Events
ZOOM into Science Online LecturesCausal Inference: Another You in a Parallel Universe
Date:
27 Apr 2020
Time:
4:00 p.m.
Speaker(s):
Prof. CHAN Kin Wai (Department of Statistics)
Admission:
Attend via ZOOM:
http://www.sci.cuhk.edu.hk/zoomlectures
Enquiries:
3943 1387
Event Details:
Does artificial intelligence improve trading? Does smoking lead to lung cancer? Do human activities cause global warming? It is impossible to know the answers unless there is another you without taking these actions in a parallel universe. We will prove that intuitive answers to some real-life causal questions are in general wrong and discuss a rigorous statistical framework to give a “viable” solution to this “impossible” task.
