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
Echo: Friday 2-3pm
Kashaf: Tuesday, 3-4pm
Pragya: Wednesday 3-4pm
Date | Topic | Do Before Class | In Class |
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Thrs, Jan 11 | Course Overview | ||
Tues, Jan 16 | Solving Problems by Answering Questions | ||
Thrs, Jan 18 | Stakeholder Management | ||
Tues, Jan 23 | Proscriptive v. Descriptive Questions | ||
Thrs, Jan 25 | Exploratory Questions | ||
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 | ||
Tues, Feb 13 | Passive Prediction Questions | | |
Thrs, Feb 15 | Passive Prediction Questions | ||
Tues, Feb 20 | Causal Questions | ||
Thrs, Feb 22 | Causal Questions | ||
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): - Kohvani, Tang and Xu: Chpt 19 (A/A Testing) - Kohvani, Tang and Xu: Chpt 21 (Guardrail Metrics)
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Tues, Mar 5 | Causal Questions: Experiments | Experiments: External Validity (In Practice): - Kohavi, Tang and Xu, Chpt 3, “Threats to External Validity” to end (p. 47-54) - Kohvai, Tang and Xu, Chpt 23 (Primacy Effects / Long Term Decay) | |
Thrs, Mar 7 | Causal Questions: Experiments | Experiments: Interpretation - P-Values - Kohavi, Tang and Xu, Chpt 3 up to “Threats to Internal Validity” (p. 39-42) Experiments: Power Calculations | |
Tues, Mar 12 | NO CLASS | ||
Thrs, Mar 14 | NO CLASS | ||
Tues, Mar 19 | Causal Questions: Experiments | Decision Theory (maybe Bayesian AB Testing)? | |
Thrs, Mar 21 | MIDTERM | MIDTERM | |
Tues, Mar 26 | Causal Questions: Regressions | ||
Thrs, Mar 28 | Causal Questions: Indicators and Fixed Effects | ||
Tues, Apr 2 | Causal Questions: Matching | ||
Thrs, Apr 4 | Causal Questions: Differences and Differences / Panels |
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Tues, Apr 9 | Ethics |
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Thrs, Apr 11 | |||
Tues, Apr 16 | |||
Tues, Apr 18 | |||
EXTRAS | Stuff that didn’t make it to class |
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Texts Referenced in Schedule:
Kohvani, Tang and Xu: Trustworthy Online Controlled Experiments: A Practical Guide to A/B Testing