This seminar will provide a survey of the canonical literature in causal inference. At the end of this course, students will gain a broad understanding of the most important methodological concepts and tools in this field, and will be equipped to criticall ...
In the decades from 1930 to 1950, many rank-based statistics were introduced. These methods were received with much interest, because they worked under weak conditions. Starting in the late 1950, a theory of robustness was added. The course gives an overvi ...
An overview course intended for scientists and engineers who need to use statistical methods as part of their research, who have already attended a course at the second-year EPFL undergraduate level, and need revision and deepening of their knowledge at a ...