Robustly Estimating Heterogeneity in Factorial Data Using Rashomon Partitions |
Tyler McCormick, Professor, Statistics & Sociology, University of Washington |
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Concordia: Advancing the Cooperative Intelligence of Language Agents |
Minsuk Chang, Research Scientist, Google Deepmind |
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Does AI Help Humans Make Better Decisions? A Statistical Evaluation Framework for Experimental and Observational Studies |
Eli Ben-Michael, Assistant Professor of Statistics and Public Policy |
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Gender Divergence in the Values Around Cohabitation in China: A Tale of “Two Generations” |
June Yang, Research Scientist, CSDE and eScience Institute |
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CS&SS Open House - Ask Me Anything |
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Close: An Interactive, Multi-Modal Travel Time Map |
Nat Henry, Henry Spatial Analysis |
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Polygenic Risk Scores for The Management of Common Chronic Conditions: The Latest Genetic Hammer in Search of a Nail? |
Malia Fullerton, Bioethics & Humanities, UW |
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Providing the pieces to the puzzle: Translating population, mortality burden, and effectiveness to potential impact of mass drug administration of antibiotics on child mortality |
Anu Mishra, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation |
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Uncertainty Quantification and Calibration in Language Models |
Karl Pazdernik, Senior Data Scientist, PNNL |
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Ideological Segregation in a Politically Diverse Community: Evidence from China |
Dafeng Xu, Evans School of Public Policy and Governance, UW |
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Opening Microsoft Data for Social Good: privacy-preserving technologies unlocking powerful social insights |
Mayana Pereira, Microsoft |
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The Landscape of Lawmaking |
John D. Wilkerson, Political Science, UW |
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Striking the Right Balance: Why Standard Balance Tests Over-Reject the Null, and How to Fix It |
Jason Kerwin, Economics, UW |
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Deconvolution in Networks, with Applications to Worker-Firm Data |
Stephane Bonhomme |
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The Promise and Peril of State Administrative Data: An Example from an Evaluation of Low-Barrier Buprenorphine Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder |
Jason R Williams |
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Project NEXUS: Methodology and Results from a Survey of Underrepresented People Who Use Drugs: 9 U.S. Syringe Services Programs |
Sara Glick |
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Kaylea Champion, Chin-Wei Chen, & Nathan Welch + Graduating Student Awards |
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A latent Markov model with two parallel processes for modeling inter-generational exchanges |
Irini Moustaki |
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A discussion on transitioning from academia to industry |
Stephanie Lee & Lynette Shaw |
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Data science with communities in the loop |
Madeleine Daepp |
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Can we change “ideal worker” norms? The impact of workplace policies, composition, and post-pandemic culture |
Elizabeth Hirsh |
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Gender, Deliberation, and Natural Resource Governance: Experimental Evidence from Malawi |
Amanda Clayton |
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What is driving low rates of childhood vaccination in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)? |
Roy Burstein |
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Sugared fruit drinks as a sociobehavioral determinant of health in Alaska Native communities |
Donald Chi |
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Homogenizing the High Street: the Economic Cleansing of Minority Elites through Fiscal Discrimination |
Asli Cansunar |
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Imputing Race and Ethnicity in State Administrative Data: Challenges and Future Directions |
Lizzy Pelletier |
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Am I redundant? How AI will shape the Future of Work |
Shamsi T. Iqbal |
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Probabilistic Subnational Population Projections |
Hana Sevcikova |
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Data Science, Machine Learning, and Responsible AI: CSSS and Careers in Tech |
Trey Causey |
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Do Inclusionary Zoning Policies Affect Local Housing Markets? An Empirical Study in the United States |
Vince Wang |
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Agent-based modeling in women’s health: Building Fpsim |
Michelle O'Brien |
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What if I only care about L1 X-Y relations? Clustered data analytic options |
Elizabeth Sanders |
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Potential Impacts of Mass Nutritional Supplementation on Measles Dynamics: A Simulation Study |
Navideh Noori |
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Numerators and Denominators in Health Disparities Research: What linked Electronic Health Record and American Community Survey Data Reveal |
Barbara Entwisle |
