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Dominik Liebl

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www.dliebl.com Professor of Statistics at Uni Bonn From πŸ₯¨πŸ”οΈπŸ»-Land. Economist socialized as nonparametric statistician #statistics #statsky #econsky #rstats

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@ccfang819.bsky.social my PhD student @unibonn.bsky.social and coauthor of the below πŸ‘‡ paper is now also here at bsky. Follow recommendation πŸ˜‰

22.01.2026 08:40 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Making Event Study Plots Honest: A Functional Data Approach to Causal Inference Event study plots are the centerpiece of Difference-in-Differences (DiD) analysis, but current plotting methods cannot provide honest causal inference when the parallel trends and/or no-anticipation a...

πŸ“„ Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2512.06804
πŸ“¦ R package: ccfang2.github.io/fdid/

Joint work with my PhD student Chencheng Fang β€” he did a fantastic job.
▢️ ccfang2.github.io

#CausalInference #DifferenceInDifferences #Econometrics #EventStudy #Statistics #RStats #AcademicResearch

21.01.2026 09:29 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Making Event Study Plots Honest: A Functional Data Approach to Causal Inference Event study plots are the centerpiece of Difference-in-Differences (DiD) analysis, but current plotting methods cannot provide honest causal inference when the parallel trends and/or no-anticipation a...

β€’ Pre-treatment: infimum-based SCBs validate the honest reference band

β€’ Post-treatment: supremum-based SCBs identify effects that truly differ from it

21.01.2026 09:29 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Making Event Study Plots Honest: A Functional Data Approach to Causal Inference Event study plots are the centerpiece of Difference-in-Differences (DiD) analysis, but current plotting methods cannot provide honest causal inference when the parallel trends and/or no-anticipation a...

Honest causal inference accounts for this bias by testing effects against an honest reference band (zero Β± bias).

Our contribution:
We make event-study plots honest using simultaneous confidence bands (SCBs).

πŸ€“ We use infimum- and supremum-based SCB!

21.01.2026 09:29 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Event-study plots in DiD are incredibly persuasiveβ€”but, honestly, not always honest.

Why?
If parallel trends or no anticipation fail, DiD estimates are biased. Testing against a zero-effect null then becomes misleading.

🚨New πŸ“„: arxiv.org/abs/2512.06804

#CausalInference #EconSky #StatsSky #rstats

21.01.2026 09:29 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

These are the materials for our 1-semester course

Introduction to Programming with R

It's geared towards 1st-year bachelor students without any prior programming experience. #rstats

discdown.org/rprogramming/

13.12.2025 22:40 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Chencheng Fang, Dominik Liebl: Making Event Study Plots Honest: A Functional Data Approach to Causal Inference https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.06804 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.06804 https://arxiv.org/html/2512.06804

09.12.2025 06:35 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

πŸ‘‹ Our first post!

We are the #ResearchData & #OpenAccess Service Centers at @unibonn.bsky.social.

We:
πŸ“– fund OA publications
πŸ“ consult & train on data management
πŸŽ“ offer tools for processing & sharing research data

We'll share insights, resources & updates from our work!
#OpenScience #UniBonn

25.08.2025 07:58 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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Applied HPC with R book-hpc.ggvy.cl/ #rstats

17.08.2025 13:45 πŸ‘ 18 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
"Register now" with an image of a megaphone

"Register now" with an image of a megaphone

StatFest 2025 is here and it's free and virtual. Undergrad students from historically underrepresented groups connect with industry experts in statistics, data science, and academia. Sept. 11, 18, & 25. Register today. community.amstat.org... #StatFest2025 #DataScience #Statistics #STEMCareers

11.08.2025 19:10 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Using time series graphs to make causal claims be like

14.07.2025 12:12 πŸ‘ 852 πŸ” 160 πŸ’¬ 11 πŸ“Œ 7
Group photo: graduates celebrated the 20th anniversary of ist UniversitΓ€tsfest in the Hofgarten.

Group photo: graduates celebrated the 20th anniversary of ist UniversitΓ€tsfest in the Hofgarten.

πŸŽ‰Congratulations to our graduates 2025!
Forever Uni Bonn - Over 2,000 graduates celebrated the 20th anniversary of its UniversitΓ€tsfest β€” with over 5,000 of their friends and family β€” a new record. Read more www.uni-bonn.de/en/news/20-j...
(c) Marc John/Uni Bonn
#UniversityOfBonn #ForeverUniBonn

08.07.2025 09:40 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Hi #EconSky! I will be teaching intro statistics with #rstats next academic year. Any suggestions for free learning resources for students and/or teaching materials?

