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 1407

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    • Required Reading:

      RGL 2008 Ch 12

      H&R 2015 Ch 6

    • Recommended Reading:

               H&R 2015 Ch7-9

    • Weng and Hertz-picciotto 2009 File
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    • Discussion section readings and homework assignments:

    • Homework for Week #2 File
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    • Le-Scherban Schooling AJE 2014 File
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    • Chen Obesity PD AJE 2004 File
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