; Chief, Section of Hospital Medicine; Associate Professor of Economics and Public Policy | Infrastructure and Methods in Patient Centered Outcomes Research |
Spring 2014
| April 4 | Ron Thisted | Lewis-Sebling Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Sociology, Committee on Education, University of Chicago | Random Coefficient Models for Multi-site Trials With Continuous Outcomes |
| April 18 | Guanglei Hong & Xu Qin | Associate Professor, Department of Comparative Human Development, Committee on Education, University of Chicago | Causal Mediation Analysis in Multi-site Trials |
| May 2 | Stephen Stigler | Ernest DeWitt Burton Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Statistics and the College | Causal Reasoning & Public Policy a Century Ago: A Case Study |
| May 16 | Naihua Duan | Professor of Biostatistics, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University Medical Center | Small Data and Big Data |
| May 30 | Luke Miratrix | Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, Harvard University | Testing for and Characterizing Treatment Effect Heterogeneity Under the Neyman-Rubin Potential Outcomes Frameword |
Fall 2014
| Oct 3 | Brian Junker | Associate Dean of Dietrich College; Professor of Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University | Predictive Inference Using Latent Variables with Covariates |
| Oct 17 | Forest Gregg | University of Chicago | Learning Neighborhoods |
| Oct 31 | Avi Feller | Harvard University | Compared to What? Variation in the Impacts of Early Childhood Education by Alternative Care-Type Settings |
| Nov 14 | Fan Yang | Assistant Professor, University of Chicago | Do C-Sections Protest Very Premature Babies? Aporetic Conclusions When testing the Validity of an Instrumental Variable |
Winter 2015
| Jan 9 | Robert Gibbons & Don Hedeker | Professor, Departments of Medicine and Public Health Sciences, Center for Health Statistics, University of Chicago; Professor, Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Chicago | Recent Advances in Generalized Mixed-effects Regression Models |
| Jan 23 | Lin Chen | Assistant Professor, University of Chicago | Mixed effects models for proteomics data with cluster-level non-ignorable missingness |
| Feb 6 | Bruce D. Spencer | Professor of Statistics, Faculty Fellow, Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University | Should Society Try to Measure the Accuracy of Verdicts in Criminal Trials? – A Total Survey Error (TSE) Perspective |
| Feb 20 | James Heckman & John Eric Humphries | Henry Schultz Distinguished Service Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, University of Chicago National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow, PhD student, Department of Economics, University of Chicago |
The Effects of Education on Earnings and Health |
Spring 2015
| May 1 | Danny Almirall | Research Assistant Professor, Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan | On the Comparison of Adaptive Interventions Using Repeated Measures Data from a SMART: Applications in Child and Adolescent Mental Health |
| May 15 | Guanglei Hong, Cheng Yang, Xu Qin, & Edward Bein | Association Professor, Department of Comparative Human Development and the Committee on Education research scientist at NORC Doctoral Student in the Department of Comparative Human Development Statistician at Abt Associates |
Two-Step Estimation in Causal Mediation Analysis |
| May 29 | Bob Mislevy | Frederic M. Lord Chair in Measurement and Statistics, Educational Testing Service | How Advances in Psychology and Technology Challenge Educational Measurement: Statistics Ain’t the Half of It! |
Fall 2015
| October 30 | Sean Reardon, Benhamin Shear, Katherine E. Castellano, & Andrew Ho | Stanford University Educational Testing Service Harvard Graduate School of Education |
Using Heteroskedastic Ordered Probit Models to Recover Moments of Coarsened Test Score Distributions |
| November 13 | Xiao-Li Meng | Harvard University | I Got More Data, My Model is More Refined, but My Estimator is Getting Worse? Am I Just Dumb? |
Winter 2016
| February 19 | Dylan Small | Professor, Department of Statistics, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Case Definition and Design Sensitivity in Case Control Studies |
Spring 2016
| April 1 | Jennifer Hill | Professor of Applied Statistics and Data Science, New York University | Flexible, Interpretable Framework for Assessing Sensitivity to Unmeasured Confounding |
| April 15 | Matthew Stephens | Professor, Departments of Statistics and Human Genetrics, University of Chicago | False Discovery Rates – a new deal |
| April 29 | Xi Song | Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Chicago | Linked Lives, Linked Trajectories: Intergenerational Association of Intragenerational Income Mobility |
| May 13 | Li Cai | Professor in Advanced Quantitative Methodology, UCLA | Item Response Theory |
| May 27 | Christopher Walters | Assistant Professor of Economics, University of California, Berkeley | Leveraging Lotteries for School Value-Added: Testing and Estimation |
Fall 2016
| October 7 | Xu Qin | PhD Student, Comparative Human Development, University of Chicago | Assessing Heterogeneity of Causal Mediation Mechanism in Multi-Site Trials |
