12th Summer Institute in Statistics and
Modeling in Infectious Diseases
CAUSAL INFERENCE
Summer 2020
Instructors
Thomas Richardson PhD
Michael Hudgens PhD
Professor
Department of Statistics
Department of Biostatistics
University of Washington
University of North Carolina
E-mail: tsr [at] stat [dot] washington [dot] edu
Email: mhudgens@bios.unc.edu
Lecture Notes
Introduction
Dependence, confounding and collapsibility
Directed acyclic graphs, d-separation
G-methods (Hernan and Robins book)
SWIGs: graphs and counterfactuals
Direct effects
Interference
Instrumental variables and non-compliance
Code and Data
Introduction R code
R packages
R labs
NHEFS data codebook xls csv sas7bdat
MSM R code SAS code
G formula R code SAS code
G estimation R code SAS code
Department of Biostatistics, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina. Last updated: 20 July 2020