04.07.2025 16:12 πŸ‘ 37 πŸ” 12 πŸ’¬ 11 πŸ“Œ 2

Nice thread on simultaneous confidence bands (SCBs) by @noahgreifer.bsky.social !

Not many papers explore varying critical valuesβ€”despite cool uses like narrower or fairer bands.

Bit of shameless self-promo if you're into this πŸ˜‰:
academic.oup.com/jrsssb/artic...

#econsky #statsky

04.07.2025 17:48 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Two teaching awards.

Two teaching awards.

Zwei auf einen Streich! 😊
#EconSky #rstats

28.06.2025 13:37 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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🚨 Big milestone for Rdatasets 🚨

The web archive now hosts 3400+ free and documented CSV datasets. Fantastic for teaching and testing!

And {Rdatasets} is a new #RStats πŸ“¦ for easy download and search

Web archive: vincentarelbundock.github.io/Rdatasets

R πŸ“¦: vincentarelbundock.github.io/Rdatasetspkg

06.06.2025 17:39 πŸ‘ 257 πŸ” 78 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 1

Just learned something new. You can buy spurious citations that will show up on Google Scholar -- and people do.

17.05.2025 19:41 πŸ‘ 143 πŸ” 58 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 4
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From @newyorker.com

15.05.2025 10:05 πŸ‘ 46 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

New working paper:

"Testing the Missing Completely at Random Assumption for Functional Data,"
joint work with Max Ofner*, S. HΓΆrmann and D. Kraus.

As far as we know, it's the first paper on testing MCAR for functional data.

*Look out for this smart guy.

14.05.2025 18:58 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Foto of Grace Whaba.

Foto of Grace Whaba.

Grace Wahba's award winning paper.

Grace Wahba's award winning paper.

Grace Wahba, "the mother of smoothing splines," won the International Prize (aka the Nobel) in Statistics #stats for her representer theorem.
youtu.be/8Ae_QzwwR_U?...

So well deserved! I guess, one could also give her the price again in two years for her work on Generalized Cross-Validation.

04.05.2025 17:01 πŸ‘ 64 πŸ” 16 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 4
Two men and a woman laughing.

Two men and a woman laughing.

Played through Sportify? We got you. Pointed and scientific - that's the #Hypothesis #Podcast from the #UniversityofBonn.

Listen now: www.uni-bonn.de/de/universit...

For our next episodes: Which topic would interests you the most?

17.01.2025 14:41 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Figure contains a qr-code to the homepage of the workshop: 
https://www.mathematics.uni-bonn.de/hcm/events/workshops-conferences/workshop_functional-data-analysis-a

Figure contains a qr-code to the homepage of the workshop: https://www.mathematics.uni-bonn.de/hcm/events/workshops-conferences/workshop_functional-data-analysis-a

🚨 To all scientists interested in functional data analysis:

Functional Data Analysis:
Workshop in Honor of Alois Kneip
Date: June 12-13, 2025

Registration: Open until January 26, 2025

www.mathematics.uni-bonn.de/hcm/events/w...

Pls help spread the word. πŸ™

12.12.2024 08:40 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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You may have all see this as an example of survivorship bias
#MathSky

20.10.2023 11:32 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

You puzzled me with this plot. My first thought was that it doesn't really look like the condition mean of Y | X=x, Group=blue.
2nd thought: No! Paul is doing it right, for sure.
Finally, "Sherlock"-me found the missing blue dots behind the black ones. πŸ•΅οΈ

18.10.2023 17:53 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Hello world

11.10.2023 01:44 πŸ‘ 82 πŸ” 24 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1

Freue mich auch. Wollte Roland und die ganze Gruppe schon lange mal besuchen.

11.10.2023 10:03 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Funny question at stackexchange.

Funny question at stackexchange.

"I have a feeling he is deceiving himself."

(I know it's old, but it's such a beautiful short story.)

#statssky #econsky

stats.stackexchange.com/questions/18...

10.10.2023 15:43 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

Riesige GlΓΌckwΓΌnsche an Claudia Goldin zum diesjΓ€hrigen Nobelpreis fΓΌr Wirtschaftswissenschaften! Worum geht es bei ihrer Forschung? Ein paar EindrΓΌcke aus ihrer Forschung zum Arbeitsmarkt (auf deutsch).

09.10.2023 15:31 πŸ‘ 106 πŸ” 45 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 2
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There is a new feature to show some posts from other feeds in your following feed. πŸ“ˆπŸ“‰

08.10.2023 23:20 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1