| October 21 | Jiebiao Wang | PhD Student, Public Health Sciences,University of Chicago | A High-Dimensional Multivariate Selection Model for Proteomics Data with Batch-Level Missingness |
| November 4 | Tyler VanderWeele | Professor, Department of Biostatistics, Harvard University | On the causal interpretation of race in regressions adjusting for confounding and mediating variables |
| November 18 | Elizabeth Maggie Penn | Professor of Political Science and the College, University of Chicago | Inequality, Social Context, and Value Divergence |
| December 2 | Richard Hahn | Associate Professor of Econometrics and Statistics; Chicago Booth | Bayesian Causal Forests |
Winter 2017
| February 10 | Stephen W. Raudenbush & Daniel Schwartz | Lewis-Sebring Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Sociology, the College, the Harris School of Public Policy and Chair, Committee on Education, University of Chicago | Estimation in Multisite Randomized Trials with Heterogeneous Treatment Effects |
| February 24 | Azeem Shaikh | Professor of Economics, University of Chicago | Inference Under Covariate-Adaptive Randomization |
| March 10 | Marc Berman | Director, Environmental Neuroscience Laboratory, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Member, Grossman Neuroscience Institute, Fellow, Computation Institute, University of Chicago | Neural and Environmental Factors Related to Self-Control |
Spring 2017
| April 7 | Stephane Bonhomme | Professor of Economics, University of Chicago | Discretizing Unobserved Heterogeneity |
| April 21 | Kazuo Yamaguchi | Hanna Holborn Gray Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Chicago | Decomposition Analyses of Segregation |
| May 5 | Guanglei Hong & Xu Qin | Associate Professor, Department of Comparative Human Development, University of Chicago Ph.D. Student, Department of Comparative Human Development, University of Chicago |
A weighting-based approach to sensitivity analysis in the context of single-level and multilevel mediation analysis |
Fall 2017
October 13 – Dulal K. Bhaumik, Director Biostatistical Research Center, Professor of Biostatistics, Psychiatry and Bioengineering at the University of Illinois at Chicago
Title: Sample Size Determination for Multilevel Hierarchical
Designs Using Generalized Linear Mixed Models
October 27 – Yongyun Shin, Associate Professor, Department of Biostatistics, Virginia Commonwealth University
Title: Sources of Variance in a Random coefficients Model Given
Data MAR
November 1 – Bradley P. Carlin, Associate Professor and Head, Division of Biostatistics Mayo Professor in Public Health at the University of Minnesota
Title: Academic Industry Government Collborations in Bayesian
Adaptive Clinical Trials and Regulatory Science
November 17 – Andrey Rzhetsky, Professor in the Department of Human Genetics at the University of Chicago
Title: Adventures with Large Biomedical Datasets: Diseases,
Medical Record, Environment and Genetics
December 6 – Donald B. Rubin, John L. Loeb Professor of Statistics Department of Statistics, Harvard University
Title: Evaluating the Effect of Training on Wages in the Presence of Noncompliance, Nonemployment and Missing Outcome Data
Winter 2018
January 26 – Steven Durlauf, Steans Professor in Educational Policy at the University of Chicago Harris Schol of Public Policy
Title: Identifying Social Influences on Individual Outcomes
February 2 – Dan Black, Professor Harris School of Public Policy with Joonwhi Joo University of Chicago, Bob LaLonde University of Chicago, Jeff Smith, University of Wisconsin at Madison, and Evan Taylor, University of Chicago
Title: Simple Tests for Selection: Learning More from Instrumental Variables
February 22 – Donald Hedeker, Professor of Biostatistics, Department of Public Health Sciences at the University of Chicago
Title: Investigating Mood Regulation and Smoking Applications of Mixed Effects Location-Scale Models for Intensive Longitudinal Data
March 2 – Justin Grimmer, Associate Profesor Department of Political Science University of Chicago
Title: How to Make Causal Inferences Using Texts
Spring 2018
April 13 – Luc Anselin, Ph.D. Stien-Freiler Distinguished Service Professor of Sociology and the College at the University of Chicago, Chair Committee on Geographical Sciences, Director Center for Spatial Data, Science and Senior Fellow, NORC
Title: More LISA, Multivariate Extensions
April 27 – Michal Kolesar, Princeton University, Assistant Professor of Economics and Public Affairs
Title: Inference in Instrumental Variable Analysis with Heterogeneous Treatment Effects
May 11 – Andrew Ho, Professor of Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education
Title: Linking Methods for Comparing Group Means Proficiency Cut Scores Across Tests
May 25 – Azeem Shaikh, Professor of Economics, Department of Economics at University of Chicago
Title: Inference Under Covariate Adaptive Randomization
Fall 2018
Oct 12 Anthony Fowler, Associate Professor Harris School of Public Policy
Title: Correcting Point Estimates for Publication Bias
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Oct 26 Hyunseung Kang, Assistant Professor University of Wisconsin-Madison
Title: Spillover Effects in Cluster Randomized Trials with Non-
Compliance
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Nov 9 John Rust, Gallagher Family of Professor of Economics, Georgetown University
Title: Has Dynamic Programming Improved Decision Making?
