[Forum SIS] 2020 ABS Summer School on Bayesian Causal Inference (Florence, Italy)

[datascience a unifi.it]

Dear All,
it is a pleasure to inform you that the 2020 Applied Bayesian Statistics 
Summer
School (17th edition) will be held in Florence, Italy, 8-12 June 2020.
The topic chosen for the 2020 school is
Bayesian Causal Inference.

Lecturer: Prof. Fan Li, Department of Statistical Science, Duke
University, Durham, NC, USA
(https://stat.duke.edu/people/fan-li).

Course Outline: The aim of this course is to introduce the fundamental
concepts and
state-of-art methods for causal inference under the potential outcome
framework. The lectures will be organized by the treatment assignment
mechanisms. Topics will cover randomized experiments, observational
studies with ignorable assignment mechanisms, natural experiments,
sequential ignorable longitudinal treatments. Recent advances related
to machine learning and more complex situations such as spatial-temporal
treatments and interference will also be discussed. All methods will
be illustrated via real case studies in health studies, economics and
biology. Though the causal framework and most of the methods are
independent of the inferential paradigm, an emphasis will be put on the
Bayesian paradigm for inference.

Conference Website: 
http://www.mi.imati.cnr.it/conferences/abs20/index.html

Registration and payment: registration is now open but payments are 
possible
only from early January. Please note that the conference room allows
only for a very limited number of participants.

Organizers:
Prof. Guido Consonni (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano)
and Prof. Fabrizio Ruggeri (CNR-IMATI, Milano): Directors of the School

Prof. Raffaele Argiento (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano)
and Prof. Antonio Pievatolo (CNR-IMATI, Milano): Executive Directors

Local contributing organization:
Florence Center for Data Science (FDS)
Department of Statistics, Computer Science, Applications (DISIA)
University of Florence

Further details can be found at
http://www.mi.imati.cnr.it/conferences/abs20/index.html,
and on the Florence Center for Data Science Website among the Events
https://datascience.unifi.it/index.php/events/.

Best Regards,
Florence Center for Data Science