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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:[email protected]
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:[email protected]