NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

SI 2015 Methods Lectures

Susan Athey, Stanford University and NBER
Guido Imbens, Stanford University and NBER
Organizers

July 18, 2015

Royal Sonesta Hotel
40 Edwin H. Land Blvd.
Cambridge, MA

Syllabus

1:30 pm	Welcome
1:35 pm	Guido Imbens "Introduction to Supervised ML Concepts and Algorithms"
2:30 pm	Break
2:40 pm	Guido Imbens "Prediction, Classification, and Applications"
3:35 pm	Break
3:45 pm	Susan Athey "Machine Learning and Causal Inference"
4:40 pm	Break
4:50 pm	Susan Athey "Unsupervised Learning: Applications to Networks and Text Mining"
5:45 pm	Adjourn

Background papers:

Statistical Modeling: The Two Cultures

Top 10 algorithms in data mining