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Cyrus Samii

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NYU Politics prof. Methods to inform policy. Governance, conflict, institutions. cyrussamii.com

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Cyrus Samii @cdsamii.bsky.social · 15h

Congrats to UZH.
One can read in terms of Hirschman’s Exit/Voice/Loyalty framework: the pull of sentimentality toward MIT is weak when there is abundant work to be done on global poverty and the broader home
environment is so bleak.

Florian Scheuer @florianscheuer.bsky.social · 18h

I am delighted to share that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will join our Department of Economics @econ.uzh.ch at the University of Zurich on July 1, 2026, as Lemann Foundation Professors of Economics.

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Florian Scheuer @florianscheuer.bsky.social · 18h

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Cyrus Samii @cdsamii.bsky.social · 10d

👀 (given the remarkable robustness of BART as a static prediction method)

arXiv stat.ME Methodology @statme-bot.bsky.social · 10d

Christoph Breunig, Ruixuan Liu, Zhengfei Yu: Robust Semiparametric Inference for Bayesian Additive Regression Trees https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24634 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.24634 https://arxiv.org/html/2509.24634

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arXiv stat.ME Methodology @statme-bot.bsky.social · 10d

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Cyrus Samii @cdsamii.bsky.social · 11d

Very well said. Re (2), a version of this is in the Korn and Graubard "Analysis of Health Surveys" textbook that explains how, under misspecification (and all models are somewhat misspecified), the weighted (population) fit is what we want rather than the sample fit.

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Political Analysis @polanalysis.bsky.social · 17d

Currently in FirstView: “Generalizing Trimming Bounds for Endogeneously Missing Outcome Data Using Random Forests." @cdsamii.bsky.social, Ye Wang, @jlzhou.bsky.social‬ present a partial identification approach that avoids strong assumptions. This is illustrated using a simulation and replication.

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Cyrus Samii @cdsamii.bsky.social · 28d

Agreed — nice round up of very well informed perspectives. I found Raleigh’s analysis especially convincing but all perspectives were thought provoking.

Jonathan Ladd @jonmladd.bsky.social · 28d

Credit where credit is due. This Politico symposium on political violence is good.

10 Political Violence Experts on What Comes Next for America

Can America escape the spiral of political violence after Charlie Kirk’s killing?

www.politico.com

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Jonathan Ladd @jonmladd.bsky.social · 28d

Credit where credit is due. This Politico symposium on political violence is good.

10 Political Violence Experts on What Comes Next for America

Can America escape the spiral of political violence after Charlie Kirk’s killing?

www.politico.com

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Oliver Hanney @olihanney.bsky.social · Sep 2

Back to teaching or studying economics at university this September?

@voxdev.bsky.social has tons of useful resources for university economics courses - I have included some examples in this thread. 1/n

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Cyrus Samii @cdsamii.bsky.social · Sep 2

Skepticism toward vax and modern medicine is fairly widespread publicly as I’ve seen, and is tied up with antipathy toward “experts” (“do your own research” a la Aaron Rodgers), which universities embody. There is the woke issue sure, but there is also antipathy toward expertise to contend with.

Cyrus Samii @cdsamii.bsky.social · Sep 2

Let’s take the area where there has been the most heat: vaccinations. The MRNA vax researcher doesn’t need to change what they do. It’s a problem of educating the public that this is useful stuff. The question is how to do that effectively.

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Cyrus Samii @cdsamii.bsky.social · Sep 2

Seems that a field that has taken an especially large hit in the current context is biomedical sciences, and this because, it seems, MAGA rejected the expert guidance on COVID. These rules leave many unanswered questions for that field, no?

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · Sep 1

WE ARE HIRING! 2 Lecturers in Quantitative Social Science. Want a friendly interdisciplinary department in one of the world's most vibrant cities? This just might be for you.

Apply by: 10 Oct

www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

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Cyrus Samii @cdsamii.bsky.social · Aug 30

I agree with comments here emphasizing Trump’s vengeance on the “medical establishment” after feeling that it conspired during COVID to unseat him. Would be nice if nurses and doctors generated a groundswell of alarm in their personal social networks about the dangers.

