Causal Analysis in Theory and Practice

June 28, 2009

Joint Statistical Meetings 2009

Filed under: Announcement,Book (J Pearl),JSM — moderator @ 10:00 am

Tutorial
Judea Pearl will be presenting a tutorial at the JSM meeting (Washington, DC August 5, 2009 from 2-4pm) on "Causal Analysis in Statistics: A Gentle Introduction"

Additional information about the session may be obtained by clicking here.

Book Signing
Just before the tutorial at 12 noon, there will be a book-signing gathering at the Cambridge University Press booth, where J. Pearl will be signing copies of the 2nd Edition of Causality and will engage in gossip and debates about where causality is heading.

June 27, 2009

Effects of Treatment on the Treated: Identification and Generalization

Filed under: Counterfactual — moderator @ 4:00 am

Ilya Shpitser and Judea Pearl recently presented an article at the UAI conference which offers a solution to the (counterfactual) problem of evaluating the Effect of Treatment on the Treated.

The article may be viewed here: http://ftp.cs.ucla.edu/pub/stat_ser/r349.pdf

June 26, 2009

Forbes: Giving Computers Free Will

Filed under: Discussion,General,Opinion — judea @ 6:00 pm

Judea Pearl recently contributed a popular article on recent progress in causal analysis. You may view the article using the link below:

http://www.forbes.com/2009/06/18/computers-free-will-opinions-contributors-artificial-intelligence-09-judea-pearl.html

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