Joint Meeting of the
Social Statistics Section & General Applications Section
Wednesday 27 May 2009
10.30am to 5.00 pm
at the Society, 12 Errol Street, London, EC1Y 8LX.
CAUSALITY IN STATISTICAL INVESTIGATIONS
10.30-11.00: Registration & Coffee
11.00-11.10: Welcome
11.10-11.50: Paul Clarke (CMPO, University of Bristol)
Instrumental variable estimation for binary outcomes
11.50-12.30: Máire Ní Bhrolcháin (Souhampton University) & Tim Dyson (LSE)
Causal criteria for aggregate change in demography: issues and
illustrations
12.30- 13.30: LUNCH
13.30-14.20: Miguel A. Hernán ( Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School
of Public Health)
What was your question again? The perils of using
observational data to answer
questions other than the one you wish to ask
14.20-15.00: Jouni Kuha (LSE) & John Goldthorpe (Nuffield College, Oxford)
Path analysis for discrete variables: The role of education in
social mobility
15.00-15.30: TEA AND REFRESHMENTS
15.30-16.05: Sara Geneletti (Division of Epidemiology, Imperial College,
London) &
Gary Frost (Division of Investigative Science, Imperial
College, London)
Causal evaluation of lifestyle intervention trials: The
Counterweight Project
16.05-16.40: Barbara Sianesi (Institute for Fiscal Studies)
Propensity score matching and causal inference
16.40-17.00: Discussion
Full ABSTRACTS may be viewed on the Centre for Multilevel Modelling website
http://www.cmm.bristol.ac.uk/MLwiN/tech-support/workshops/index.shtml#external
or in brief on the RSS website at www.rss.org.uk/events.
There will be a fee for the meeting: Retired/Student/EDA Fellows £30,
Cstats/GradStats £35, Fellows £40, Linked Associates £50, None of the
above,£65. All are welcome but advance registration is required. Please use
the registration form at www.rss.org.uk/events to book your place, or e-mail
[log in to unmask] Contacts for the meeting are Professor Antony
Fielding ([log in to unmask]) or Dr Jouni Kuha ([log in to unmask])
