webinars

Distribution generalization and causal inference

2023-02-28

Distribution generalization and causal inference Monday, March 20th, 2023, 7:00 PT / 10:00 ET / 15:00 CET 1st joint webinar of the IMS New Researchers Group, Young Data Science Researcher Seminar Zürich and the YoungStatS Project. When & Where: […] Speakers: […] Abstract:…

machine-learning

Inference on Adaptively Collected Data

Ruohan Zhan / 2022-10-11

It is increasingly common for data to be collected adaptively, where experimental costs are reduced progressively by assigning promising treatments more frequently. However, adaptivity also poses great challenges on post-experiment inference, since observations are dependent, and standard estimates…

webinars

Theory and Methods for Inference in Multi-armed Bandit Problems

2022-04-19

Theory and Methods for Inference in Multi-armed Bandit Problems Multi-armed bandit (MAB) algorithms have been argued for decades as useful to conduct adaptively-randomized experiments. By skewing the allocation of the arms towards the more efficient or informative ones, they have the potential to…

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Recent Advancements in Applied Instrumental Variable Methods

2022-02-07

Recent Advancements in Applied Instrumental Variable Methods Instrumental variables (IV) is one of most important and widespread research designs in economics and statistics, as it can identify causal effects in the presence of unobserved confounding. Over the past 30 years the science of IV has…

causal-inference

Heterogeneous Treatment Effects with Instrumental Variables: A Causal Machine Learning Approach

Falco J. Bargagli Stoffi / 2021-12-06

In our forthcoming paper on Annals of Applied Statistics, we propose a new method – which we call Bayesian Causal Forest with Instrumental Variable (BCF-IV) – to interpretably discover the subgroups with the largest or smallest causal effects in an instrumental variable setting. These are many…

webinars

Advances in Difference-in-Differences in Econometrics

2021-09-30

Advances in Difference-in-Differences in Econometrics The eighth “One World webinar” organized by YoungStatS will take place on December 15th, 2021. The difference-in-differences design is a quasi-experimental identification strategy for estimating causal effects which has become the single most…