Section outline

  • Lecture: Confounding and Interaction I: General Principles

    Definition and manifestations of confounding; use of counterfactual model to conceptualize origins of confounding; confounding vs confounders; use of directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) to demonstrate and identify confounding and other bias; nuisance causal pathways; importance of defining the research question and understanding the biological system to prevent confounding

    Faculty:  Jeffrey Martin

    Location:  Mission Hall 1400

    • Session Slides:

    • Confounding I 2016 Final Post File

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

    • Recommended Reading:

    •   S & N: Ch. 5

    • Jewell, NP. Causal inference and extraneous factors: confounding and interaction. In Statistics for Epidemiology. Chapman and Hall. p. 93-112, 2003. File
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    • dagitty.net, an open source browser-based environment for creating, editing, and analyzing directed acyclic graphs. URL
    • DAGitty dot net instructions File
    • Notes on reading for Confounding and Interaction I File

    • Optional Reading:

    • Hernan M. Causal knowledge. AJE 156:176-184, 2002. File
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    • Cole S, Hernan M. Fallibility in estimating direct effects. IJE 31:163-165, 2002. File
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    • Greenland Pearl Robins. Causal diagrams for epidemiologic research. Epidemiology 10:37-48,1999. File
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    • Maldonado G and Greenland S. Estimating causal effects. Int J Epi 31:422-429, 2002. File
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    • Richiardi L et al. Mediation analysis in epidemiology IJE 42:1511-1519, 2013 File
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    • Assignment: Problem Set 9

    • Problem Set 9 Confounding and Interaction I 2016 [WORD version] File
    • Problem Set 9 Confounding and Interaction I 2016 [PDF version] File

    • Assignment Due Date:  November 15, 2016

    • Assignment Answer Key (Access restricted to registered students):