PRIISM
CENTER FOR THE PROMOTION OF RESEARCH INVOLVING
INNOVATIVE STATISTICAL METHODOLOGY
Atlantic Causal Inference Conference
May 20-21, 2010
New York University Kimmel Center
60 Washington Square South, Room 914
Conference Organizer:
Jennifer Hill, New York University
Session Organizers:
Jack Buckley, New York University
Miguel Hernan, Harvard University
Marshall Joffe, University of Pennsylvania
James Robins, Harvard University
Jason Roy, University of Pennsylvania
Jasjeet Sekhon, University of California, Berkeley
Dylan S. Small, University of Pennsylvania
Special thanks to Jonathan Winters
Thursday, May 20
9:00 ‐ 9:45 Registration and continental breakfast 9:45 ‐ 10:00 Welcoming remarks Jennifer Hill, Conference Organizer 10:00 ‐ 11:45 Topics in Causal Inference Organizer: Jack Buckley, New York University “Causal Effects of Immutable Characteristics ” James Greiner, Harvard University “Causal Inference by Manipulation without Reductionism: Reconsidering a Dogma of Empiricism ” Jasjeet Sekhon, University of California, Berkeley “Randomization inference with the Peters‐Belson method “ Ben B. Hansen, University of Michigan 11:45 ‐ 1:15 Lunch (food served in 912) 1:15 ‐ 3:30 Case Study Organizers: Miguel Hernán and James Robins, Harvard University “When to start antiretroviral therapy? Using observational data to compare the effects of dynamic treatment regimes” Timothy Wilkin, Cornell University Lauren Cain, Harvard University James Robins, Harvard University 3:30 ‐ 3:45 Coffee Break 3:45 ‐ 5:30 Sensitivity Analysis Organizer: Dylan Small, University of Pennsylvania “Design sensitivity and efficiency in observational studies” Paul Rosenbaum, University of Pennsylvania “Eliciting a Counterfactual Sensitivity Parameter” Bryan Shepherd, Vanderbilt University “The sensitivity of linear regression coefficients' confidence limits to the omission of a confounder” Carrie Hosman, University of Michigan 5:30 ‐ 6:30 Poster Session and Happy Hour Reception Location: Kimmel Hall, 400 series Posters presented by: Mike Baiocchi, Tom Greene, Susan Gruber, Holger Kern, Winston Lin, Fernando Martel Garcia, Hui Nie, Kristin Porter, Pengyuan Wang, Dan Yang, Kai Zhang Friday, May 21
9:00 ‐ 9:30 Breakfast and Registration 9:30 ‐ 11:15 Topics in Causal Inference Organizer: Jasjeet Sekhon University of California, Berkeley “Robust Inference for Semiparametric Estimators ” Matias Cattaneo, University of Michigan “Adaptive Designs for Observational Studies: Changing the Population Sampled Based on Interim Data” Michael Rosenblum, Johns Hopkins University “Experimental Idenification of Causal Mechanisms“ Kosuke Imai, Princeton University 11:00 ‐ 12:30 Plenary talk “Causal Inference ‐‐ Logical Foundation and New Results” Judea Pearl, University of California in Los Angeles 12:30 ‐ 1:45 Lunch (food served in 912) 1:45 ‐ 3:30 Panel Discussion Organizer and Discussant: Marshall Joffe, University of Pennsylvania “Mission impossible? Characterizing the causal effects of nonmanipulable variables ” Miguel Hernan, Harvard University Constantine Frangakis, Johns Hopkins University Mark van der Laan, University of California at Berkeley 3:30 ‐ 3:45 Coffee Break 3:45 ‐ 5:30 Statistical Methods for Comparative Effectiveness Research Organizer: Jason Roy “Causal Comparison of current glycemic control practices in type 2 diabe‐
tes ‐ An approach based on dynamic marginal structural models” Romain Neugebauer, Kaiser Permanente “Accuracy and precision of causal inference with two‐stage logistic re‐
gression” Bing Cai, Merck “Comparative Effectiveness Research: The Role of Research Synthesis” Joel Greenhouse, Johns Hopkins University Directions DIRECTIONS
New York University's Kimmel Center (the location of the Conference) is located at 60 Washington
Square Park South on the island and borough of Manhattan in the neighborhood called Greenwich
Village. Below are directions for getting to NYU's Washington Square Park.
By Plane
From La Guardia, Kennedy, or Newark Airport, take the airport shuttle bus to Port Authority Bus
Terminal or Grand Central Station. From Port Authority, take the A or E subway downtown to West
Fourth Street-Washington Square Station, or from Grand Central, take the Lexington Avenue subway (No. 6 train) downtown to Astor Place Station. Cabs and car services are available at the airport
and, even though they cost more, they are your best bet if you have a lot of luggage.
By Train
Metro North into Grand Central Station
Take the Lexington Avenue subway (No. 6 train) downtown to Astor Place Station. Go west on Astor Place to Broadway. Walk south on Broadway to Waverly Place. Walk westward on Waverly
Place until you reach Washington Square.
Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) and Amtrak into Pennsylvania Station
Take the 8th avenue subway (A and E trains) downtown to West Fourth Street-Washington Square
Station. Walk east on West Fourth Street until you reach Washington Square.
PATH Trains from New Jersey to Ninth Street Station (Sixth Avenue and Ninth Street)
Then walk south to West Fourth Street and east to Washington Square.
By Bus
All Greyhound and New Jersey Transit buses go to the Port Authority Terminal. Port Authority marine terminals in New York and New Jersey are open and operating normally. From there, take the
Eighth Avenue subway downtown (see By Subway below).
By Subway
Take the Lexington Avenue subway (No. 6 train) to Astor Place Station. Go west on Astor Place to
Broadway. Walk south on Broadway to Waverly Place. Walk westward on Waverly Place until you
reach Washington Square.
Take the Broadway subway (R or W train) to Eighth Street Station. At Broadway walk south to
Waverly Place. Walk westward on Waverly Place until you reach Washington Square.
Take the Sixth Avenue subway to West Fourth Street-Washington Square Station (A, C, E, B, D, F,
or V train). Walk east on West Fourth Street until you reach Washington Square.
Local area/History Kimmel Center
60 Washington Square South
Room 914
History of the conference In June 2005 a small group from the Department of Statistics at Columbia Univer‐
sity convened a “miniconference on causal inference” which consisted of “six talks and lots of discussion.” On the original conference website, in addition to the six speakers, twelve participants are listed. Since then the conference has grown into an annual tradition, attracting an audience more than six times larger than the original. The conference has also become less strictly regional — though is still has Atlantic in the title we now have a substantial constituencies from Michigan and Berkeley (among others). The 2010 Atlantic Causal Inference Conference, hosted by the PRIISM Center at New York University, will be the largest and, we hope, the most successful incarnation yet. 8th Street Wine Cellar
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