Causal Analysis and Policy Assessment with Bayesian Networks and BayesiaLab
Date and time
Location
North Carolina Biotechnology Center
15 T W Alexander Dr Dogwood Room Research Triangle Park, NC 27709Description
A Free 2-Hour Workshop on Causality for Policy Analysts and Researchers
The objective of this workshop is to provide a practical framework for better policy assessment and impact analysis. The proposed approach includes Directed Acyclic Graphs and Bayesian networks. This approach is meant to help overcome researchers’ common challenges with regard to causality in policy analysis.
Date and Location
February 3, 2015, 3:00pm-5:00pm
Dogwood Room
15 TW Alexander Drive
Research Triangle Park, NC 27709
Our course venue is located just 10 minutes from the Raleigh-Durham International Airport (RDU).
Workshop Overview
What is Policy Analysis?
Causal Inference by Experiment
Causal Inference from Data plus Theory
Causal Effect Identification
Computing the Effect Size Nonparametrically
Jouffe's Likelihood Matching
Managing Uncertainty Probabilistically with Bayesian Networks
Who should attend?
Policy analysts, decision makers, policy consultants, applied researchers, statisticians, social scientists, data scientists, ecologists, epidemiologists, econometricians, economists, market researchers, knowledge managers, students and teachers in related fields.