To be read before The Royal Statistical Society at the Society's 2021 annual conference held in Manchester on Wednesday, September 8th, 2021, the President, Professor Sylvia Richardson, in the Chair.
We discuss some causal estimands used to study racial discrimination in policing. A central challenge is that not all police-civilian encounters are recorded in administrative datasets and available to researchers. One possible solution is to …
We developed a generative model for key epidemiological events in COVID-19 patients and derived explicit formulae to correct for selection bias. We find that several early analyses of the COVID-19 pandemic were severely biased due to sample …