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IDSS Distinguished Seminar Series Rob Nowak

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Selection and Endogenous Bias in Studies of Health Behaviors

Emily Oster (Brown University)
E18-304

Abstract: Studies of health behaviors using observational data are prone to bias from selection in behavior choices. How important are these biases? Are they dynamic - that is, are they influenced by the recommendations we make? Are there formal assumptions under which we can use information we have about selection on observed variables to learn…

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Theoretical Foundations of Active Machine Learning

Rob Nowak (University of Wisconsin - Madison)
E18-304

Title: Theoretical Foundations of Active Machine Learning Abstract: The field of Machine Learning (ML) has advanced considerably in recent years, but mostly in well-defined domains using huge amounts of human-labeled training data. Machines can recognize objects in images and translate text, but they must be trained with more images and text than a person can…

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