Dear friends in UAI,
Some of you may be interested in the 2-day seminar
on Causal Inference (below) that I plan to offer
(with S. Greenland) at UCLA, in January. The material will be
roughly the same as that covered in my tutorial at
UAI-2001, except that I will now have two days, instead
of 1.5 hour, to discuss related technical/methodological points
and to answer the many questions you probably wished to ask.
General information is given in the announcement below,
For more details, send an E-mail to StatLit@mn.rr.com.
Hoping to answer all your questions in January,
==========Judea
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Judea Pearl and Sander Greenland Two-Day Seminar at UCLA on Statistical
Associations and Causal Connections, January 10-11, 2002
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This conference is sponsored by the UCLA Department of Statistics and by
the Statistical Literacy Project, funded by the W. M. Keck Foundation.
It will focus on causal inference in statistically-based
sciences. Dr. Pearl will discuss the Renaissance that is taking place in
using statistical associations to provide evidence for causal connections.
He will demonstrate how simple mathematical tools can be used for this
task, and will provide a gentle introduction to applying his methods in
various fields including business, epidemiology, social sciences and
economics. Special emphasis will be placed on the paradigmatic shifts that
must be undertaken in moving from traditional statistical analysis to
causal analysis of multivariate data and on the assumptions that underlie
all causal inferences. Dr. Sander Greenland will present his experience in
teaching this material. To request additional information be sent to you
by E-mail when available (including a web link for additional information),
send an E-mail to StatLit@mn.rr.com.
Dr. Judea Pearl is Professor of Computer Science and Statistics
at UCLA, and the author of "Causality" (Cambridge University Press,
2000).
Dr. Sander Greenland,
Professor in the Department of Epidemiology, teaches "Logic, Causation
and Probability" and "Statistical Modeling in Epidemiology".
He is a Fellow of the ASA and a co-author (with K. Rothman)
of "Modern Epidemiology" (1998).
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