Econometric Sense

An attempt to make sense of econometrics, biostatistics, machine learning, experimental design, bioinformatics, ....

Wednesday, February 12, 2020

Randomized Encouragement: When noncompliance may be a feature and not a bug

Many times in a randomized controlled trial (RCT) issues related to non-compliance arise. Subjects assigned to the treatment fail to comply,...

Monday, December 16, 2019

Some Recommended Podcasts and Episodes on AI and Machine Learning

Something I have been interested in for some time now is both is the convergence of big data and genomics and the convergence of causal infe...

Wednesday, December 11, 2019

When Wicked Problems Meet Biased Data

In "Dissecting racial bias in an algorithm used to manage the health of populations" (Science, Vol 366 25 Oct. 2019) the authors d...

Monday, September 30, 2019

Wicked Problems and The Role of Expertise and AI in Data Science

In 2018, an article in Science characterized the challenge of pesticide resistance as a wicked problem: “If we are to address this recalci...

Wednesday, May 15, 2019

Causal Invariance and Machine Learning

In an EconTalk podcast with Cathy O'Neil Russ Roberts discusses her book Weapons of Math Destruction and some of the unintentional negat...

Tuesday, April 23, 2019

Synthetic Controls - An Example with Toy Data

Abadie Diamond and Hainmueller introduce the method of synthetic controls as an alternative to difference-in-differences for evaluating the ...

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Matt Bogard: Applied economist focusing on the economics of food, health, and biotechnology.

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