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3 Jun 2024: Search. Teaching. Causal Inference (Part III, Michaelmas 2023). 16-lecture course on causal inference, the statistical science of drawing causal conclusions from experimental and non-experimental data. Causal Inference with Observational Data:

3 Jun 2024: Search. Students. Postdocs. Katarzyna Reluga: 2020–2021. Zijun Gao: 2022-2023. Ph.D. students. Matt Tudball (co-supervision): 2018–2023. Tobias Freidling: 2020–. Joakim Blach Andersen: 2021–. Max Zhu: 2022–. Undergraduate students. Etaash

3 Jun 2024: Search. Corpus. How infectious was COVID-19 when it first circulated in Wuhan?. This is given to A-level students. 2024. Powered by the Academic theme forCite.

3 Jun 2024: Search. Useful links. Maths & Stats. Tripos papers sorted by course. Research in the CMS for undergraduate students. You and Your Research by Richard Hamming. Computing. R Packages: Organize, Test, Document, and Share Your Code by Hadley Wickham. A

3 Jun 2024: Search. Qingyuan Zhao. University Associate Professor in Statistics. About. I am a University Associate Professor of Statistics in the Statistical Laboratory, Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics (DPMMS) at University of

3 Jun 2024: Search. Causal interpretations of black-box models. Qingyuan Zhao, Trevor Hastie. August 2016Abstract. We link Friedman’s partial dependence plot with Pearl’s backdoor adjustment formula. We discuss situations when possible causal

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3 Jun 2024: Search. Fisher. Discussion on (quasi-)randomization inference. The following is an email exchange with Hyunseung Kang on the nature of randomization inference. This was sparked by a couple of papers by David Freedman and David Lane: A Nonstochastic

3 Jun 2024: Search. BETS: The dangers of selection bias in early analyses of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. Qingyuan Zhao, Phyllis Ju, Sergio Bacallado, Rajen Shah. April 2020Abstract. We developed a generative model for key epidemiological events

3 Jun 2024: Search. Charles Zheng. Latest. Comment on 'Causal inference using invariant prediction'. 2024. Powered by the Academic theme forCite.

3 Jun 2024: Search. Permutation $p$-value approximation via generalized Stolarsky invariance. Hera Y He, Kinjal Basu, Qingyuan Zhao, Art B Owen. March 2016Abstract. This paper uses a generalized Stolarsky’s invariance principle to approximate the permutation

3 Jun 2024: Search. The cycle of statistical research. Abstract. More than fifty years ago, John Tukey first envisioned a field we now call “Data Science” (he called it “Data Analysis”) to replace academic statistics. George Box, who famously said

3 Jun 2024: Search. Bootstrapping sensitivity analysis. Date. 2020-08-03. Event. JSM 2020. Location. JSM 2020 (Virtual). 2024. Powered by the Academic theme forCite.

3 Jun 2024: Search. Paul Rosenbaum. Latest. Cross-screening in observational studies that test many hypotheses. 2024. Powered by the Academic theme forCite.

3 Jun 2024: Search. Simultaneous hypothesis testing using negative controls. Abstract. Negative control is a common technique in scientific investigations and broadly refers to the situation where a null effect (“negative result”) is expected. Motivated by

3 Jun 2024: Search. Multiple conditional randomization tests. Date. 2022-08-31 1:45 PM — 2:15 PM. Multiple Conference 2022. Location. Bremen, Germany. 2024. Powered by the Academic theme forCite.

3 Jun 2024: Search. Rachael Hughes. Latest. 2024. Powered by the Academic theme forCite.

3 Jun 2024: Search. Using Mendelian randomization to discover biological mechanisms. Date. 2023-08-10 —. Joint Statistical Meeting (2023). Location. Toronto, Canada. 2024. Powered by the Academic theme forCite.

3 Jun 2024: Search. Hyunseung Kang. Latest. 2024. Powered by the Academic theme forCite.

3 Jun 2024: Search. Confounder selection via iterative graph expansion. Date. 2023-09-17 12:00 AM — 12:00 AM. Pacific Causal Inference Conference. Location. Peking University, China. 2024. Powered by the Academic theme forCite.

3 Jun 2024: Search. What is a randomization test? Yao Zhang, Qingyuan Zhao. March 2022Abstract. The meaning of randomization tests has become obscure in statistics education and practice over the last century. This article makes a fresh attempt at rectifying

3 Jun 2024: Search. Fun-Posts. Amusing counterfactual inference (by words). My good friend Joshua Loftus and I spent some 30 minutes to crack (at least we think we did!) a counterfactual inference made in a speech in the House of Commons in London in 1850 by

3 Jun 2024: Search. Art Owen. Latest. Confounder adjustment in multiple hypothesis testing. 2024. Powered by the Academic theme forCite.

