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3 December 2019, Statistical Inference Workshop

Date: Tuesday 3 December 2019
Time: 14:00-18:00
Location: Room F2.01, ILLC, Science Park 107, Amsterdam
Target audience: philosophers of science, scientists interested in causal inference, PhD students
Costs: free

The workshop focuses on philosophical and methodological problems connected to causal inference. The topics covered by participants range from econometric modeling to medical research.
All the participants are welcome but please register by sending an email to Mariusz Maziarz at .

Programme

14.00-14.10 The start of the session

14.10-14.55 Sebastian Køhlert (ILLC): How Empirical is Empirical Modelling Really? On Probabilism in Econometrics

14.55-15.40 Dean McHugh (University of Amsterdam) ‘Actual causation in dynamical systems’.

15.40-16.00 Coffee break

16.00-16.45 Mariusz Maziarz (Jagiellonian University):How to make inferences from inconsistent empirical results?

16.45-17.30 Jan-Willem Romeijn (University of Groningen): Shrinking and extremizing: two studies in meta-analysis

17.30-18.00 Discussion

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