Lab meetings

M2Health working group meetings are every other week from 12:30-2pm on Fridays starting 9/23.

You can find the specific dates of the meetings in the M2Health google calendar.

Upcoming presentations & topics

November 18:

• Causal Forests (Luke Francisco & Easton Hutch)

December 2:

• Reinforcement Learning (Chaoyu Ding & Hsin-Yu Lai)

December 16:

• Debiased Machine Learning (Mengqi Xu & Hera Shi)

Past presentations & topics

May 17:

• MRTs and causal excusion effects (Dr. Dempsey)
  • Assessing Time-Varying Causal Effect Moderation in Mobile Health (Boruvka et al., 2019)
  • Efficacy of Contextually Tailored Suggestions for Physical Activity: A Micro-randomized Optimization Trial of HeartSteps (Klasnja et al., 2019)

May 31:

• Machine learning methods in mobile health analyses (Dr. Demspey)

• Cluster-based weighted centered least squares (Hera Shi)

June 14:

• Machine learning algorithms for MRTs (Dr. Dempsey)

  • Double/debiased machine learning for treatment and structural parameters (Chernozhukov et al., 2018)
  • Agnostic notes on regression adjustments to experimental data: Reexamining Freedman’s critique (Lin, 2013)

• Moderator adjustment in MRT analyses (Hera Shi)

July 12:

• A continuous time dynamic factor model for mobile health data (Longfei Zhang and Madeline Abbott)

July 26:

• Reinforcement Learning, MDP, and their application to Mobile Health (Chaoyu Ding and Jieru Shi)
  • Estimating Dynamic Treatment Regimes in Mobile Health Using V-learning (Luckett et al., 2019)

September 7th:

• Functional data analysis (Yidan Zhang and Tianwen Ma)
  • A two-stage model for wearable device data (Bai et al., 2017)

September 23rd:

• Functional Data Analysis Methods for Analyzing Accelerometry Data in Mobile Health (Margaret Banker)

  • Recording Link

  October 7:

• Kernel Multimodal Continuous Attention (Alex Moreno)

  • Sparse and Continuous Attention Mechanisms (Martins et al., 2020)

October 28:

• SMARTS and MRTS (Jialu (Carrie) Zhou & Hanna Venera)
  • An experimental design for the development of adaptive treatment strategies (Murphy 2005)
  • SMART Longitudinal Analysis: A Tutorial for Using Repeated Outcome Measures from SMART Studies to Compare Adaptive Interventions (Nahum-Shani et al., 2020)
  • Estimating Time-Varying Causal Excursion Effect in Mobile Health with Binary Outcomes (Qian et al., 2020)

November 4th:

• Oralytics Decision Making: Statistical Inference for Algorithm (Kelly Zhang)

Zoom recordings

All Zoom recordings of meetings from 5/31 onward are available on Dropbox.