Mathematics Colloquium
Speaker: Girish Aras, IIT Bombay (Visiting Faculty)
Host: Radhendushka Srivastava
Title: Introduction to Causal Inference
Time, day and date: 4:00:00 PM - 5:00:00 PM, Wednesday, February 11
Venue: Ramanujan Hall
Abstract: I will start with a few examples where confounders disrupt classical inference paradigm and motivate why a causal approach is needed. I will review the basic formalism and central ideas of causal inference such as Neyman’s potential outcomes (counterfactuals) and Don Rubin’s foundational assumptions under which causal inference is possible.
The presentation, though rigorous, should be accessible with minimal knowledge of statistics and probability theory.