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Cartoons, Captions, and Confidence Intervals |
Lalit Jain |
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Bayesian Resolution of Discrepant Self-Reported Network Ties |
Krista Gile |
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Estimating Global and Country-Specific Excess Mortality by Age and Sex During the COVID-19 Pandemic |
Jon Wakefield |
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Exploring the Effects of Item-Specific Factors in Tree-Based Item Response Models |
Weicong Lyu |
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Very Long-Term Probabilistic Population Projections for Assessing the Social Cost of Carbon |
Adrian Raftery |
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Correcting for misclassification bias in cause-specific mortality estimates |
Abhi Datta, Johns Hopkins |
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How to think clearly about the central limit theorem |
Oscar Olvera Astivia |
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Inference on Winners |
Isaiah Andrews, Harvard |
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How Biased are Observational Methods in Practice? Accumulating Evidence Using Randomised Controlled Trials with Imperfect Compliance |
Gharad Bryan, LSE |
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CSSS Graduating PhD Student Highlights |
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Effect of an opt-out point-of-care HIV-1 nucleic acid testing intervention to detect acute and prevalent HIV infection in symptomatic adult outpatients and reduce HIV transmission in Kenya: The Tambua Mapema Plus Study |
Susan Graham |
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Regulating Ethics: The Status and Stakes of Institutional Ethical Review for the Social Sciences |
Rebecca Tapscott |
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Bayesian methods for inferring the history of languages [Virtual] |
Robin Ryder |
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When opportunity meets ability: The moderating effects of prolific inventors on novel drug innovation following product development failure in biotechnology [Hybrid] |
Amrita Lahiri |
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Opportunities in Everyday Technology Research for Children with Autism [Virtual Only] |
Frederick Shic |
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15 surgeons and 2 engineers: Adventures in "big" data and causal analyses to advance mobility for children with cerebral palsy [Hybrid] |
Kat Steele |
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"I will just have to keep driving": A Mixed-methods Investigation of Thai Motorcycle Rideshare Driver Responses to Poor Air Quality [Hybrid] |
Kurtis Heimerl |
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Disentangling confounding and nonsense associations due to dependence [Hybrid] |
Betsy Ogburn |
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Lessons being learned from an open-source causal AI suite [Hybrid] |
Emre Kiciman |
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Toss the bathwater, keep the baby: how p-values can still be useful |
Chloe Krakauer |
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Data analysis tools for statistical non-experts [Hybrid] |
Eunice Jun |
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Transforming Experimental Neural Functioning Variables into FDA Validated Biomarkers [Hybrid] |
Sara Jane Webb |
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Modeling Spatially Correlated Survival Data and their Applications [Hybrid] |
Prince Allotey, Statistics, University of Washington |
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Recasting the Debate on SARS-CoV-2 Origins in Bayesian Terms [Virtual Only] |
Tasha Fairfield, International Development, The London School of Economics and Political Science |
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The Benefits and Challenges of Large-Scale Studies that Rely on Mobile Technology: Lessons learned over 15 years [Virtual Only] |
Pat Areán, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington |
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Leading or following?: (non)correspondence between media and user frame networks on YouTube channels of right-wing news organizations [Hybrid] |
Yuan Hsiao, Communication, University of Washington |
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Generalized difference-in-differences models: Robust Bounds [Hybrid] |
Désiré Kédagni, Economics, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill |
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Randomized Regulation: The impact of minimum quality standards on health markets [Hybrid] |
Jishnu Das, McCourt School of Public Policy and the Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University |
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CSSS End-of-Year Ceremony and 2022-2023 Course Overview (Virtual Only) |
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Gendered Language |
Owen Ozier , Economics, Williams College |
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Quantifying Racial Bias in Policing with Imperfect Data |
Dean Knox, Statistics and Data Science, University of Pennsylvania |
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Two High-Profile Examples of Selection Bias (This Seminar is Virtual-Only) |
Qingyuan Zhao, Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics, University of Cambridge |
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Using Multitask Gaussian Processes to Estimate the Effect of a Targeted Effort to Remove Firearms |
Avi Feller, Public Policy and Statistics, University of California - Berkeley |
