Galit Shmuéli, PhD

I co-direct the Centre for Advanced Learning Technologies at the Rigsum Institute of IT & Management. We train faculty, instruct workshops 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. predictions has been actively pursued in the philosophy of science, the statistics literature has not considered it in a holistic way.