Galit Shmuéli, PhD

I co-direct the Rigsum Research Lab. We train faculty, instruct crash courses on decision making and technology for the government, corporate and private sectors, and implement technological projects for education institutions in the Kingdom.

My research examines the fundamental and practical differences between using statistical and other empirical methods for prediction compared to causal explanation and to description. Although the discussion of explanation vs. prediction has been actively pursued in the philosophy of science, the statistics literature has not considered it in a holistic way.