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The Effect of Income on Educational Outcomes: The Nonlinear and Heterogeneous Effects of a Continuous Treatment |
Ian Lundberg, Sociology, UCLA |
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Geometric Inference Via Graph Laplacians |
Dena Asta, Statistics, Ohio State University |
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Health Certification in Sex Markets: A Field Experiment in Dakar, Senegal |
Shanthi Manian, Economics, Washington State University |
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Non-Random Exposure to Exogenous Shocks |
Peter Hull, Economics, Brown University |
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Study Designs to Estimate Policy Effects: Applications to COVID-19 and Opioid Policies |
Elizabeth Stuart, Statistics, Johns Hopkins |
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Bridging Matching, Regression, and Weighting as Mathematical Programs for Causal Inference |
José R. Zubizarreta, Statistics, Harvard |
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Assessing Differences in Legislators’ Revealed Preferences: Testing Sharp Hypotheses in Latent Spaces |
Abel Rodriguez, Statistics, UW |
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Leaders' Role in Technology Adoption: Evidence from Mobile Banking in Ghana |
Emma Riley, Economics, UW |
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Total Causal Effects in MPDAGs: Identification and Minimal Enumeration |
Ema Perkovic, Statistics, UW |
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Racial Disparities in Mortality During the 1918 Influenza Pandemic in United States Cities |
Elizabeth Wrigley-Field, Sociology, University of Minnesota |
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Identifying the Latent Space Geometry of Network Models Through Analysis of Curvature |
Tyler McCormick , Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences, UW |
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Uncovering College Effect Heterogeneity |
Jennie Brand, Sociology, UCLA |
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Uniform Inference on Conditional Treatment Effects in Difference-in-Differences Designs |
Pedro Sant'Anna, Office of the Chief Economist, Microsoft |
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Black-White Disparities in National Institutes of Health Grant Review Scores |
Carole Lee, Philosophy, UW |
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No seminar |
First week of quarter |
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The Impact of U.S.-China Tensions on U.S. Science |
Molly Roberts, Political Science, UC San Diego |
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How parochial are we really? Matching methods to questions to better characterize human sociality |
Anne Pisor, Anthropology, Washington State University |
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No Seminar |
Day before Thanksgiving |
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Gender, Violence, and Triage: Complainant Identity and Criminal Justice in India |
Nirvikar Jassal, King Center on Global Development, Stanford |
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Technology and the State: Building Tax Capacity via Text |
Isabelle Cohen, Evans School, University of Washington |
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A cautionary note on the use of the third-order polynomial method in simulation studies |
Oscar Olvera Astivia, College of Education, University of Washington |
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Transparent and Robust Causal Inference in the Social and Health Sciences |
Carlos Cinelli, Statistics, University of Washington |
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Artificial Intelligence for Social Good: When Machines Learn Human-like Biases from Data |
Aylin Caliskan, Information School, University of Washington |
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You Said, They Said: A Framework on Informant Accuracy with Application to Studying Self-Reports and Peer-Reports of Adolescent Smoking |
Weihua An, Sociology, Emory University |
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Generic Machine Learning Inference on Heterogenous Treatment Effects in Randomized Experiments |
Victor Chernozhukov, Economics, MIT |
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No seminar |
First day of quarter |
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CSSS End-of-Year Ceremony and 2021-2022 Course Overview |
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Uncovering dehumanization with computational linguistics: a case study of LGBTQ representation in the New York Times |
Julia Mendelsohn (she/her), School of Information, University of Michigan |
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Policy Voting in Elections: Field Experimental Evidence from 12.8 Million Voters in 82 Congressional Districts |
Josh Kalla (Pronouns: He/Him/His), Political Science and Data Science, Assistant Professor, Yale University |
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Qualified Quantification & the Human Remains Trade: Computational Methods to See the People Behind the Price Tags |
Dr. Damien Huffer (pronouns: he/him/his), History, Carleton University, Ottowa, ON, Canada |
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Pattern graphs: a graphical approach to nonmonotone missing data |
Yen-Chi Chen, Assistant Professor, Statistics, University of Washington |
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No Seminar |
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CSSS End-of-Year Ceremony and 2020-2021 Course Preview |
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