3 Jun 2024: Search. Tobias Freidling. Latest. 2024. Powered by the Academic theme forCite.

3 Jun 2024: Search. Katarzyna Reluga. Latest. A unified analysis of regression adjustment in randomized experiments. 2024. Powered by the Academic theme forCite.

3 Jun 2024: Search. F Richard Guo. Latest. 2024. Powered by the Academic theme forCite.

3 Jun 2024: Search. Jun Shao. Latest. 2024. Powered by the Academic theme forCite.

3 Jun 2024: Search. Wenjie Hu. Latest. A constructive approach to selective risk control. 2024. Powered by the Academic theme forCite.

3 Jun 2024: Search. Sergio Bacallado. Latest. 2024. Powered by the Academic theme forCite.

3 Jun 2024: Search. Weijie Su. Latest. Multiple testing when many $p$-values are uniformly conservative. 2024. Powered by the Academic theme forCite.

3 Jun 2024: Search. The randomization principle in causal inference: A modern look at some old ideas. Abstract. Randomization is a fundamental principle in causal inference and was first proposed by R A Fisher about a century ago. Although randomization has now

3 Jun 2024: Search. Two High-Profile Examples of Selection Bias. Abstract. This talk will examine the selection bias that occurred in studying some most contentious problems. In the first case study, we will look at the estimation of the growth rate and

3 Jun 2024: Search. Eleanor Sanderson. Latest. Mendelian randomization. 2024. Powered by the Academic theme forCite.

3 Jun 2024: Search. Zhen Miao. Latest. A Mendelian randomization study of the role of lipoprotein subfractions in coronary artery disease. 2024. Powered by the Academic theme forCite.

3 Jun 2024: Search. Design: The Elusive Principle of Statistics. Date. 2024-03-07 1:00 PM — 2:00 PM. Location. University of Oxford. 2024. Powered by the Academic theme forCite.

3 Jun 2024: Search. Zijun Gao. Latest. 2024. Powered by the Academic theme forCite.

3 Jun 2024: Search. Tom Palmer. Latest. Mendelian randomization. 2024. Powered by the Academic theme forCite.

3 Jun 2024: Search. Sensitivity Analysis with the $R2$-calculus. Tobias Freidling, Qingyuan Zhao. January 2023R$-sensitivity contours for the lower end of the estimated partially identified region. Abstract. Causal inference necessarily relies upon untestable

3 Jun 2024: Search. Estimation and prediction in sparse and unbalanced tables. Qingyuan Zhao, Trevor Hastie, Daryl Pregibon. March 2017Abstract. When there is a multi-way table where each dimension has large number of levels, it is computationally intensive to

3 Jun 2024: Search. Phyllis Ju. Latest. BETS: The dangers of selection bias in early analyses of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. 2024. Powered by the Academic theme forCite.

3 Jun 2024: Search. Rajen Shah. Latest. BETS: The dangers of selection bias in early analyses of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. 2024. Powered by the Academic theme forCite.

3 Jun 2024: Search. Yang Jiang. Latest. ivmodel: An R package for inference and sensitivity analysis of instrumental variables models with one endogenous variable. 2024. Powered by the Academic theme forCite.

3 Jun 2024: Search. Causal inference for heritable phenotypic risk factors using heterogeneous genetic instruments. Jingshu Wang, Qingyuan Zhao, Jack Bowden, Gibran Hemani, George Davey Smith, Dylan Small, Nancy Zhang. May 2020Abstract. We greatly improve the

3 Jun 2024: Search. Murat A Erdogdu. Latest. SEISMIC: A self-exciting point process model for predicting tweet popularity. 2024. Powered by the Academic theme forCite.

3 Jun 2024: Search. Reliable Inference for Precision Medicine. Abstract. Two central objectives of individualized treatment are precision and optimality. A third objective is robustness, and this talk aims to explore what could happen if we account for

3 Jun 2024: Search. Mendelian randomization: Old and new insights. Abstract. Mendelian randomization (MR) is a method for causal inference that utilizes the natural experiment in genetic inheritance. The idea of MR can be traced back to the dawn of modern

3 Jun 2024: Search. Luke Keele. Latest. 2024. Powered by the Academic theme forCite.

3 Jun 2024: Search. Randomization (project page). 2022-04-22. A related page isRelated. Publications. Selective Randomization Inference for Adaptive Experiments. We apply ideas from post-selection inference to randomization tests for adaptive experiments.

3 Jun 2024: Search. Graphical diagnosis of confounding bias in instrumental variables analysis. Qingyuan Zhao, Dylan Small. May 2018Abstract. This research letter proposes a new diagnostic plot for IV analysis, so large bias ratios (compared to OLS estimator)

3 Jun 2024: Search. Improving the accuracy of two-sample summary data Mendelian randomization: moving beyond the NOME assumption. Jack Bowden, Fabiola Del Greco M, Cosetta Minelli, Debbie Lawlor, Qingyuan Zhao, Nuala Sheehan, John Thompson, George Davey Smith.