[Statlist] Research Seminar in Statistics | *FRIDAY 20 MARCH, 2026* | GSEM, University of Geneva

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Dear all,

We are pleased to invite you to our next Research Seminar, organized by Professor Davide La Vecchia on behalf of the Research Institute for Statistics and Information Science.
< https://www.unige.ch/gsem/en/research/institutes/risis/team/ >

FRIDAY 20 March 2026, at 11:15 am, Uni Mail M 4220

Testing for Causal Effects based on Event Processes
Dr. Myrto LIMNIOS, EPFL, Lausanne
< https://people.epfl.ch/myrto.limnios >

ABSTRACT:
In the context of disease progression analysis, testing for possible causal effects of a time-dependent treatment assigned to a given population relies on the ability to construct and compute a conditional local independence test. This is relevant in many applications that analyze high-dimensional and time-dependent observational data to understand causal relations, for example in econometrics, social sciences and epidemiology.
In this work, we propose a nonparametric framework for testing possible causal effects by introducing SHAPE: a novel usage of lasso regularization for computing Sparse and High-dimensional Adaptive Projections of Events. We prove new finite-sample guarantees for the estimation and prediction errors under suitable regularity conditions. Although our results are theoretical, we demonstrate their practical relevance for designing efficient algorithmic procedures. The results will further be applied to learn causal graphs in this setting.
(Jointly with Prof. Niels R. Hansen (Copenhagen University, Denmark))

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