Robin Evans

Oxford lecturer and statistician who just wants to tell the world about numbers. Especially when causality is involved.

[Robin Evans @ItsAStatLife]

@sainsburys These arrived on Thursday evening, in a bag. Please do right by them! Easy Peelers

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With Daniel Manela and Linying Yang!

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**Poster Alert**

Generalizability is a common problem in causality, as we often want to generalize causal findings from one domain to another. However, current metrics like MSE can only do model comparison rather than answer directly whether a model is generalizable.

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Please join us at our UAI virtual poster on:

Testing generalizability in causal inference

July 22nd, Poster session 1, 16:00-18:30 BRT, 19:00-21:30 UTZ

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Validating causal models often relies on simplified assumptions. Frugal Flows address this by using normalising flows to generate datasets that exactly meet user-defined causal constraints, ensuring rigorous benchmarking.

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Excited to share our latest research: Marginal Causal Flows for Validation and Inference. We introduce Frugal Flows—a normalising flows based generative model that directly parameterises causal effects, enabling realistic causal dataset simulation.
https://t.co/YCbmsYeF1h

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Frugal Flows generate synthetic datasets with:
•Realistic data patterns
•Customisable ATEs and treatment heterogeneity
•Unobserved confounding effects
These features make them ideal for benchmarking causal models.

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What’s purple and commutes?

An abelian grape.

[National Museum of Mathematics @MoMath1]

What's your favorite math joke?

[National Museum of Mathematics @MoMath1]

What's your favorite math joke?

[Robin Evans @ItsAStatLife]

Everyone knows it’s gold!

[YouGov @YouGov]

The question of identity that is tearing the Lib Dems apart: is the party yellow or orange?

All Britons
Yellow: 57%
Orange: 24%

Lib Dem voters
Yellow: 55%
Orange: 41%

https://t.co/xLKr5aKzKH

[Robin Evans @ItsAStatLife]

Postdoc positions in Oxford to work with me, @cwcyau, Chris Holmes, George Nicholson and others. Very exciting project!

(Advertised through psychiatry, but jobs not tied to that area!)

[Naomi Wray @WrayNaomi]

New Oxford-Aarhus-Copenhagen collaboration - not yet launched - 2 postdocs, 2 senior postdocs and postdoc coordinator in Oxford. Jobs 173031-3 at https://t.co/8li4H2wags Methods-focussed in group Holmes, Visscher, Evans, Nicholson, @cwcyau, @ten_photo etc, Denmark ads soon

[Naomi Wray @WrayNaomi]

New Oxford-Aarhus-Copenhagen collaboration - not yet launched - 2 postdocs, 2 senior postdocs and postdoc coordinator in Oxford. Jobs 173031-3 at https://t.co/8li4H2wags Methods-focussed in group Holmes, Visscher, Evans, Nicholson, @cwcyau, @ten_photo etc, Denmark ads soon

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Half term fun @MuseumofOxford !

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@gunsnrosesgirl3 Switzerland has similar facilities!

[Prof Colin Espie @ProfEspie]

Keeping your eyes open can help you fall asleep faster. Here’s why https://t.co/4UzVCX2ET4 Delighted to provide the science behind paradoxical intention. A so called ‘sleep hack’? I don’t think so, you can’t take credit for human nature! @UniofOxford @OxSCNi @wearebighealth @NHSEngland @scotgov @ESRS_Sleep @AASMorg @ResearchSleep @BritishSleepSoc @TheSleepCharity