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CENTRE FOR SOCIAL MEDICINE AND COMMUNITY HEALTH
SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU UNIVERSITY

 

organising a lecture on Observational Studies

 

‘Causal Analysis of London's Cycle Highway to Reduce Heavy Traffic’


By
Kaushik Jana

Assistant Professor
School of Arts and Sciences, Bagchi School of Public Health
Ahmedabad University


DATE- 23 Oct 20204
TIME- 3.30 PM
ROOM NO 206 SSS-II

 

ABSTRACT- Causal analysis is a statistical technique used to identify cause-and-effect relationships between two variables. Estimating the causal effect of an intervention (treatment), especially in observational studies, can be challenging due to the non-random
assignment of treatments. For treatments affecting an outcome variable that has asymmetric and heavy-tailed distributions, the impact is often more pronounced in the extreme tails rather than at the median. In response to this, we propose a novel statistical method that focuses on estimating treatment effects at the tails of the distribution, accounting for the heavy-tailed nature of the outcome. Our comprehensive study demonstrates the effectiveness of this approach. When applied to London transport data, our framework reveals a significant increase in extreme traffic flow after the introduction of Cycle Superhighways. This insight can aid decision-making processes to enhance traffic network performance and reduce congestion.

 

SPEAKER - Kaushik Jana is an assistant professor of statistics at Ahmedabad University. Prior to that, he was a postdoctoral research associate at Imperial College London (2018-2021) and obtained PhD from Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata. He develops statistical tools to analyse data of different types. He has a distinct preference for research problems that have direct relevance to practical issues and some of his application areas are environment and climate change, public health, cybersecurity

A warm welcome to the modified and updated website of the Centre for East Asian Studies. The East Asian region has been at the forefront of several path-breaking changes since 1970s beginning with the redefining the development architecture with its State-led development model besides emerging as a major region in the global politics and a key hub of the sophisticated technologies. The Centre is one of the thirteen Centres of the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi that provides a holistic understanding of the region.

Initially, established as a Centre for Chinese and Japanese Studies, it subsequently grew to include Korean Studies as well. At present there are eight faculty members in the Centre. Several distinguished faculty who have now retired include the late Prof. Gargi Dutt, Prof. P.A.N. Murthy, Prof. G.P. Deshpande, Dr. Nranarayan Das, Prof. R.R. Krishnan and Prof. K.V. Kesavan. Besides, Dr. Madhu Bhalla served at the Centre in Chinese Studies Programme during 1994-2006. In addition, Ms. Kamlesh Jain and Dr. M. M. Kunju served the Centre as the Documentation Officers in Chinese and Japanese Studies respectively.

The academic curriculum covers both modern and contemporary facets of East Asia as each scholar specializes in an area of his/her interest in the region. The integrated course involves two semesters of classes at the M. Phil programme and a dissertation for the M. Phil and a thesis for Ph. D programme respectively. The central objective is to impart an interdisciplinary knowledge and understanding of history, foreign policy, government and politics, society and culture and political economy of the respective areas. Students can explore new and emerging themes such as East Asian regionalism, the evolving East Asian Community, the rise of China, resurgence of Japan and the prospects for reunification of the Korean peninsula. Additionally, the Centre lays great emphasis on the building of language skills. The background of scholars includes mostly from the social science disciplines; History, Political Science, Economics, Sociology, International Relations and language.

Several students of the centre have been recipients of prestigious research fellowships awarded by Japan Foundation, Mombusho (Ministry of Education, Government of Japan), Saburo Okita Memorial Fellowship, Nippon Foundation, Korea Foundation, Nehru Memorial Fellowship, and Fellowship from the Chinese and Taiwanese Governments. Besides, students from Japan receive fellowship from the Indian Council of Cultural Relations.