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Statistics Seminar Series: Nandita Mitra, Ph.D.
Please join us for the Statistics Seminar Series with speaker Nandita Mitra, Ph.D., Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Pennsylvania.Talk Title: North Carolina v. Bacote: Life, Death and Causal InferenceAbstract: Dr.
Mitra will share her experience as an expert witness on behalf of the ACLU and the Center for Death Penalty Litigation in a case that focused on the pivotal question of whether racial discrimination played a role in jury selection and the death penalty. She will describe the high-stakes challenge of making sound, statistical arguments in a court of law regarding individual-level versus population-level causal effects, mediation, and unmeasured confounding with the outcome at trial directly impacting one man's death sentence, hundreds of others on death row, and future policies related to capital punishment.
This seminar will be held in person only. *Lunch will be provided on a first-come basis.
