Statistics Colloquium, Dr. Tirthankar Dasgupta

Department of Statistics, Harvard University

Location

Mathematics/Psychology : 103

Date & Time

April 29, 2016, 11:00 am12:00 pm

Description

Title:

Design and analysis of experiments for new-generation scientific studies: some challenges and potential solutions.

Abstract:

Many modern-day experiments conducted by researches in the social, behavioral, biomedical and management/business sciences involve complications like (a) simultaneous study of multiple factors (b) availability of multiple covariate measurements for each experimental unit – before or after conducting the experiment, necessitating a strategy for achieving covariate balance/adjustment across treatment groups and (c) varying level of randomization restrictions across factors. In this talk, we will present real-life examples of these complications from different fields of application, and discuss some ideas and research results that focus on the development of a unified approach for designing and analyzing experiments that address all of the above complexities.