PPT-Strengthening Causal Inference in HIV Studies: Introduction and Practical Examples

HIV Studies Introduction and Practical Examples CAPS Methods Core Presentation April 18 2012 Starley Shade Sheri Lippman MiSuk Kang Dufour amp Carol Camlin Outline Answering causal questions common roadblocks in . Jean-Philippe Pellet. Andre . Ellisseeff. Presented by Na Dai. Motivation. Why structure . l. earning?. What are Markov blankets?. Relationship between feature selection and Markov blankets?. Previous work. 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. Does Bell’s theorem prevent the use of causal explanations in quantum mechanics?. Part I:. Locality, Bell’s version of locality, and its discontents. The greatest mystery in science?. Locality. = “things do not go faster than . Children’s outcomes and family background. Claire Crawford. Introduction. UK has relatively low intergenerational mobility. Correlation between parents and children’s income is relatively high. Intergenerational elasticity of 0.29 for those born in Britain in 1970 (. 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. 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 data/ML. Ling . Ning. &. . Mayte. . Frias. . Senior Research Associates. Neil . Huefner. . Associate Director. Timo. Rico. Executive Director. Outline. Understanding causal effects. Methods for estimating causal effects. Assoc. . Prof. Dr. Şehnaz . Şahinkarakaş. Introduction to Causal-Comparative Research. A . causal-comparative. . study. is. a . study in which the researcher attempts to determine the cause, or reason, for pre-existing differences in groups of . 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);. Alex . Dimakis. UT Austin. j. oint work with . Murat . Kocaoglu. , . Karthik. . Shanmugam. Sriram. . Vishwanath. , . Babak. . Hassibi. Overview. Discovering causal directions . Part 1: . Interventions. Causal arguments are inductive arguments in which the conclusion is a claim that one thing causes another.. For example:. Clogged arteries cause heart attacks. A rough surface produces friction. Exercise during heat causes sweating. Qiang . Ning, . . Zhili. . Feng. , . Hao Wu, . Dan . Roth. 07/18/2018. University of Illinois, . Urbana-Champaign . &. University . of Pennsylvania. Time is Important. Understanding . HIV1 and slower to progress to AIDS.. Most cases are due to type1.. Modes of transmission. 1-sexual.. 2- perinatal.. 3-parenteral(occupational and intravenous drug injection).. 4- blood transfusion.. orthologs. varies across species. Error bars indicate standard deviation. .