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Klaus Pforr @klauspforr.bsky.social · Aug 29

Interesting paper on design-based uncertainty for quasi-experiments
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Design-Based Uncertainty for Quasi-Experiments

Design-based frameworks of uncertainty are frequently used in settings where the treatment is (conditionally) randomly assigned. This article develops a design-based framework suitable for analyzin...

www.tandfonline.com

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Cyrus Samii @cdsamii.bsky.social · Aug 28

Montiel Olea has a few really nice papers on design from a decision theoretic perspective.

Cyrus Samii @cdsamii.bsky.social · Aug 28

Anna Wilke and I have a paper (soon on Arxiv) that I can send on design diversification from minmax regret perspective. We were inspired by Manski and papers on experimental design like Banerjee et al. and Azevedo et al.

www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...

University of Chicago Press Journals: Cookie absent

www.journals.uchicago.edu

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Cyrus Samii @cdsamii.bsky.social · Aug 21

Isn't this "generalization"?

Cyrus Samii @cdsamii.bsky.social · Aug 18

(The tortured fit of a global polynomial)

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Cyrus Samii @cdsamii.bsky.social · Aug 16

For your weekend read I highly recommend this article on the Tampa Bay Rays and the thankless pursuit of excellence:

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/m...

Is He Baseball’s Most Brilliant Owner, or a Failure?

www.nytimes.com

Cyrus Samii @cdsamii.bsky.social · Aug 16

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ArXiv Paperboy (Stat.ME+Econ.EM) @paperposterbot.bsky.social · Aug 15

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A General Design-Based Framework and Estimator for Randomized Experiments (Harshaw, S\"avje, Wang) We describe a design-based framework for drawing causal inference in general randomized experiments. Causal effects are defined as linear functionals evaluated at unit-level potential outcom

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ArXiv Paperboy (Stat.ME+Econ.EM) @paperposterbot.bsky.social · Aug 15

Cyrus Samii @cdsamii.bsky.social · Aug 10

*cited (not cute)

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Cyrus Samii @cdsamii.bsky.social · Aug 10

We had a wee contribution on this for randomized experiments (cute by Abadie et al.). The idea extends by analogy to observational studies: cyrussamii.com/wp-content/u...

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Cyrus Samii @cdsamii.bsky.social · Aug 10

One observes only a sample of the potential outcomes. Sampling error based standard errors provide for conservative inference for such uncertainty. Surprisingly, this was not widely known until fairly recently. (Cf the Abadie et al paper and refs therein.)

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NBER @nber.org · Mar 30

Using new tools in legal language processing to show workers value the legal rights provided by collective bargaining agreements, from Benjamin W. Arold, Elliott Ash, W. Bentley MacLeod, and Suresh Naidu https://www.nber.org/papers/w33605

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ArXiv Paperboy (Stat.ME+Econ.EM) @paperposterbot.bsky.social · Apr 22

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Finite Population Identification and Design-Based Sensitivity Analysis (Kline, Masten) We develop an approach to sensitivity analysis that uses design distributions to calibrate sensitivity parameters in a finite population model. We use this approach to (1) give a new formal analysis of

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Miguel Hernan @miguelhernan.org · Apr 24

If you're wondering about differences between publicly-funded research in non-profit universities and
privately-funded research in for-profit companies, watch this:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ar0z...

The topic is the "de-extinction of the dire wolf", but the message applies beyond it. (Think "AI".)

They Didn't Make Dire Wolves, They Made Something…Else

YouTube video by hankschannel

www.youtube.com

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Greg Faletto @gregoryfaletto.com · May 3

It's not okay, and this is basically the reason. If you want to be able to peek at the results, then increase the sample size, and repeat, you have to use anytime-valid inference techniques e.g. arxiv.org/abs/2210.01948

Game-theoretic statistics and safe anytime-valid inference

Safe anytime-valid inference (SAVI) provides measures of statistical evidence and certainty -- e-processes for testing and confidence sequences for estimation -- that remain valid at all stopping time...

arxiv.org

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Nate Breznau @breznaunate.bsky.social · May 4

Max Weber "Science as Vocation" deals with this topic very well IMO sociology.sas.upenn.edu/sites/defaul...

sociology.sas.upenn.edu