Dear friends in UAI, Some of you may be interested in the 2-day seminar on Causal Inference (below) that I plan to offer (with S. Greenland) at UCLA, in January. The material will be roughly the same as that covered in my tutorial at UAI-2001, except that I will now have two days, instead of 1.5 hour, to discuss related technical/methodological points and to answer the many questions you probably wished to ask. General information is given in the announcement below, For more details, send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hoping to answer all your questions in January, ==========Judea -------------------------Announcement -------------- Judea Pearl and Sander Greenland Two-Day Seminar at UCLA on Statistical Associations and Causal Connections, January 10-11, 2002 -------------- This conference is sponsored by the UCLA Department of Statistics and by the Statistical Literacy Project, funded by the W. M. Keck Foundation. It will focus on causal inference in statistically-based sciences. Dr. Pearl will discuss the Renaissance that is taking place in using statistical associations to provide evidence for causal connections. He will demonstrate how simple mathematical tools can be used for this task, and will provide a gentle introduction to applying his methods in various fields including business, epidemiology, social sciences and economics. Special emphasis will be placed on the paradigmatic shifts that must be undertaken in moving from traditional statistical analysis to causal analysis of multivariate data and on the assumptions that underlie all causal inferences. Dr. Sander Greenland will present his experience in teaching this material. To request additional information be sent to you by E-mail when available (including a web link for additional information), send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dr. Judea Pearl is Professor of Computer Science and Statistics at UCLA, and the author of "Causality" (Cambridge University Press, 2000). Dr. Sander Greenland, Professor in the Department of Epidemiology, teaches "Logic, Causation and Probability" and "Statistical Modeling in Epidemiology". He is a Fellow of the ASA and a co-author (with K. Rothman) of "Modern Epidemiology" (1998). ----------------
