Welcome! The Causal Reading Group is comprised of epidemiologists, biostatisticians, statisticians, econometricians, medical doctors, and social scientists who have an interest in causality. The reading group is open to anyone with an interest in causality, causal modelling, causal inference, or applications of the methods.
All meetings are held held 2:30-3:45 in Room 138 of Ludmer Research & Training Building (Department of Psychiatry), 1033 Pine Avenue West. Each meeting immediately precedes a Biostatistics Seminar (4:00-5:00 PM) at Purvis Hall.
September 6
September 13
September 20: Raluca Ionescu-Ittu
September 27: Olli Saarela
Chib S, Greenberg E. Bayesian Matching for Causal Inference. Unpublished Manuscript
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October 4: Erin Strumpf
Basu A, Heckman JJ, Navarro-Lozano S, Urzua S. Use of Instrumental Variables in the Presence of Heterogeneity and Self-Selection:
an Application to Treatments of Breast Cancer Patients. Health Economics 2007; 16: 1133-1157.pdf
October 11
October 18
October 25
November 1
November 8: Jonathan Chevrier
November 15: Ian Shrier
Pearl J, Bareinboim E. Transportability Across Studies: A Formal Approach. Unpublished Manuscript
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November 22: Nassim Mojaverian & Menglan Pang
November 29: Robert Platt
January 18: Russell Steele
Greenland, S. Relaxation Penalties and Priors for Plausible Modeling of Nonidentified Bias Sources. Statistical Science 2009; 24(2): 195-210.
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January 25: Robert Platt
Egleston BL, et al. A tutorial on principal stratification-based sensitivity analysis: application to smoking cessation studies. Clin Trials 2010;7(3): 286-98.pdf
February 1: Jay Kaufman
VanderWeele TJ. Interaction Tests Under Exposure Misclassification. Unpublished Manuscript (currently under review)
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February 8: Sam Harper
Cole SR, Stuart EA. Generalizing evidence from randomized clinical trials to target populations: The ACTG 320 trial. Am J Epidemiol 2010;172(1): 107-15.
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March 1: Ben Rich
Nedelman JR, Rubin DB, Sheiner LB. Diagnostics for confounding in PK/PD models for oxcarbazepine. Stats in Med 2007; 26(2): 920-308.
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March 8: Genevieve Lefebvre
CRAINICEANU CM, DOMINICI F, PARMIGIANI G. Adjustment uncertainty in effect estimation. Biometrika 2008; 95(3): 635–651 doi: 10.1093/biomet/asn015
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March 15: Carmen Messerlian
Mumford SL, Schisterman EF, Siega-Riz AM, Gaskins AJ, Wactawski-Wende J, VanderWeele TJ.
Effect of dietary fiber intake on lipoprotein cholesterol levels independent of estradiol in healthy premenopausal women
Am J Epidemiol. 2011 Jan 15;173(2):145-56.pdf
March 22: Michal Abrahamowicz
Flanders WD, Klein M. Properties of 2 counterfactual effect definitions of a point exposure. Epidemiology 2007 Jul;18(4):453-60. pdf
March 29: David Stephens
Hui J, Rubin DB. Principal Stratification for Causal Inference With Extended Partial Compliance. Journal of the American Statistical Association March 2008, Vol. 103, No. 481pdf
April 5: Raluca Inoescu-Ittu
Til Sturmer, Kenneth J. Rothman, Jerry Avorn and Robert J. Glynn. Treatment Effects in the Presence of Unmeasured Confounding:
Dealing With Observations in the Tails of the Propensity Score Distribution - A Simulation Study. Am. J. Epidemiol. (2010) 172 (7): 843-854. pdf
September 14: Jay Kaufman
VanderWeele TJ, Vansteelandt S. Conceptual issues concerning mediation, interventions and composition. Statistics and Its Interface 2009; 2: 457–468.
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September 21: Igor Karp
Toh S, Hernández-Díaz S, Logan R, Robins JM, Hernán MA. Estimating absolute risks in the presence of nonadherence:
an application to a follow-up study with baseline randomization. Epidemiology 2010 Jul;21(4):528-39.
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September 28: Russ Steele
Hoffmann K, Pischon T, Schulz M, Schulze MB, Ray J, Boeing H. A statistical test for the equality of differently adjusted incidence rate ratios.
Am J Epidemiol 2008 Mar 1;167(5):517-22.
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Greenland S. Invited commentary: variable selection versus shrinkage in the control of multiple confounders. Am J Epidemiol 2008;167(5):523-9
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Pischon T, Schulze MB, Drogan D, Boeing H. The Authors Respond to “Variable Selection versus Shrinkage in Control of Confounders”
Am J Epidemiol 2008;167(5):530-1
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October 5:
CANCELLED DUE TO SICKNESS (Re-scheduled October 26)
October 12: David Stephens
McCandless LC, Gustafson P, Austin PC. Bayesian propensity score analysis for observational data. Statistics in Medicine 2009; 28:94–112.
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October 19: Ben Rich
Arjas E, Saarela O. Optimal Dynamic Regimes: Presenting a Case for Predictive Inference The International Journal of Biostatistics 2010; 6(2): Article 10
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October 26: Mireille Schnitzer and Robert W Platt
Young JG, Hernán MA, Picciotto S, Robins JM. Relation between three classes of structural models for the effect of a time-varying exposure on survival.
Lifetime Data Anal 2010 16(1):71-84.
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Young JG, Hernán MA, Picciotto S, Robins JM. Simulation from Structural Survival Models under Complex Time-Varying Data Structures.
Proceedings of the Joint Statistical Meetings 2010.
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November 2: Erica Moodie
Vansteelandt S. Estimation of controlled direct effects on a dichotomous outcome using logistic structural direct effect models. Biometrika 2010, xx, x, pp. 1–14
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November 9: Michael Regier
Dawid AP. Beware the DAG. J. of Machine Learning Research: Workshop and Conference Proceedings 2008; 6:59–86
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November 16: Michael Regier
VanderWeele TJ, Hernán MA, Robins JM. Causal Directed Acyclic Graphs and the Direction of Unmeasured Confounding Bias.
Epidemiology 2008; 19(5):720-728
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Additional paper if time permits:
Fleischer NL, Diez Roux AV. Using directed acyclic graphs to guide analyses of neighbourhood health effects: an introduction.
J Epidemiol Community Health 2008;62:842–846
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November 23: Yongling Xiao
Hernan MA, Cole SR, Margolick J, Cohen M, Robins JM. Structural accelerated failure time models for survival analysis in studies with time-varying treatments.
Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety 2005; 14(7): 477–491
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November 30: Erin Strumpf
Carpenter C, Dobkin C. The Effect of Alcohol Consumption on Mortality: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from the Minimum Drinking Age.
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 2009; 1(1): 164–182
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December 7: Raluca Ionescu-Ittu
Hernán MA, Robins JM. Instruments for causal inference: an epidemiologist's dream?
Epidemiology 2006 Jul;17(4):360-72.
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