Section outline

  • Lecture: Causal Inference in the Context of Observational Data: identifying threats to validity


     

    Faculty:  Maria Glymour

    Location:      Mission Hall 1106

    • Required Reading

       Winship C, Morgan SL. The estimation of causal effects from observational data. Annual Review of Sociology. 1999;25:659-706.

      ONLY NEED TO READ PAGES 659-669: This is an excellent paper but takes a lot of work to get through. 

    • Cook T, Shadish W, Wong V. Three conditions under which experiments and observational studies produce comparable causal estimates: New findings from within-study comparisons. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management. 2008;27(4):724-750. File
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    • Winship C, Morgan SL. The estimation of causal effects from observational data. Annual Review of Sociology. 1999;25:659-706. File
      Not available unless: Your ID number contains 02

    • Optional Reading:

        Cook T, Campbell D, Shadish W. Experimental and quasi-experimental designs for generalized causal inference: Houghton Mifflin; 2002. chapter 2, pg 37-

         

         

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