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    Course: A Crash Course in Causality: Inferring Causal Effects from Observational Data. Click here to go back.
    • 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