Section outline

  • Lecture: Person-time and Bias  - Pre-Recorded, View on Own BEFORE Jan. 30

    View Parts 1-3 of Person-time and Bias lecture (listed on Jan 30) BEFORE coming to class on Jan 30, 2020.

     Fixed vs. open cohorts; the dynamic allocation of person-time in longitudinal cohorts; patient or survivor cohorts; particular bias issues discussed in the setting of patient cohorts (including selection bias, immortal-person time bias, measurement error bias, confounding by indication, and residual confounding); and how emulation of a target trial may help avoid some of these biases.

    Faculty:  June Chan