SORA / TABA 2016 Schedule

Friday May 6th - 2016



Time

Room HS 610 (6th floor)

08:30-09:15

 Registration and Breakfast

09:15-09:30

 Welcoming Remarks

Janet McDougall, Ruth Croxford, Hanna Jankowski, Olli Saarela

Introduction

Michael Escobar

09:30-10:45

 Causality, confounding, and counterfactuals: An overview of the conceptual framework

David A. Stephens and Erica E. M. Moodie

10:45:11:00

 Coffee Break

11:00-12:30

 Balancing and adjustment: the propensity score approach

David A. Stephens

12:30-14:00

Networking Lunch

Career Advice Panel

13:00-14:00

 Poster Presentation

14:00-15:15

 The use of propensity score in regression and weighting approaches to estimation

David A. Stephens

15:15-15:30

 Coffee Break

15:30-16:30

 Marginal effects for time-fixed treatments: model construction and checking

Erica E. M. Moodie

16:30-17:00

 Marginal effects for time-varying treatments: the marginal structural model

Erica E. M. Moodie

17:00-17:15

 Award presentation & Closing Remarks

17:15-18:15

 SORA Annual General Meeting

Hanna Jankowski, Hugh McCague

18:15-20:00

 Networking Dinner

(Optional, pay for your own)