Section outline

  • Lecture: Interaction/Effect Modification  (In-Person Lecture)

    Faculty: June Chan and Francois Rerolle

    Location: Mission Hall 1407

    • Session Slides (In-Person Lecture):

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

    • Session Slides/Video Recordings (Pre-Recorded):

      BEFORE class on Feb. 20, 2020, please view/review Parts 1-4 of Interaction/Effect Modification (listed on Feb. 20). You are responsible for the material in all parts, however note that Parts 1, 2a, and 2b may be more of a “review” for some. In particular, parts 2a and 2b may have been recently covered by Dr. Shiboski in BIO208. For these sections, you may wish to skim the slides, to ensure that you are familiar with the material but may opt not to watch the video lectures. Part 3 is a slide deck of definitions only (no video), and we will review some of this during the live lecture on 2/20. In the live lecture on 2/20, we will also be focusing on discussing interaction using the counterfactual framework.


    • Part 1 Intro Interaction EffMod winter 2019 Media Resource
    • Part 2a_rec_Model Coeff_Interaction EffMod v2 Media Resource
    • Part 2b_rec_Model Coeff_Interaction EffMod v2 Media Resource
    • No video for Part 3
    • Part4 rec Presenting EffMod winter 2019 REDO 190227 Media Resource
    • Part5 rec Interaction EffMod winter 2019 v2 Media Resource
    • Required Reading:

      VandeerWeele & Knol, “A Tutorial on Interaction”, Epidemiol Methods 2014, PARTS 1.1-1.7 only (parts 1.8, 1.9 and 2 are optional)

      Chapter 5, p. 71-76 (the rest of the chapter is optional) Rothman/Greenland/Lash 2008, Modern Epidemiology 3rd edition


    • VanderWeele.InteractionTutorial 2014 clean to post File
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    • Optional Reading:

      Hernan & Robins, Causal Inference online book, Ch. 4.1-4.3 and Ch. 5.1-5.3


    • Knol et al Int J Epid 2007 Interaction on Additive Scale File
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    • Note, this HW assignment contains minor updates for q10-12 (as of 5pm on 2/20), per the notes on the Forum and as follow-up to the discussion in class. Please be sure to re-download this version.

    • Assignment Due Date: February 27, 2020 at the beginning of lecture

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

    • HW6 interaction Ques Answ w2020 key to POST final File
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