Political science methods talks at NYU

Jonathan Nagler posts this mini-conference:

***PLEASE RSVP IF YOU WILL BE ATTENDING.***

Fri 27 Apr 2007

11:30 – 1:00: Lunch

1:00 – 2:30: Jake Bowers, “Drug Safety and Deadlines: An Application of Prognostic Scores, Propensity Scores, Full Matching and Permutation Inference to Regulatory Regime Change at the FDA”

2:45 – 4:15: Kosuke Imai, “Misunderstandings among Experimentalists and Observationalists: Balance Test Fallacies in Causal Inference”

4:30 – 5:45 Jennifer Hill, “Matching: Friend or Foe for Causal Inference”

All events will take place at University Hall, 110 E. 14th Street.

If you are planning to attend, please RSVP to Tanisha Johnson-Campbell (tanisha.johnsoncampbell (at) nyu.edu). Please let her know if you will be coming in time for lunch.

It looks like interesting and important stuff.