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App Stats: Roberts, Stewart, and Tingley on "Topic models for open ended survey responses with applications to experiments"

April 29, 2013

We hope you can join us this Wednesday, May 1, 2013 for the Applied Statistics Workshop. Molly Roberts, Brandon Stewart, and Dustin Tingley, all from the Department of Government at Harvard University, will give a presentation entitled "Topic models for...

App Stats: Vadhan on "Privacy Tools for Sharing Research Data"

April 22, 2013

We hope you can join us this Wednesday, April 24, 2013 for the Applied Statistics Workshop. Salil Vadhan, Professor of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics from the School of Engineering & Applied Sciences at Harvard University, will give a...

Guest Post by Patrick Lam on "Estimating Individual Causal Effects"

April 16, 2013

Last week, I gave the applied statistics talk at IQSS on some of my research on estimating individual causal effects. Since there was some interest from folks who could not attend, I thought I would give a brief overview of my argument and research. In...

App Stats: Pakes on "Moment Inequalities for Semiparametric Multinomial Choice with Fixed Effects"

April 15, 2013

We hope you can join us this Wednesday, April 17, 2013 for the Applied Statistics Workshop. Ariel Pakes, Professor of Economics from the Department of Economics at Harvard University, will give a presentation entitled "Moment Inequalities for...

App Stats: Lam on "Estimating Individual Causal Effects"

April 08, 2013

We hope you can join us this Wednesday, April 10, 2013 for the Applied Statistics Workshop. Patrick Lam, a Ph.D. candidate from the Department of Government at Harvard University, will give a presentation entitled "Estimating Individual Causal Effects". A...

App Stats: Killewald on "His Gain, Her Pain? The Motherhood Penalty and the Fatherhood Premium within Coresidential Couples"

April 01, 2013

We hope you can join us this Wednesday, April 3, 2013 for the Applied Statistics Workshop. Sasha Killewald, Assistant Professor of Sociology at Harvard University, will give a presentation entitled "His Gain, Her Pain? The Motherhood Penalty and the...

App Stats: Fowler and Hall on "Do Legislators Cater to the Priorities of Their Constituents?"

March 25, 2013

We hope you can join us this Wednesday, March 27, 2013 for the Applied Statistics Workshop. Anthony Fowler and Andrew B. Hall, Ph.D. Candidates from the Department of Government at Harvard University, will give a presentation entitled "Do Legislators...

App Stats: Chamberlain on "Predictive Effects of Teachers and Schools on Test Scores, College Attendance, and Earnings"

March 11, 2013

We hope you can join us this Wednesday, March 13, 2013 for the Applied Statistics Workshop. Gary Chamberlain, Louis Berkman Professor of Economics from the Department of Economics at Harvard University, will give a presentation entitled "Predictive...

App Stats: Goodman on "Seeing More in Data"

March 04, 2013

We hope you can join us this Wednesday, March 6, 2013 for the Applied Statistics Workshop. Alyssa Goodman, a Professor of Astronomy from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics at Harvard University, will give a presentation entitled "Seeing More...

App Stats: Mozaffarian on "Estimating the Global Impact of Poor Dietary Habits on Chronic Diseases"

February 26, 2013

We hope you can join us this Wednesday, February 27, 2013 for the Applied Statistics Workshop. Dariush Mozaffarian, Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health, will give a presentation entitled "Estimating...

App Stats: Mozaffarian on "Estimating the Global Impact of Poor Dietary Habits on Chronic Diseases"

February 26, 2013

We hope you can join us this Wednesday, February 27, 2013 for the Applied Statistics Workshop. Dariush Mozaffarian, Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health, will give a presentation entitled "Estimating...

App Stats: Garcia on "When and Why is Attrition a Problem in Randomized Controlled Experiments and How to Diagnose It"

February 18, 2013

We hope you can join us this Wednesday, February 20, 2013 for the Applied Statistics Workshop. Fernando Martel Garcia, a Research Fellow at the Harvard School of Public Health, will give a presentation entitled "When and Why is Attrition a Problem in...