Several people have asked me about using propensity score matching with complex surveys, and whether/how weights, PSUs and strata should be taken into account. This paper explains how to handle these issues.
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2024 Northwestern Main and Advanced Causal Inference Workshops
4 weeks ago
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We are excited to be holding our 13th annual workshop on Research Design for Causal Inference at Northwestern Law School in Chicago, IL. We invite you to attend. Main Workshop: Monday – Friday, July 29 – August 2, 2024 Advanced Workshop: Sunday – Wednesday, August 4-7, 2024 What’s special about these workshops are the world-class speakers, who are experts in...
Getting tested for PCB exposure
1 month ago
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Given the Poe Hall PCB contamination scandal, I’ve been doing a deep dive to try and figure out what the health consequences are for me. Unfortunately, the science is quite murky, because it is difficult to determine what is going on for people who have faced years of exposure to uncertain levels of PCBs. Besides skin disease, cancer seems to be the big concern. So I’ve done three...
2024 Summer Research Training Institute on Cluster-Randomized Trials
1 month ago
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I attended this over a decade ago, it was a great experience: Dear Colleague,We will be offering the IES Summer Research Training Institute again this summer at Northwestern University from July 15 – 25, 2024. I hope you have found the previous training you received from the Summer CRT Institute to be valuable. As a previous participant in the Training Institute, I strongly encourage you to...
Woke Joke Part 8: Supreme Court passes
1 month ago
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I’ve been so involved in the Poe Hall scandal that I forgot to post that the Supreme Court, not surprisingly, declined to hear my case against NC State; they only take on a handful of cases each year. So this means my case will *not* move forward to trial. [UPDATE: I was in a rush to get this out, and left out the important “not” in that sentence when I first posted this. :)] I...
