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 1402

    • Session slides:

    • Week 5 DAGs post File
    • Week 5 DAGs File

    • Dr. Leung's DAG:

      Cindys DAG from the blackboard.jpg

    • Session Audio/Video Recording (Access restricted to registered students):

    • Required Reading:

      RGL 2008 Ch 12

      H&R 2015 Ch 6

    • Optional Reading:

               H&R 2015 Ch7-9

    • Examples of DAGs for recently published studies:

    • 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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    • Discussion section readings and homework assignments:

    • Le-Scherban et al 2014 File
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    • Hernan et al 2001 File
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    • Assignment Answer Key (access restricted to registered students):