Applied Causal Inference in Health Research

Graduate Prerequisites: ((SPHBS 723 OR SPHBS 730) AND (SPHBS 852 OR SPHEP 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.