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Short Course: Introduction to Causal InferenceDate: Tuesday, April 14th, 2015 Location: School of Chemistry, University of Bristol Instructor: Miguel Hernan , Harvard School of Public Health Description of the course: The course will introduce fundamental concepts and tools for causal inference from observational data and randomized experiments, including causal directed acyclic graphs (DAGs), inverse probability (IP) weighting, and instrumental variables (IVs). Actual case studies, concrete examples and exercises will be used throughout. The course will be aimed at PhD students with statistical, epidemiological, medical, and social science backgrounds, as well as young researchers with an interest in causal inference. Programme: Information about the course can be found here. Please note that you are requested to do some pre-course reading. About the Instructor: Miguel Hernan is Professor in the Departments of Biostatistics and Epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health. His research and teaching are focused on methodology for causal inference, including comparative effectiveness research to guide policy and clinical decisions. He is working on the book Causal Inference (Chapman & Hall/CRC, 2015). PLEASE NOTE: Due to the limited number of places for the one-day course (50 places), we are not able to accept all applications for attendance. Please express your interest for attending this course using the registration form. We will confirm your registration via email at the end of February/early March 2015. Priority will be given to PhD students and Early Career Researchers and the remaining places will be allocated on a first-come, first-served base. At registration we will ask PhD students to provide the departmental email address of a person (supervisor or departmental secretary) who can confirm their status within their institution and support their request for attending the one-day workshop. Young Researcher's event: Upon completion of the course, participants are welcome to join us for drinks at Zero Degrees. |