EPID 7350 - CAUSAL INFERENCE FOR EPIDEMIOLOGIC RESEARCH

[2 Credits]

This doctoral level course presents an introduction to contemporary theory, methods, and application of causal inference for epidemiologic research. The main topics of the course are the construction and application of graphical causal models, the counterfactual framework, and the conditions and techniques for estimating total effects, direct and indirect effects (i.e., mediation analysis) and the effects of time-varying variables through g-methods.