BSTA 790 FALL 2008

CAUSAL INFERENCE IN BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH

instructors :: course information :: programs :: class notes :: homeworks

   instructors

Marshall Joffe
Associate Professor
Division of Biostatistics, CCEB
Course Director email: mjoffe@mail.med.upenn.edu

  course info

Location: Blockley Hall – Room 505
Time: Tuesdays and Thursdays– 10:30am – 12:00pm
View the syllabus (PDF)

  programs

  class notes

Introduction - 9/8/08

Potential Outcomes - 9/8/08

Nonparametric Bounds - 9/8/08

Simple Randomized Trials - 9/11/08

Observational Studies - 9/17/08

Propensity Scores - 10/2/08

Sensitivity Analysis - 10/16/08

Graphical Models - 10/28/08

Direct and Indirect Effects - 11/10/08

Instrumental Variables - 11/10/08

Noncompliance - 11/18/08

Principal Stratification - 11/25/08

Time Varying Treatments - 11/25/08

homeworks

Assignment 2 - 9/17/08

 readings

  STATLAB Handouts