Class Schedule#
Class: Tuesday / Thursday, 1:25-2:40pm
Office Hours:
Nick: Thursday, 9:00-10:00am, https://duke.zoom.us/my/nickeubank or Gross Hall 231
Texts Referenced in Schedule:
Cunningham: Causal Inference Mixtape
Kohvani, Tang and Xu: Trustworthy Online Controlled Experiments: A Practical Guide to A/B Testing
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Topic |
Do Before Class |
In Class |
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Thrs, Jan 11 |
Course Overview |
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Tues, Jan 16 |
Solving Problems by Answering Questions |
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Thrs, Jan 18 |
Stakeholder Management |
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Tues, Jan 23 |
Proscriptive v. Descriptive Questions |
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Thrs, Jan 25 |
Exploratory Questions |
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Tues, Jan 30 |
Exploratory Questions |
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Thrs, Feb 1 |
Teams 1 |
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Tues, Feb 6 |
Teams 2 |
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Thrs, Feb 8 |
Passive Prediction Questions |
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Tues, Feb 13 |
Passive Prediction Questions |
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Thrs, Feb 15 |
Passive Prediction Questions |
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Tues, Feb 20 |
Causal Questions |
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Thrs, Feb 22 |
Causal Questions |
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Tues, Feb 27 |
Causal Questions |
(Note SDO (Simple Difference in Outcomes) in Cunningham same as “widehat{ATE} from class)
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Thrs, Feb 29 |
Causal Questions: Experiments |
Experiments: Internal Validity (In Practice):
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Tues, Mar 5 |
Causal Questions: Experiments |
Overall Evaluation Criteria: Kohavi, Tang, and Xu Chpt 7. Finishing Internal Validity:
Experiments: External Validity (In Practice):
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Thrs, Mar 7 |
Optional Class |
Optional Class |
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Tues, Mar 12 |
NO CLASS |
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Thrs, Mar 14 |
NO CLASS |
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Tues, Mar 19 |
Causal Questions: Experiments |
Designing Experiments
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Thrs, Mar 21 |
Review Day |
AB Testing Review |
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Tues, Mar 26 |
Causal Questions: Experiments |
(This is same as IDS 705 Lecture 8 Reading) |
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Thrs, Mar 28 |
MIDTERM |
MIDTERM |
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Tues, Apr 2 |
Causal Questions: Regression |
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Thrs, Apr 4 |
Exploratory Questions Feedback |
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Tues, Apr 9 |
Causal Questions: Matching |
Watch the video above from about 15 minutes in (where link starts) till at least 45 minutes in, keep going if you want to learn about propensity score matching problems. |
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Thrs, Apr 11 |
Causal Questions: Differences and Differences / Panels |
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Tues, Apr 16 |
Interpretation of Results |
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Wed, April 24 |
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Wed, May 1 |
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