2026 Lab Seminar

Paper reviews

  • Multiple randomization designs: Estimation and inference with interference (Masoero et al., 2025)
  • A nonparametric framework for treatment effect modifier discovery in high dimensions (Boileau et al., 2025)
  • Alleviating the quantum Big-M problem (Alessandroni et al., 2025)
  • Balancing weights for causal inference in observational factorial studies (Yu and Ding, 2026)
  • Hilbert space embeddings and metrics on probability measures (Sriperumbudur et al., 2010)
  • Kernel mean embedding of distributions: A review and beyond (Muandet et al., 2017)
  • Computational optimal transport (Peyré and Cuturi, 2019) [Ch1]
  • Quantifying distributional model risk via optimal transport (Blanchet and Murthy, 2019)
  • Stochastic gradient methods for distributionally robust optimization with f-divergences (Namkoong and Duchi, 2016)

2025 Lab Seminar

Paper reviews

  • Causal fairness analysis (Plečko and Bareinboim, 2024) [Ch1-Ch5]
  • Covariate-adaptive randomization inference in matched designs (Pimentel and Huang, 2024)
  • Sensitivity analysis for attributable effects in Case2 studies (Kan et al., 2024)
  • Conformal inference of counterfactuals and individual treatment effects (Lei, Robins and Wasserman, 2021)
  • Testing generalizability in causal inference (Manela, Athey and Imbens, 2024)
  • The nudge average treatment effect (Tchetgen Tchetgen, 2024)
  • Long story short: omitted variable bias in causal machine learning (Chernozhukov, Cinelli and Newey, 2022)
  • Transfer learning between U.S. presidential elections: how should we learn from a 2020 ad campaign to inform 2024 ad campaigns? (Miao et al., 2024)
  • Causal inference on distribution functions (Lin, Kong and Wang, 2023)
  • Game-theoretic statistics and safe anytime-valid inference (Ramdas et al., 2023)

Book review

  • High-dimensional Statistics: A Non-Asymptotic Viewpoint (Martin J. Wainwright, 2019)
  • Hypothesis testing with e-values (Ramdas and Wang, 2025)

2023-24 Lab Seminar

Paper reviews

  • Probabilities of causation: three counterfactual interpretations and their identification (Pearl, 1999)
  • Sensitivity analysis for matched observational studies with continuous exposures and binary outcomes (Zhang, Small and Rosenbaum, 2011)
  • Robust estimation of causal effects via a high-dimensional covariate balancing propensity score (Ning, Peng and Imai, 2020)
  • Can we reliably detect biases that matter in observational studies? (Rosenbaum, 2023)
  • Semiparametric efficiency gains from parametric restrictions on propensity scores (Kono, 2024)
  • Estimation based on nearest neighbor matching: from density ratio to average treatment effect (Lin, 2023)
  • Causal inference methods for combining randomized trials and observational studies: a review (Colnet, Johansson and Stoye, 2024)
  • Multiple conditional randomization tests for lagged and spillover treatment effects (Zhang and Zhao, 2024)
  • Estimating causal effects under non-individualistic treatments due to network entanglement (Toulis, Kao and Airoldi, 2021)
  • Bias-sample empirical likelihood weighting for the missing data problem (Liu and Fan, 2023)
  • Causal inference in survival analysis under deterministic missingness of confounders in register data (Andersson, 2022)
  • Evidence factors from multiple, possibly invalid, instrumental variables (Zhao, Wang and Small, 2022)
  • Finding influential subjects in a network using a causal framework (Lee, Kim and Wang, 2023)
  • Neural score matching for high-dimensional causal inference (Clivio, Mikkelsen and van der Laan, 2022)
  • Mendelian randomization
  • Influence function and efficiency theory

Book review

  • Handbook of Matching and Weighting Adjustments for Causal Inference (José R. Zubizarreta, Elizabeth A. Stuart, Dylan S. Small, Paul R. Rosenbaum, 2023)
  • Causal Inference: What If (Miguel A. Hernán & James M. Robins, 2020)

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