Israeli Statistical Association annual meeting (2018) - presentations
Applied Data Science (Hebrew) Chair: Shlomi Lifshits Ronny Lempel, Outbrain Statistical Estimation by Non-Standard Adaptations of Standard Algorithms Oren Glickman, Bar-Ilan University Using Hebrew Twitter Word Embedding in Statistical Learning Models Moni Shahar, Intuit Data Science Problems in Software for Personal Finance Roy Yadoo, SimilarWeb Panel Based Website and Mobile Applications Traffic Estimation |
Causal Inference (English) Chair: Ruth Heller Roee Gutman, Brown University Uri Shalit, Technion When and How Should One Use Deep Learning for Causal Inference Noa Dagan, Clalit Research Institute Tal El-Hay, IBM Research Adversarial Balancing for Causal inference |
Official Statistics (Hebrew) Chair: Luisa Burk Ahmad Hleihel, Central Bureau of Statistics Social Statistics in the Future David Maagan, Central Bureau of Statistics Development of Socio- Economic Index for Students in the Education System Eitan Greenstein, Central Bureau of Statistics Post-Stratification, Non- Response and Non-Parametric Empirical Bayes Natalia Tsibel, Central Bureau of Statistics |
Theoretical Data Science (English) Chair: Yuval Benjamini Emilio Porcu, University of Newcastle, UK Random Fields Evolving Temporally over Spheres Itai Dattner, Haifa University Application of One-Step Method to Parameter Estimation in ODE Models Marina Bogomolov, Technion Testing Hypotheses on a Tree: New Error Rates and Controlling Strategies Or Zuk, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
Deep Learning (Hebrew) Chair: Itai Dattner David Golan, Technion and Viz.ai A Statistician's Intro to Deep Learning Naftali Tishby, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Information Theory of Deep Learning: What do the Layers of Deep Neural Networks Represent? Raja Giryes, Tel Aviv University On the Generalization Properties of Deep Neural Networks Yarin Gal, Oxford University |
Biostatistics (English) In collaboration with EMR-IBS Chair: Havi Murad Martin Posch, Medical University of Vienna Subgroup Identification in Clinical Trials via the Predicted Shai Carmi, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem New applications of Hidden Markov Models in Genetics Philip Tzvi Reiss, Haifa University Functional Principal Component Analysis with Applications to Experience Sampling Data Ruth Heller, Tel Aviv University |