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2004-05
Program on
Latent Variables in the Social Sciences (LVSS)
Symposium on Causality
March 29, 2005
Room FG, 3rd Floor
Radisson Hotel Research Triangle Park
GENERAL INFORMATION
Controversy surrounds the idea of causality in statistical modeling. The definitions of causality vary as do beliefs about the applicability of causality in observational data or in the presence of latent variables. These afternoon seminars and discussions explore the meaning of causality through presentations by a sociologist, a philosopher, and a biostatistician. Clark Glymour (Department of Philosophy, Carnegie-Mellon), Jamie Robins (Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Harvard University), and Chris Winship (Department of Sociology, Harvard University) have each made major contributions to the causality and statistics literature. Each will provide a one hour presentation followed by a question and answer period.
There is no fee to attend, but we require those who would like to attend to RSVP, to
[email protected].
SCHEDULE
| 1:00-2:00 PM |
"Counterfactual Causal Models: An Overview" Chris Winship, Harvard University
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| 2:00-2:20 PM |
Discussion
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| 2:20-2:40 PM |
Break
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| 2:40-3:40 PM |
"How to Discover Causal Relations among Unobserved Variables" Clark Glymour, Carnegie Mellon University
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| 3:40-4:00 PM |
Discussion
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| 4:00-4:30 PM |
Break
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| 4:30-5:30 PM |
SAMSI Distinguished Lecture "Optimal Sequential Decisons and Causal Inference" James Robins, Harvard University
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| 5:30-5:45 PM |
Discussion
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| 5:45-6:15 PM |
Reception
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