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	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		Ch. 16-18 of Kosorok (2008) and Appx. A.1-A.6 of van der Laan and Rose (2011).	NSH
14th April		Sec. 19.1-19.2, Ch. 20, Sec. 21.1-21.2 of Kosorok (2008)	NH
5th May		Sec. 1.2, 1.4, 1.5, and 1.6 of van der Laan and Robins (2003).	NSH

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 James M Robins. 2003. Unified Methods for Censored Longitudinal Data and Causality. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-21700-0.

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.