Section outline

  • Lecture: Confounding and Interaction II: Concepts of Interaction

    Strategies to minimize confounding; types of interaction; distinguishing interaction from confounding; assessing for interaction; tests of homogeneity; computer implementation

    Faculty:  Jeffrey Martin

    Location:  Mission Hall 1400

    • Session Slides:

    • Confounding and Interaction II 2019 Final Post File

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

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    • Recommended Reading:

    • S & N: Ch. 6 and Ch. 1, section 1.4.5 (section on Matching)

      dagitty.net, an open source browser-based environment for creating, editing, and analyzing directed acyclic graphs

    • Optional Reading:

    • VanderWeele TJ and Robins JM. Four types of effect modification: A classification based on directed acyclic graphs. Epidemiology 18: 561-568, 2007. File
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    • Knol MJ et al. When one depends on the other: Reporting of interaction. Epidemiology 20:161-166, 2009. File
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    • Knol MJ and VanderWeele TJ. Recommendations for presenting analyses of effect modification and interaction. International Journal of Epidemiology 41:514-520, 2012. File
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    • VanderWeele and Knol. Tutorial on interaction. Epidemiol Methods 3:33-72, 2014. File
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    • Lousdal ML. An Introduction to instrumental variable assumptions, validation and estimation. Emerging Theme Epid 15: 2018 File
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    • Assignment: Problem Set 10

    • Problem Set 10 Confounding and Interaction II 2019 File

    • Assignment Due Date:  December 3, 2019

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

    • Problem Set 10 Confounding and Interaction II 2019 Answer Key File
    • Problem Set 10 Confounding and Interaction II 2019 Answer Key File
    • Problem Set 10 Confounding and Interaction II 2019 Answer Key File