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Proposal: Workshop on structural equation modelling for causal inference in R #17

Open serahkiburu opened 4 years ago

serahkiburu commented 4 years ago

Title of the session: Workshop on structural equation modelling for causal inference in R

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Abstract

For anyone in health, education, social sciences, ecology, genomics, genetics, software programming, and indeed any field that investigates causal thinking, graphical exploration of cause and effect is important for generation of deep insights. The free and open source R package Lavaan provides an excellent interface to explore such graphic causal models. In the workshop, I will run a Carpentry style workshop so that following the workshop, the participants will (1) gain an understanding of causal modelling, and (2) use Lavaan in R to explore graphical models for studying cause and effect relationships.

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serahkiburu commented 4 years ago

Hi @arinbasu, thanks for agreeing to run your workshop session remotely for CarpentryCon@Home. Please add details about your session to the sections with information pending above by editing the issue text.

kerchner commented 4 years ago

Resending to @arinbasu (corrected github id) - please see @serahrono 's note above. We'd like you to fill in the information pending above. Thanks for the workshop proposal!

arinbasu commented 4 years ago

Session details Session type: Workshop Keywords: causal modelling, structural equation modelling, R Permission to record this session: Yes/True Abstract For anyone in health, education, social sciences, ecology, genomics, genetics, software programming, and indeed any field that investigates causal thinking, graphical exploration of cause and effect is important for generation of deep insights. The free and open source R package Lavaan provides an excellent interface to explore such graphic causal models. In the workshop, I will run a Carpentry style workshop so that following the workshop, the participants will (1) gain an understanding of causal modelling, and (2) use Lavaan in R to explore graphical models for studying cause and effect relationships.

Personal details Name or pseudoname of the session lead: Arindam Basu

Co-leads' names (we recommend involving 2 helpers/co-leads): Not yet identified, will issue a call in the Carpentries group

Email or other ways to contact the session leads/co-leads: arin_basu@pm.me

Country of residence and/or compatible Time Zones (provide options): NZT (+12 UTC)

Would you like to present this multiple times, in other time zones: Yes

Would you like to volunteer to be listed as a wrangler/host for your time zone: WRITE HERE Is there any help you would like to invite from the community? Please provide below in bullet points. Yes

Other comment: No other comments

serahkiburu commented 4 years ago

Hi @arinbasu, the organising committee reviewed this session proposal and had this to say:

This proposal covers a tool that seems to be relevant to many members of the community. A few more details on the prerequisite and expected outcome will be helpful for attendees to decide what to get out of this session.

We are excited for your session, and more details i.e. around scheduling will be shared with you in the coming days. Let me know if I can answer any questions or clarify anything for the time being.