Presentations

Ensemble Learning Targeted Maximum Likelihood Estimation , at London, Friday, September 8, 2017:

UK 2017 Stata Users Group Meeting:

When estimating the average effect of a binary treatment (or exposure) on an outcome, methods that incorporate propensity scores, the G‐formula, or targeted maximum likelihood estimation (TMLE) are preferred over naïve regression approaches, which are biased under misspecification of a parametric outcome model. In contrast propensity score methods require the correct specification of an exposure model. Double‐robust methods only require correct specification of either the outcome or the exposure model. Targeted maximum likelihood estimation...

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IMPACT EVALUATION IN PUBLIC HEALTH: A COUNTERFACTUAL FRAMEWORK, at Baltimore, US, Wednesday, July 23, 2014:

Talk given in the Department of International Health at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health

Summary:

When a random clinical trial is not feasible, the evaluation of the effectiveness of a health intervention should not be prevented. Providing that high quality administrative data are available, we should plan an evaluation using the assumptions of the counterfactual framework (quasi-experimentation or causal inference).

Cholera Epidemic in Harare: an application of geographycal information systems and spatial epidemiology (Invited talk), at GIS conference for the Certificate on GIS at the Center for Geographica Analysis. Harvard, Friday, June 14, 2013:
The objective of the presentation is to describe the spatial distribution of the cholera epidemic in Harare and Chitungwiza in 2010. I will identify factors that influenced the spatial pattern of the outbreak spread that may explain mechanism ... Read more about Cholera Epidemic in Harare: an application of geographycal information systems and spatial epidemiology (Invited talk)

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