Statistical causal inference in observational studies

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An Invited-Paper Session of the IMPS2007 in Tokyo

Session day: July 11 (Wed), 2007 Session time: 2 hours Session organizer and chair: Yutaka Kano (Osaka University)

Session Program (The asterisk * denotes a presenter)

Kenneth A. Bollen (University of North Carolina)* Causality and Structural Equation Models T. Shun Sato (Kyoto University)* Standardization, Target Population, and Doubly Robust Estimator Richard K. Crump (UC Berkeley) V. Joseph Hotz (UCLA) Guido W. Imbens(Harvard University)* Oscar A. Mitnik (University of Miami) Moving the Goalposts: Addressing Limited Overlap in Estimation of Average Treatment Effects by Changing the Estimand Joseph D.Y. Kang (Pennsylvania State University) Joseph Schafer (Pennsylvania State University)* Marginal Causal Modeling by Imputed Estimating Equations This session is hosted jointly with the international-meeting committee conducted by the grant-in-aid for Scientific Research (B) #18300094 from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, and the 21st Century COE Program "Behavioral macrodynamics based on surveys and experiments."

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