Recent & Upcoming Talks

Civil liability for a lost chance applies to cases in which a tortious action changes the probabilities of the outcomes that can be obtained by the victim. This talk uses Decision Theory to discuss how to quantify damages in such cases.

Introdução à Teoria da Decisão com aplicações na Jurimetria. Em particular, discute-se o efeito da ausência de taxas judiciais nos JEC’s sobre o valor pedido pelo autor.

I’ll present a model for infering the evolution of the phonology of languages. A relevant innovation of this model is that it captures the regularity of sound changes.