Yesterday, Joshua Angrist and Guido Imbens, whose most cited paper is this JASA 1996 article with Don Rubin, were awarded the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel for 2021. It is one of these not-so-rare instances when econometricians get this prize, with causality the motive for their award. I presume this will not see the number of Biometrika submissions involving causal inference go down! (Imbens wrote a book on causal inference with Don Rubin, and is currently editor of Econometrica. And Angrist wrote Mostly Harmless Econometrics, with J.S. Pischke, which I have not read.)
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causal inference makes it to Stockholm
Posted in Statistics with tags Biometrika, causal inference, Econometrica, econometrics, instrumental variables, JASA, Nobel Prize, Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel on October 12, 2021 by xi'anIntroductory overview lecture: the ABC of ABC [JSM19 #1]
Posted in Statistics with tags ABC, American Statistical Association, Approximate Bayesian computation, approximate Bayesian inference, causal inference, Colorado, Denver, evidence, forensic statistics, Joint Statistical Meeting, JSM 2019, lecture on July 28, 2019 by xi'an
Here are my slides [more or less] for the introductory overview lecture I am giving today at JSM 2019, 4:00-5:50, CC-Four Seasons I. There is obviously quite an overlap with earlier courses I gave on the topic, although I refrained here from mentioning any specific application (like population genetics) to focus on statistical and computational aspects.
Along with the other introductory overview lectures in this edition of JSM:
- Sunday 28, 2:00-3:50, CC-Four Seasons I: CSI at the JSM: Forensic Statistics and the Value of Scientific Evidence in Court by Hal Stern (University of California, Irvine)
- Monday 29, 8:30-10:20, CC-205: Assessing Procedures vs. Assessing Evidence by Michael Levine (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
- Monday 29, 2:00_3:50, CC-205: Causal inference in modern statistics by Jennifer Hill (New York University)and Avi Feller (UC Berkeley)
- Tuesday 30, 8:30-10:20, CC-205: Modern Risk Analysis by Walter Piergorsch (University of Arizona) and David Banks (Duke University)
econometrics summer masterclass at Warwick, 15 May
Posted in pictures, Statistics, Travel, University life with tags causal inference, Don Rubin, economics, lock, summer course, University of Warwic on May 9, 2019 by xi'an
There is an Econometrics Summer Masterclass taking place in the department of economics next week in Warwick, on May 15, with Don Rubin as one of the speakers and the masterclass teacher.
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