Section outline

  • Lecture: Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs) and causal structures of different types of biases  

    Intro to causal inference; causal DAGs; DAGs and confounding; DAGs and selection bias.

    Faculty:  Cindy Leung

    Location:      Mission Hall 1406

    • Session slides:

    • Week #2 Slides: DAGs File
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    • Required Reading:

      Hernan and Robins 2014 (H&R2014), Part 1, Ch 6-9

    • Hernan & Robins - Part 1 File
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    • Discussion section readings and exercises:

    • Le-Scherban et al 2014 File
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    • Hernan et al 2001 File
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    • Ferrie et al 2013 File
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    • Sample DAG for Ferrie Atherosclerosis 2013 File
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    • Gage et al 2013 File
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    • Sample DAG for Gage AJE 2013 File
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