Two University of California, Berkeley doctoral students in biostatistics, Iván Díaz and Boriska Toth, presented their work on targeted learning at the 2011 Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM) in Miami Florida this week. Dr. Hui Wang of Stanford also presented her work, titled Applications of Targeted MLE Based Variable Importance Measurement in Dimension Reduction with Gene Expression [slides]. Iván Díaz gave a talk on Population Intervention Causal Effects Based on Stochastic Interventions, which was a shortened version of an earlier presentation he gave this past Spring [slides]. Boriska Toth’s oral presentation was on Efficient Targeted Estimation Using Instrumental Variables [slides].

 
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