We hope you can join us this Wednesday, October 3, 2012 for the Applied Statistics Workshop. Maximilian Kasy, Assistant Professor of Economics from the Department of Economics at Harvard University, will give a presentation entitled "Identification in General Triangular Systems". A light lunch will be served at 12 pm and the talk will begin at 12.15.
"Identification in General Triangular Systems"
Maximilian Kasy ...
We hope you can join us this Wednesday, September 26, 2012 for the Applied Statistics Workshop. Luke Miratrix, Assistant Professor of Statistics in the Department of Statistics at Harvard University, will give a presentation entitled "Random Weight Estimators: Adjusting Randomized Trials Without Using Observed Outcomes". A light lunch will be served at 12 pm and the talk will begin at 12.15.
We hope you can join us this Wednesday, September 19, 2012 for the Applied Statistics Workshop. Rich Nielsen, a Ph.D. candidate from the Department of Government at Harvard University, will give a practice job talk entitled "Jihadi Radicalization of Muslim Clerics". A light lunch will be served at 12 pm and the talk will begin at 12.15.
"Jihadi Radicalization of Muslim Clerics"
Rich Nielsen
Government Department,...
The NYT just alerted me to a paper by Joan Serra and coauthors demonstrating what we can learn about popular music with a big data approach. I'll leave it to you to interpret the trends they identify (music is getting louder, also more similar), but it was interesting and gave me a lot of ideas for how I could borrow some of this technology for my own research.
We hope you can join us this Wednesday, September 12, 2012 for the Applied Statistics Workshop. Jamie Robins, Professor of Epidemiology from the Harvard School of Public Health, will give a presentation entitled "A Simple Unification of the Potential Outcome and Causal Graph Approaches to Causal Inference". A light lunch will be served at 12 pm and the talk will begin at 12.15.
We hope you can join us this Wednesday, September 5, 2012 for the first Applied Statistics Workshop of the Fall 2012 semester. Michael Grubb, an Assistant Professor of Applied Economics from the MIT Sloan School of Management, will give a presentation entitled "Cellular Service Demand: Biased Beliefs, Learning, and Bill Shock". A light lunch will be served at 12 pm and the talk will begin at 12.15.
