An International Symposium on
Statistical Causal Inference and Nonnormality

Date: September 29, 2005
Conference site: Osaka University Sigma Hall, Seminar Room II
                 Toyonaka campus
Organizer: Yutaka Kano (Osaka U)

Special invited speaker:

         Joseph L Schafer (Pennsylvania State University)
         Aapo Hyvarinen (University of Helsinki)




ACADEMIC PROGRAM
13:30 - 14:15  Yutaka Kano 
               Opening. Rubin's causality and structural equation modeling
14:15 - 15:15  Aapo Hyvarinen  
               A linear nongaussian acyclic model (LiNGAM) for causal discovery 

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15:30 - 16:30  Joseph Schafer
               Missing data, multiple imputation and causal inference 
16:30 - 17:15  Takahiro Hoshino
               Estimating causal effects on latent variables using propensity scores 

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17:30 - 18:15  Kazunori Yamaguchi
              A matching method based on the latent class model 
18:15 - 18:45
              Discussion

19:00 - 21:00  dinner

For those who are interested in the symposium, please contact Yutaka Kano
(kano at sigmath.es.osaka-u.ac.jp).



The symposium is financially supported by grant-in-aid for Scientific Research
from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.

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