Date |
Presenter |
Title |
Wednesday, September 4
*Time: 4:30-5:30 pm
*Location: F45 Huntsman Hall |
Marc Suchard – University of California, Los Angeles |
Large-scale Evidence Generation across a Network of Databases (LEGEND) for Hypertension: Real-world, Reliable and Reproducible |
Wednesday, September 11
*Time: 4:30-5:30 pm
*Location: F45 Huntsman Hall |
Ilya Shpitser – Johns Hopkins University |
Identification and Estimation of Causal Parameters via a Modified Factorization of a Graphical Model |
Wednesday, September 18
*Time: 4:30-5:30 pm
*Location: F45 Huntsman Hall |
Andrea Rotnitzky – Universidad Torcuato Di Tella |
Efficient Adjustment Sets for Non-parametric Population Average Causal Effect Estimation in Graphical Models |
Wednesday, September 25
*Time: 4:30-5:30 pm
*Location: F45 Huntsman Hall |
Colin Fogarty – Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Testing Weak Nulls in Paired Observational Studies |
Wednesday, October 2
*Time: 4:30-5:30 pm
*Location: F45 Huntsman Hall |
Sham Kakade – University of Washington |
Prediction, Learning, and Memory |
Wednesday, October 9
*Time: 4:30-5:30 pm
*Location: F45 Huntsman Hall |
Fan Li – Duke University |
A Bracketing Relationship between Difference-in-Differences and Lagged-Dependent-Variable Adjustment |
Wednesday, October 16
*Time: 4:30-5:30 pm
*Location: F45 Huntsman Hall |
Constantinos Daskalakis – Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Reducing ML Bias Using Truncated Statistics |
Wednesday, October 23
*Time: 4:30-5:30 pm
*Location: F45 Huntsman Hall |
Alex (Shaojie) Deng – Microsoft Analysis and Experimentation Team |
Trustworthy Post-selection Inference in A/B Testing |
Wednesday, October 30
*Time: 4:30-5:30 pm
*Location: F45 Huntsman Hall |
Weijie Su – University of Pennsylvania |
Gaussian Differential Privacy |
Wednesday, November 6
*Time: 4:30-5:30 pm
*Location: F45 Huntsman Hall |
Ming Yuan – Columbia University |
Information Based Complexity of High Dimensional Sparse Functions |
Wednesday, November 13
*Time: 4:30-5:30 pm
*Location: F45 Huntsman Hall |
Jacob Bien – University of Southern California |
Reluctant Interaction Modeling |
Wednesday, November 20
*Time: 4:30-5:30 pm
*Location: F45 Huntsman Hall |
Eric Bradlow – University of Pennsylvania |
Selecting Data Granularity Using the Power Likelihood |
Wednesday, December 4
*Time: 4:30-5:30 pm
*Location: F45 Huntsman Hall |
Shivani Agarwal – University of Pennsylvania |
Multiclass Learning with General Losses: What is the Right Output Coding and Decoding? |
Wednesday, December 11
*Time: 4:30-5:30 pm
*Location: F45 Huntsman Hall |
Ed George – University of Pennsylvania |
Hospital Mortality Rate Estimation and Standardization: The Disaster of Medicare’s Hospital Compare |