课程描述 DescriptionThe course extends on Causal inference for statistics, social and biomedical sciences I. Here we will discuss causal inference using observational data. In Part III we assume that the assignment mechanism is “regular” in a well-defined sense and discuss what is called the “design” phase of an observational study. In Part IV we discuss data analysis for studies with regul...
Abstract:Traditionally machine learning and optimization are two different branches in computer science. They need to accomplish two different types of tasks, and they are studied by two different sets of domain experts. Machine learning is the task of extracting a model from the data, while optimization is to find the optimal solutions from the learned model. In the current era of big data and...