<p>(Same as Psychiatry M232.) Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Requisites: courses 200C, 202B, or equivalent. Philosophical foundations, logical paradoxes, decision analysis, selection bias, confounding, ecological paradox, historical development, potential outcomes, Rubin causal model, propensity scores, competing perspectives on path analysis and graphical/structural-equation models, experiments with noncompliance, principal stratification, decision making when causality is disputed, role of ethics in decision making. S/U or letter grading.</p>

Biostatistics

The school aims to build health and equity, and to drive positive change for all people. The school acts on this mission through initiatives in three core areas: education, discovery, and service.

Jonathan and Karin Fielding School of Public Health

Biostatistics encompasses the methodology and theory of statistics as applied to problems in the life and health sciences.

General Catalog

Causal Inference

BIOSTAT M235

4 units