STATISTICS 265 - CAUSAL INFERENCE SPRING 2018
Lecture: Tu Th 12:30pm-1:50pm in Donald Bren Hall 1422
instructor: Hal Stern
office: 2216 Bren Hall
phone: 949-824-1568
email: sternh@uci.edu
office hours: Tu 2:00-3:00pm
COURSE DOCUMENTS:
Syllabus
TEXTBOOK:
Causal Inference for Statistics, Social, and Biomedical Sciences
by Guido W. Imbens and Donald B. Rubin (Cambridge Univ Press, 2015)
SECONDARY TEXT:
Causal Inference in Statistics: A Primer
by Judea Pearl, Madelyn Glymour, and Nicholas P. Jewll (Wiley, 2016)
HOMEWORK / HANDOUTS:
Homework 1 (assigned 4/17/18, due 5/1/18)
(Cloud seeding data as .RData, .csv)
Homework 1 solutions
Homework 2 (assigned 5/1/18, due 5/15/18)
(Florida 2004 voting data as .RData, .csv)
J. Sekhon technical report
Dehejia and Wahba JASA 1999 article
Homework 2 solutions
2010 Exam
2010 Exam solutions
Homework 3 (assigned 5/15/18, due 5/31/18)
Homework 3 solutions
READINGS:
Fact sheet: Proposition 47 and Crime by C. Kubrin and B. Bartos (UCI Criminology, Law and Society
Protecting unauthorized immigrant mothers improves their children's mental health by J. Hainmueller et al., Science, 2017, 1001-1004.
Last updated June 5, 2018