Causal Inference

Course Schedule

DateTopicsSlides
Part 1. Introduction  
2025-02-181-1. Introduction to Causal InferencePart 1-1
2025-02-251-2. Counterfactual Framework and Causal EstimandsPart 1-2
2025-03-041-3. Assumption and IdentificationPart 1-3
Part 2. Randomized Experiments  
2025-03-112-1. Treatment Assignment & Experimental DesignPart 2-1
2025-03-182-2. Completely Randomized ExperimentPart 2-2
2025-03-252-3. Covariate Imbalance in Randomized ExperimentsPart 2-3
Part 3. Observational Studies with Measured Confounding  
2025-04-013-1. Stratification and StandardizationPart 3-1 (update)
2025-04-013-1*. Causal Mediation Analysis (Intro)Part 3-1*
2025-04-153-2. Weighting and MatchingPart 3-2 (0422update)
2025-04-223-3. Propensity-Score MethodsPart 3-3
2025-05-063-4. Doubly Robust MethodsPart 3-4
Part 4. Observational Studies with Unmeasured Confounding  
2025-05-064-1. Front-door CriterionPart 4-1
2025-05-06 & 2025-05-134-2. Difference-in-Differences (DiD) MethodPart 4-2
2025-05-134-3. Instrumental VariablePart 4-3 (0520update)
Part 5. Sensitivity Analysis  
2025-05-205. Sensitivity AnalysisPart 5
Part 6. Causal Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs)  
(Coming soon)6-1. DAGs for selection bias and confounding bias(Coming soon)
(Coming soon)6-2. DAGs for measurement bias(Coming soon)
(Coming soon)6-3. DAGs for interaction and effect modification(Coming soon)
Part 8. Causal Inference for Longitudinal Data  
2025-05-278. Causal Inference in Longitudinal and Survival DataPart 8
Part 9. Multiple mediation analysis  
2025-06-039. Multiple mediation analysisPart 9

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