HSSH University Researchers Matti Pohjonen and Sointu Leikas as well as HSSH Vice Director and Research Coordinator Pekka Mäkelä participated in a workshop on the Predictability in the Social Sciences organized jointly by HSSH and Jaakko Kuorikoski along with the UH Practical Philosophy staff at Lammi Biological Station in February. Germans Savcisens from the Northwestern University (Boston, US) presented his mortality-prediction algorithm that received wide attention and was published in the Nature Computational Science. Matti and Sointu gave presentations focusing on challenges of prediction and inference in their own fields.
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