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Adam Sales

 

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Education

Specialties
  • Causal inference; Propensity Score Matching, High-dimensional Observational Studies, Principal Stratification and Mediation Analysis, Regression Discontinuity, Randomization Inference, Sensitivity Analysis, Attributable Effects Estimands, Balance Testing
  • Other topics, such as Multi-level Modeling, Permutation Testing, Replicability Analysis
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Publications

Knowlton, S, Sales, A and Merriman, K. (2014) A Comparison Of Faculty And Bibliometric Valuation Of Serials Subscriptions At An Academic Research Library. Serials Review, 40(1), 28-39.

Grim, P, Singer, DJ, Fisher, S, Bramson, A, Berger, WJ, Reade, C, Flocken, C, and Sales, Adam. (2013). Scientific Networks on Data Landscapes: Question Difficulty, Epistemic Success, and Convergence. Episteme, v10, n4, pp. 441-464.

Recent/Ongoing Work

Sales, A and Hansen, BB. Limitless Regression Discontinuity: Causal Inference for a Population Surrounding a Threshold. PDF (In revision)

Berger, WJ, and Sales, A. Voting as Betting: A Formal and Empirical Endorsement of Majority Rule. PDF

Sales, A, and Hansen, BB. Rebar: Reinforcing a Matching Estimator with Predictions from High- Dimensional Covariates. CMU Statistics Technical Report. PDF

Brian Rowan, Paul Perrault, Mark White, Blair Beuche, Adam Sales, and Bendik B. Hansen. (2014) Final Report: Year Two Research on the Excellence for All Initiative. Education and Well Being Program, Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan.

Martinez, L. and Sales, A. Poverty, the Macroeconomy, and, Unionization: A Multi-level Approach. PDF

Selected Projects

Analyzing Student Usage and Outcome Data from a Randomized Experiment of Cognitive Tutor Algebra. (Funded) Co-PI, with John Pane (PI, RAND). NSF Grant #DRL-1420374

Rebar: Predicting Outcomes to Reinforce Experiments and Matching Designs. PI. (Applied) IES Grant. 

Teaching

Instructor, Graduate Course in Observational Causal Inference (36-729), Department of Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University.

Contact Information

Baker Hall 232G

(412) 268-3970

acsales@andrew.cmu.edu


Personal website: http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~acsales/