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Dr. Vancak Valentin
Department of Data Science
Lecturer
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Education

  • 2007
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    2010
    University of Haifa
    Statistics and Economics, B.A.
  • 2010
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    2013
    University of Haifa
    Statistics, M.A.
  • 2014
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    2020
    University of Haifa
    Statistics, Ph.D.
  • 2021
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    2023
    Karolinska Institutet
    Biostatistics, Postdoctoral researcher

Research Fields

  • Causal Inference
    • Instrumental variables
    • G-estimation
  • Efficacy indices analysis
    • NNT, NNE
  • Statistical theory
    • Estimation methods

Teaching Areas

  • Statistical theory and applications
  • Causal Inference
  • Statistical learning
  • Scientific programming
  • Mathematical Methods

Selected Publications

For all Publications Google Scholar
  • V. Vancak, Y. Goldberg, S.K. Bar-Lev, B. Boukai, (2015), Continuous Statistical Models – With or Without Truncation Parameters?, Mathematical Methods of Statistics, Link
  • V. Vancak, Y. Goldberg, S.Z. Levine, (2020), Systematic Analysis of the Number Needed to Treat, Statistical Methods in Medical Research, Statistical Methods in Medical Research, Link
  • V. Vancak, Y. Goldberg, S.Z. Levine, (2021), Guidelines to Understand and Compute the Number Needed to Treat, Evidence-Based Mental Health, Link
  • V. Vancak, Y. Goldberg, S.Z. Levine, (2022), The Number Needed to Treat Adjusted for Explanatory Variables and Survival Analysis: Theory and Application, Statistics in Medicine, Link
  • V. Vancak, A. Sjölander, (2023), Sensitivity analysis of G-estimators to invalid instrumental variables, Statistics in Medicine, Link
  • V. Vancak, A. Sjölander, (2024), Estimation of the Number Needed to Treat, the Number Needed to Expose, and the Exposure Impact Number with Instrumental Variables, Epidemiologic Methods, Link
  • V. Vancak, A. Sjölander, (2025), Definition, identification, and estimation of the direct and indirect number needed to treat, to appear in Epidemiologic Methods, Link
  • O. Elior, V. Vancak, H. Mosheiff, (2025), Students' Difficulties with the Discipline-Oriented Teaching of Programming: The Case of Teaching R, Under review,

Grants & Awards

International Projects