We are very happy to announce a series of new OCBE biostatistics seminars, with the first to be held on Thursday, March 23rd, at 14:30-15:30 in Auditorium 13 (Domus Medica, Oslo).
Speaker: Johan Pensar, Associate Professor at the Department of Mathematics, University of Oslo
Title: Causal Inference with Graphical Models
Abstract: Understanding the behaviour of a system under the influence of interventions is the ultimate goal of many scientific studies. While such causal relationships are ideally inferred from interventional data (obtained through controlled experiments), in many applications one has only access to data that has been obtained by passively observing the system. Hence, there has lately been a growing interest in machine learning methods for inferring causal relationships from observational data given certain assumptions. In this talk, I will present the idea of using causal graphical models as the underlying framework for approaching this problem. More specifically, I will focus on a particular type of method that combines structure learning and causal calculus in order to produce causal effect estimates under an unknown causal structure. In particular, I will present some of our recent work where we adopt this approach to a Bayesian setting in order to better account for the uncertainty in the inference procedure.
The OCBE biostatistics seminar series is organized by the Oslo Centre for Biostatistics and Epidemiology and is an arena for presenting new interesting work in biostatistics, both on the methodological and applied side, from researchers in Oslo, from Norway and abroad.
See also: https://www.med.uio.no/imb/english/research/centres/ocbe/events/biostat-seminar/
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Other upcoming seminars:
April 27th, 2023: William Denault, OCBE
May 25th, 2023: TBD
June 15ht, 2023: Susanne Strohmaier, Medical University of Vienna, Austria
Welcome!
Best wishes,
Jon Michael Gran, Valeria Vitelli and Manuela Zucknick
Oslo Centre for Biostatistics and Epidemiology,
Department of Biostatistics, University of Oslo, Norway
