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Academy of Management

What Would it Take to Change an Inference? Sensitivity Analysis to Inform Innovation in the Future

August 9, 2024 (8:00am–11:00am Central time). In-person: Chicago, IL.

Description:

Participants in this PDW will learn several approaches for quantifying the robustness of a causal inference. These provide a more precise language for producers and consumers to talk about potential concerns to inferences (e.g., omitted variables). The Impact Threshold for a Confounding Variable (ITCV) will be introduced to show participants how they can quantify how strong the correlations associated with an omitted variable must be to overturn an inference. The Robustness of Inference to Replacement (RIR) will be introduced to show participants how they can quantify what percentage of cases would have to be replaced with cases for which there was no effect of the predictor of interest to change the inference. Participants will learn to use the on-line application, spreadsheet, and the konfound macros in Stata and R. We will discuss guidelines for the application of sensitivity analysis in management research including how to create and interpret benchmarks based on observed covariates. These approaches allow researchers across a broad range of topic areas to debate the strength of evidence in intuitive and concrete terms necessary to inform innovations in the future.


Society for Epidemiological Research

What would it take to change your inference? Quantifying the Discourse about Causal Inferences in Epidemiology

July 24, 2024 (8:30am–12:30pm Central time). Virtual.


Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)

Sensitivity Analysis: Quantifying the Robustness of Inferences to Alternative Factors or Data

July 8–12 (mini-course). Hybrid: Ann Arbor, MI.


University of Gothenburg

School of Public Health and Community Medicine

May 24, 2024. In-person: Gothenburg, Sweden.


Lund University

Workshop and Presentation on Sensitivity Analysis

May 20–21, 2024 (Starting 1:00pm Central European time). In-person: Lund, Sweden.


Society for Research on Adolescent Development

What Would it take to Change an Inference? Quantifying the Robustness of Causal Inferences in Adolescent Research

April 17, 2024 (9:00am–12:00pm Central time). In-person: Chicago, IL.


American Educational Research Association

What Would It Take to Change Your Inference? Opening the Discourse about Causal Inferences to a Range of Stakeholders

April 12, 2024 (7:45am–11:45am Eastern time). In-person: Philadelphia, PA.


Association for Education Finance and Policy

What would it take to Change your Inference? Informing Discourse about Causal Inferences in the Educational Ecosystem

March 5, 2024 (12:00pm–3:00pm Eastern time). Virtual.


Statistical Horizons

Two Key Techniques for Quantifying the Robustness of Causal Inferences

February 29–March 1, 2024 (2-day mini-course). Virtual.


University of Arizona

Computational Social Science

February 14, 2024 (2:30pm–5:00pm Mountain time). In-person: Tempe, AZ.