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Nov 16 Kazuo Yamaguchi, Hanna Holborn Gray Professor, Sociology, University of Chicago
Title: A New RCM Approach to Survival Analysis: An Analysis of the Effect on leaving home on Sexual Initiation
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Nov 30 Panagiotis Toulis, Assistant Professor of Econometrics and Statistics, and John E. Jeuck Faculty Fellow
Title: Randomization inference of causal effects under interference
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Dec 7 Faculty Retreat (*please reserve date*)
Winter 2019
Jan 11, 2019
Veronika Rockova, Assistant Professor in Econometrics and Statistics and James S. Kemper Foundation Faculty Scholar, University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Dynamic Sparse Factor Analysis
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Jan 25, 2019
Lars Hansen, David Rockefeller Distinguished Professor, Department of Economics, Statistics and the Booth School of Business, University of Chicago
Structured Uncertainty and Model Misspecification
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Feb 8, 2019
Dan Yurovsky, Assistant Professor of Psychology in the Cognition and Developmental Areas, University of Chicago
Communication as Planning Under Uncertainty
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Feb 22, 2019
Elizabeth Tipton, Associate Professor in the Statistics Department at Northwestern University
The Role of Sampling and Recruitment in Improving the Policy Relevance of RCTs
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Mar 8, 2019
Rina Foygel Barber, Associate Professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of Chicago
Robust Inference with the Knockoff Filter
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Spring 2019
Apr 4, 2019
Event Co-sponsored by the Computational Social Science Workshop *Please note the special time and location*
Location: Kent room 120
Time: 11:00am-12:20pm
Amos Golan, Professor of Economics, Director of Info-Metric Institute American University
Information, Modeling and Inference: The Info-Metrics Framework
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Apr 12, 2019
*Please note the special time and location*
Location: Saieh Hall Room 021 (lower level)
Sharon-Lise T. Normand, S. James Adelstein Professor of Health Care Policy (biostatistics) in the Department of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School in the Department of Biostatistics at the Harvard School of Public Health
Bayesian Hierarchical Multivariate Poisson Regression for Characterizing the Diffusion of New Anti-psychotic Drugs
Apr 19, 2019
Monika Nalepa, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago
Identifying the Causal Effect of Transitional Justice on Quality of Democratic Representation
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May 3, 2019
Ken Frank, MSU Foundation Professor of Sociometrics, Measurement and Quantitative Methods Counseling, Educational Psychology and Special Education at Michigan State Univeristy
Importance of Model Specification for Causal Inference in Social Network Analysis
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Click here for suggested background reading
May 17, 2019
John Brehm, Professor in Political Science, Director Undergraduate Studies, University of Chicago
“Classifying Messages by Persuasive Approach using Tweets about the Supreme Court Nominations“
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May 24, 2019
Event Co-Sponsored by the
Political Economy Workshop
*Please note the special time and location*
Location: Saieh Hall Room 021 (lower level)
Andrew Gelman, Professor of Statistics/Political Science, Director of Applied Statistics Center at Columbia University
Multilevel Modeling as a Way of Life
Suggested background Readings:
http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/research/published/gelman.pdf
http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/research/published/multiple2f.pdf
http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/research/published/misterp.pdf
http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/research/published/AOAS1122.pdf
May 31, 2019
Jeffrey Grogger, Irving Harris Professor in Urban Policy, Harris School of Public Policy
The Wage of Penalty of Regional Accents