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Course:Somehottopicsincontemporarystatistics13thJune2016Theaimoftheworkshopistoprovideanoverviewonfourtopicsthroughrelevantinformationandsomegoodreferences.Twotopicsrelatedtopublicstatisticsandtwomoregeneraloneswillbecovered.

Topics:• SmallAreaEstimation

(IsabelMolina,UniversidadCarlosIII,Madrid)

• CausalInference(MateoRojas-Carulla,UniversityofCambridgeandMaxPlanckInstitute,Tübingen)

• MeasuringWageInequalitiesBetweenMenandWomenStateoftheArtMethodsandCurrentResearch(MihaelaAnastasiade,UniversitédeNeuchâtel)

• BigData(ThibautLienart,UniversityofOxford)

ThetalkswillbegiveninEnglish.Price(withlunch) 130CHF/person

Date 13thJune2016

Place Officefédéraldelastatistique/BundesamtfürStatistik Espacedel'Europe10 2010Neuchatel

Registration Until16thMay,byemail:sss@stat.ch

Schedule

09:30 – 10:15 Coffee&croissants Waitingfortrains

10:10 – 10:15 Welcoming M.Wilhelm

10:15 – 11:15 SmallAreaEstimation I.Molina(Univ.CarlosIII,Madrid)

Theaimofthistalkistogiveabroadandsimpleintroductionofwhatexactlysmallareaestimationis,whenitcanbeusedandwhatthehypothesesareunderwhichsuchmodelsapply.

11:15 – 11:25 Break

11:25 – 12:25 CausalInference M.Rojas-Carulla(Univ.ofCambridge/MPI)

Oneofthemainproblemsintheuseofstatisticsinthepublicdebateistheerroneousamalgambetweencorrelationandcausality.Asaconsequence,manymisleadingconclusionsarebroughtinthepublicdebate,asforinstanceinpoliticsandpublicpolicy.Thistalkhastheaimofgivingthebasicconceptsofcausalityandofgivingsomeofwhatthekeyingredientsaretoestablishandtestcausality.

12:30 – 13:50 Lunch HôtelAlpesetLac

14:00 – 15:00 WageInequalities M.Anastasiade(Univ.ofNeuchâtel)

WagediscriminationbasedongenderisprohibitedbylawinSwitzerland.However,intheinstanceswhereitoccurs,itisdifficulttoquantifyit.SincetheseminalworkofBlinderandOaxacainthe70s,manymethodshavebeenproposed,usuallybasedondatacollectedbymeansofsurveys.Thistalkwilldiscusssomestate-of-theartmethodsusedtomeasurewageinequality.Anewtechniquebasedonacalibrationapproachwillalsobeintroduced.

15:00 – 15:20 Coffeebreak

15:20 – 16:20 BigData T.Lienart(Univ.ofOxford)

'BigData'isoneofthemainbuzzwordsinstatisticsandotherrelatedfieldsthesedays.ButwhatexactlyisBigData,inparticular,whataretheopportunities,thechallengesandthepitfalls?Thistalkaimsatdemystifyingsomeoftheconceptssurroundingthetermandgivepracticalrecentexamplesofsomeofthesuccessesandfailuresinthatfield.

16:20 – 16:30 Conclusion

16.30 Apéro Registration Until16thMay,byemail:sss@stat.ch