The purpose of this day-long symposium is to encourage interdisciplinary exchange of ideas, interests, and expertise between industry and academia. Participants will include leadership and scientists from BASF business units across North America as well as leadership, faculty, graduate students, and postdoctoral scholars from UNC-Chapel Hill. A mixture of presentations, breakout groups, poster presentations and ... Read more

This talk introduces the basic concepts of causal inference including counterfactuals and potential outcomes. I will demonstrate how to use Stata’s -teffects- suite of commands to fit causal models using propensity score matching, inverse-probability weighting, regression adjustment, “doubly-robust” estimators that use a combination of inverse-probability weighting with regression adjustment, and nearest-neighbor matching. Zoom registration: go.unc.edu/ShepsWebinar2