Applied Causial Inference in Health Research

SPH BS 807

Graduate Prerequisites: ((SPH BS 723 OR SPH BS 730) AND (SPH BS 852 OR SPH EP 854)) or consent of instructor. The course requires experience with logistic regression and survival analysis, and SAS or R coding. - This is an advanced statistics course, focused on application of causal inference methods in medical research. Topics covered include counterfactual outcomes, causal diagrams, mediation analysis, instrumental variable, and g- methods to deal with time-varying confounding. This course includes lectures, computer instructions, and discussion of reading material.

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