Spring 2025

Meeting Schedule

Our meetings will usually be held on Mondays, 3:30-5:00 PM, in HSPH 2-426.

Date	Topic	Reading	Presenter
3rd February	Overview of M- and Z-estimation	Ch. 5 of van der Vaart (1998) and Ch. 1-3 of Kosorok (2008).	NH
18th February (Tuesday)	Some empirical process theory	Ch. 7-9 of van der Vaart (1998) and Ch. 5-6 of Kosorok (2008).	CT
3rd March	More empirical process theory	Ch. 7-8 of Kosorok (2008) and Ch. 18-19 of van der Vaart (1998).	SVB
17th March	The functional delta method	Ch. 12-14 of Kosorok (2008) and Ch. 20 of van der Vaart (1998).	CJ
31st March	Efficient semiparametric inference	Ch. 16-17 and Sec. 18.1 of Kosorok (2008).	NSH
14th April (Tuesday)	Efficient semiparametric inference	Sec. 18.2-18.3 of Kosorok (2008) and Appx. A.1-A.5 of van der Laan and Rose (2011).	NSH
5th May	Efficient semiparametric inference	Sec. 19.1-19.2, Ch. 20, and Sec. 21.1-21.2 of Kosorok (2008).	NH

References

Kosorok, Michael R. 2008. Introduction to Empirical Processes and Semiparametric Inference. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-74978-5.

van der Laan, Mark J, and Sherri Rose. 2011. Targeted Learning: Causal Inference for Observational and Experimental Data. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9782-1.

van der Vaart, Aad W. 1998. Asymptotic Statistics. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511802256.