asa.epid.01

Sponsor(s): ASA-Epidemiology

Session Time: Monday, 10:30 - 12:20

Estimated Audience Size: 200

A/V Request: Not sure

Session Title: Issues Arising in the Use of Epidemiologic Studies as Evidence in Legal and Regulatory Decision-Making

Theme Session: YES $\quad$ Applied Session: Yes

Organizer: D'Agostino Jr., Ralph  

Organizer: Gastwirth, Joseph L.  

Session Timing: Opening Remarks by Chair - 5 or 0 minutes First Speaker - 30 minutes (or 25) Second Speaker - 30 minutes Third Speaker - 30 minutes Discussant - 10 minutes (or none) Floor Discusion - 10 minutes (or 5 or 15)

Chair: Reynolds, Gladys H.  

1. Casual Inference in Legal Context $\quad$ Loue, Sana  

2. What Does It Mean To Estimate The Causal Effects Of Smoking $\quad$ Rubin, Donald B.  

3. Some Suggestions for Reconciling the Values of Statistical Science With the Goals and Needs of the Legal and Regulatory Processes $\quad$ Gastwirth, Joseph L.  

4. The Impact of Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals on the Admissibility of Statistical-Influential Evidence of Causation. $\quad$ Green, Michael  

List of speakers who are nonmembers: Michael Green