PPT-Causal Inference for Policy Evaluation

Susan Athey Stanford GSB Based on joint work with Guido Imbens Stefan Wager References outside CS literature Imbens and Rubin Causal Inference book 2015 synthesis of literature prior to big dataML. 1093panmpr013 Causal Inference without Balance Checking Coarsened Exact Matching Stefano M Iacus Department of Economics Business and Statistics University of Milan Via Conservatorio 7 I20124 Mila Ognyan. Oreshkov. , . Fabio . Costa. , . ČaslavBrukner. Bhubaneswar. arXiv:1105.4464. 20 December2011. Conference on Quantum Information. X. T. D. E. A. B. C. A. B. C. D. E. Measurements in space-time. Reversible Debugging. Ivan . Lanese. Focus research group. Computer Science . and Engineering Department. Univers. ity . of Bologna/INRIA. Bologna, Italy. Joint work with Elena Giachino (FOCUS) and Claudio Antares Mezzina (FBK Trento). from . Mass Cytometry Data. Presenters: . Ioannis Tsamardinos. and Sofia Triantafillou. Institute of Computer Science, Foundation for Research and Technology, Hellas. Computer Science Department, University of Crete. Michael Rosenblum. March 16, 2010. Overview. I describe the set of assumptions encoded by a causal directed acyclic graph (DAG). I use an example from page 15 of the book . Causality. by Judea Pearl (2009). . Faculty of Physics, University of Vienna &. Institute . for Quantum Optics . and Quantum Information, Vienna . Mateus . Araujo. , . Cyril . Branciard, Fabio Costa, Adrian Feix. , Christina . Giarmatzi, Ognyan Oreshkov, Magdalena Zych. PcOR. : . controversies in the field. Heejung Bang, PhD. UC-Davis. 1. Why PCOR?. Me as . a . negative/null/lazy researcher-patient. . & co-I of a PCORI trial, my personal and honest feelings about . Dr Steven Stillman. Senior Fellow, Motu . Adjunct Professor of Economics, Waikato. NIDEA Theme Leader, New Zealand’s individuals, families and households. Launch Symposium, November 24. th. 2010. The Importance of Experimental Evidence . Naftali Weinberger. Tilburg Center for Logic, Ethics and Philosophy of Science. Time and Causality in the Sciences. June 8. th. , 2017. Principle of the . C. ommon Cause. iPad. Happiness. iPad. Happiness. Causes are . difference-makers. .. Effect need not be . universal/deterministic. .. N. ot . everyone who is bitten by a cobra . dies. .. N. ot . everyone who dies is bitten by a . cobra. .. B. ut . cobra bites still cause . . Richard Scheines. Philosophy, Machine Learning, . Human-Computer Interaction . Carnegie Mellon University. 2. Goals. Basic Familiarity with Causal Model Search: . What it is. What it can and cannot do. Austin Nichols (Abt) & Linden McBride (Cornell). July 27, 2017. Stata Conference. Baltimore, MD. Overview. Machine learning methods dominant for classification/prediction problems.. Prediction is useful for causal inference if one is trying to predict propensity scores (probability of treatment conditional on observables);. Sciences: QUICK EXAMPLES. #. konfoundit. Kenneth A. . Frank. Ran . Xu; Zixi . Chen. ; I-Chien Chen, Guan Saw. 2018. (. AERA on-line video – cost is . $105. ). Motivation . Statistical inferences are often challenged because of uncontrolled bias. There may be bias due to uncontrolled confounding . Sciences: QUICK EXAMPLES. #. konfoundit. Kenneth A. . Frank. Ran . Xu; Zixi . Chen. ; I-Chien Chen, Guan Saw. 2018. (. AERA on-line video – cost is . $105. ). Motivation . Statistical inferences are often challenged because of uncontrolled bias. There may be bias due to uncontrolled confounding .