Section outline

  • Lecture: Introduction: Causal theories and interrelationships between measures of disease occurrence

    Theories of causal inference; causal diagrams and other models for evaluation of causation; counterfactual effect measures: rate ratios, risk ratios and odds ratios, measures of attributable risk, effect measures vs. measures of association.

    Faculty:  Lydia B. Zablotska

    Location:  
    Mission Hall 1406

    • Session Slides:

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    • Required Reading:

      Rothman, Greenland and Lash 2008 (RGL2008) Chs 2, 4, 12

    • Recommended Reading:

      Rothman 2012 (R2012) Chs 1-3