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Course: A Crash Course in Causality: Inferring Causal Effects from Observational Data. Click
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Welcome to "A Crash Course in Causality"
Confusion over causality
Potential outcomes and counterfactuals
Hypothetical interventions
Causal effects
Causal assumptions
Stratification
Incident user and active comparator designs
Confounding
Causal graphs
Relationship between DAGs and probability distributions
Paths and associations
Conditional independence (d-separation)
Confounding revisited
Backdoor path criterion
Disjunctive cause criterion
Observational studies
Overview of matching
Matching directly on confounders
Greedy (nearest-neighbor) matching
Optimal matching
Assessing balance
Analyzing data after matching
Sensitivity analysis
Data example in R
Propensity scores
Propensity score matching
Propensity score matching in R
Intuition for Inverse Probability of Treatment Weighting (IPTW)
More intuition for IPTW estimation
Marginal structural models
IPTW estimation
Assessing balance
Distribution of weights
Remedies for large weights
Doubly robust estimators
Data example in R
Introduction to instrumental variables
Randomized trials with noncompliance
Compliance classes
Assumptions
Causal effect identification and estimation
IVs in observational studies
Two stage least squares
Weak instruments
IV analysis in R