Events in the School of Social Sciences

Manchester Online Seminars on Evidential Pluralism: Simulating Expertise-Based Inference.

The reliability of causal inference based on a physician’s expertise has been a matter of debate. In recent work, Tabatabaei Ghomi and Stegenga developed a model to simulate such inferences in the context of medicine, evaluating a range of conditions under which a physician’s inferences about the effects of a drug are reliable or unreliabl..