2016 Atlantic Causal Inference Conference

Jennifer Hill writes:

Registration for the 2016 Atlantic Causal Inference Conference is now live.

Stay tuned for short course registration (free for conference participants) and an announcement regarding a causal inference data analysis competition…both coming soon!

Also please consider signing up to give a lightning talk (link on website).

The conference will be held 26-27 May in NYC, and I strongly recommend it.

18 thoughts on “2016 Atlantic Causal Inference Conference

  1. Sounds fantastic. Would love to see a black-box treatment effects inference competition. (Not a believer in black-box techniques, but it would be interesting).

  2. I have two related questions: If a thousand groups submit a response (an answer) to the black box treatment effects competition then some response has to be the best, even if it is not a particularly good (small error from the truth) response. How does one differentiate the best response from a lucky random causal discovery algorithm (that is, there is an infinite number of random model selection algorithms, some fraction of which will construct a model close to the truth)?. Second, and relatedly, how does one determine if the winner wasn’t just lucky in that the winning causal discovery algorithm worked pretty well with the contest data but it would work less well (relative to other competing causal discovery algorithms) with different data.

  3. Hi,

    I noticed that the conference is sold out. Is there a waitlist for students who will like to attend the conference, in case someone else is unable to attend?

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