Workshop on Statistical Causal Inference and its Applications to Genetics
We received the following announcement from Robin Evans (University of Oxford): Statistical Causal Inference and its Applications to Genetics, to be held at CRM in Montreal, July 25–29 2016. Additional...
View ArticleUAB’s Nutrition Obesity Research Center — Causal Inference Course
We received the following announcement from Richard F. Sarver (UAB): UAB’s Nutrition Obesity Research Center invite you to join them at one or both of our five-day short courses at the University of...
View ArticleWinter Greeting from the UCLA Causality Blog
Friends in causality research, This greeting from the UCLA Causality blog contains: A. An introduction to our newly published book, Causal Inference in Statistics – A Primer, Wiley 2016 (with M....
View ArticlePost-doc Causality and Machine Learning
We received the following announcement from Isabelle Guyon (UPSud/INRIA): The Machine Learning and Optimization (TAO) group of the Laboratory of Research in Informatics (LRI) is seeking a postdoctoral...
View ArticleRecollections from the WCE conference at Stanford
On May 21, Kosuke Imai and I participated in a panel on Mediation, at the annual meeting of the West Coast Experiment Conference, organized by Stanford Graduate School of Business...
View ArticleSpring Greeting from the UCLA Causality Blog
Dear friends in causality research, ———————————— This Spring Greeting from UCLA Causality blog contains: A. News items concerning causality research, B. New postings, new problems and some solutions....
View ArticleOn the Classification and Subsumption of Causal Models
From Christos Dimitrakakis: >> To be honest, there is such a plethora of causal models, that it is not entirely clear what subsumes what, and which one is equivalent to what. Is there a simple...
View ArticleThe Three Layer Causal Hierarchy
Recent discussions concerning causal mediation gave me the impression that many researchers in the field are not familiar with the ramifications of the Causal Hierarchy, as articulated in Chapter 1 of...
View ArticleExternal Validity and Extrapolations
Author: Judea Pearl The July issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences contains several articles on Causal Analysis in the age of Big Data, among them our (Bareinboim and Pearl’s)...
View ArticleSimpson’s Paradox: The riddle that would not die. (Comments on four recent...
Contributor: Judea Pearl If you search Google for “Simpson’s paradox,” as I did yesterday, you will get 111,000 results, more than any other statistical paradox that I could name. What elevates this...
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