Section outline

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

    Theories of causal inference
    Causal models and heuristics
    Counterfactual effect measures

     

    Faculty:  Lydia B. Zablotska

    Location:      Mission Hall 1407

    • Prospectus:

    • Syllabus Epi Methods II Winter 2017 File
    • Course Introduction EPI 207 Winter 2017 File
    • Course Introduction Video URL

    • Session Slides:

    • Week #1 slides, revised after class on 01.20.2017 File

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

    • Required Reading:

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

    • Recommended Reading:

      Rothman 2012 (R2012) Chs 1-3

    • Cole and Frangakis 2009 File
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    • Introduction to CAP dataset:

    • Fradet Dietary omega-3 and prostate cr Clin Cancer Res 2009 File
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    • Intro to CAP dataset review Stata File
    • Intro_to_CAP dataset for STATA users File
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    • Discussion section readings and homework assignment:

    • Jain MMR ASD JAMA 2015 File
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    • Orr ABM JECH 2016 File
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    • Homework for Week #1 File
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    • Week #1 Homework Submission Assignment

      Submit your assignment here. Deadline is 01/20/2017 at 1PM.

      Available until January 20 2017, 1:00 PM
    • Sign up to present your work-in-progress Forum

      Student oral presentations of research-in-progress:

      Please let us know if you would like to make a short presentation about your research project in-progress during the week when we are covering topics of interest to you.  There is no better way to learn the theoretical material than to work on an actual project.  And, as a bonus, you will get feedback from the whole class and might even find a collaborator!

      General guidelines:

      Choose a week when we will be discussing a topic of interest to you.  Let us know about it in advance.  Prepare a short 5-min presentation of project in-progress during the week when we are covering topics of interest to you and formulate 2-3 questions for the class.

      Best student presentation wins a prize!

      Why should you consider doing this:

      1. You get extra points on your final grade.
      2. There is no better way to learn the theoretical material than to work on an actual project. 
      3. You will get feedback from the whole class and might even find a collaborator!

      Best student presentation wins a prize! At the end of the course we will select the best presentation by popular vote. The winner will receive an excellent book by R. E. Harris, Epidemiology of Chronic Disease: Global Perspectives.