[gov3009-l] One Day Course in Causal Inference

Hi Everyone, Attached is announcement for a one-day course on causal inference that will be given on April 13th by Professors James M. Robins, Miguel Hernan, and Andrea Rotnitzky. See you all Wednesday! Shigeo Saturday, April 13, 2002 One-Day Course: Causal Inference from Observational and Experimental Studies. Faculty: Professors James M. Robins, Miguel Hernan, and Andrea Rotnitzky Harvard School of Public Health Program on Causal Inference in Epidemiology and Allied Sciences This one-day course covers statistical methods for causal inference, with emphasis on complex longitudinal data. Topics covered will include the following: -> Association vs. Causation: An Introduction to the Problem of Causal Inference including a review of Point Treatment Studies, Instrumental Variables, and Propensity Scores. -> Counterfactual, structural equation, and directed acyclic graph causal models for causality and their interrelationship; -> Recent advances in instrumental variable methods with censored and discrete responses. -> Recent advances in the analysis of the effect of sequential actions, time-varying treatments, and direct and indirect effects using inverse probability of treatment-weighted estimation of marginal structural models and g-estimation of structural nested models. The course should be of particular interest to researchers who are faced with drawing causal inferences or making decisions concerning appropriate treatments or interventions based on observational or experimental data, including sociologists, economists, political scientists, epidemiologists, statisticians, and operations research, machine learning, and artificial intelligence researchers. Time: 9:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Cost: $40 Please RSVP to Sue Perry (sperry(a)rhoworld.com) by Tuesday, April 9. Location: Center for Basic Research in the Social Sciences 34 Kirkland St. Cambridge, MA 02138 http://www.cbrss.harvard.edu/map.htm Directions: Red line to Harvard Square __________________________________________________________________ Shigeo Hirano Political Economy and Government shirano(a)fas.harvard.edu Harvard University