October 2011

App Stats: Brown and Marks on "Empirical Social Science at Disney Research"

We hope you can join us this Wednesday, November 2, 2011 for the Applied Statistics Workshop. Amber Brown, Senior Research Scientist at Disney Research, and Joe Marks, Vice President and Fellow of Disney Research, will give a talk entitled "Empirical Social Science at Disney Research". A light lunch will be served at 12 pm and the talk will begin at 12.15.

"Empirical Social Science at Disney Research"
Amber Brown...

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App Stats: Nielsen on "Comparative Effectiveness of Matching Methods for Causal Inference"

We hope you can join us this Wednesday, October 26, 2011 for the Applied Statistics Workshop. Rich Nielsen, a Ph.D. candidate from the Department of Government at Harvard University, will present a paper entitled "Comparative Effectiveness of Matching Methods for Causal Inference". A light lunch will be served at 12 pm and the talk will begin at 12.15.

"Comparative...

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App Stats: Weihua An on "Peer Effects on Adolescent Smoking and Social Network-Based Interventions"

We hope you can join us this Wednesday, October 19, 2011 for the Applied Statistics Workshop. Weihua An, a Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at Harvard University, will present his dissertation entitled "Peer Effects on Adolescent Smoking and Social Network-Based Interventions". A light lunch will be served at 12 pm and the talk will begin at 12.15.

"Peer Effects on Adolescent Smoking and Social Network-Based...

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App Stats: Weissman on "From Fourier to Forensics"

We hope you can join us this Wednesday, October 12, 2011 for the Applied Statistics Workshop. Michael Weissman, a Professor Emeritus from the Physics Department at the University of Illinois, will give a presentation entitled "From Fourier to Forensics". A light lunch will be served at 12 pm and the talk will begin at 12.15.

"From Fourier to Forensics"
Michael Weissman
Government Department, Harvard...

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App Stats: Liublinska on "Addressing missing data issues in a study with rare binary outcomes constrained by a small sample size"

We hope you can join us this Wednesday, October 5, 2011 for the Applied Statistics Workshop. Victoria Liublinska, a Ph.D. candidate from the Statistics Department at Harvard University, will present a paper entitled "Addressing missing data issues in a study with rare binary outcomes constrained by a small sample size". A light lunch will be served at 12 pm and the talk will begin at 12.15.

"Addressing missing data issues in a study with rare binary outcomes constrained by a small...

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