September 2016
CIRG Seminar: Michael Hudgens (postponed from Sept 2)
Michael Hudgens, Professor of Biostatistics here at UNC-CH, will be the first speaker in the 2016 CIRG Fall Seminar Series. His talk is "An Introduction to Causal Inference". Please note that this talk was previously scheduled for Friday Sept 2 and has now been postponed to Friday Sept 9. The location has also been changed to McGavran-Greenberg 2301.
Find out more »January 2018
CIRG Seminar: Til Stürmer & Jess Edwards
Til Stürmer, Professor at UNC, and Jess Edwards, Assistant Professor at UNC, will be speaking at the January installment of our monthly CIRG seminar. The title of the talk is "New Versus Prevalent User Designs In Pharmacoepidemiology: Time To Get Principled About When We Can Be Pragmatic." All are welcome to attend.
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CIRG Seminar: Jess Edwards
Jess Edwards, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology at UNC, will be speaking at the September installment of our CIRG seminar series. All are welcome to attend.
Find out more »October 2019
CIRG Seminar: Edward Kennedy
Edward Kennedy, Assistant Professor of Statistics and Data Science at Carnegie Mellon University, will be presenting "Influence Functions and Machine Learning in Causal Inference." Abstract: This short course will cover the basics of efficient nonparametric estimation in causal inference. In particular we will discuss nonparametric efficiency bounds for causal estimands, and efficient bias-corrected estimators based on influence functions. Importantly, these estimators can yield fast rates of convergence and normal limiting distributions, even in complex nonparametric models where nuisance functions (e.g.,…
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