Introduction to Instrumental Variables
Based
Methods for Causal Inference
in Health Research
EnRICH (Research Innovations & Challenges) Webinar
Maternal Child Health Research Program
Please join us on:
Monday, March 14, 2016
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm ET
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Objectives
- Understand the situations in which instrumental variables can be useful in health research
- Describe the assumptions and interpretations for instrumental variables based effect estimates
- Learn examples of instrumental variables used in health research, including policy differences, genetic variants, and other examples
- Learn basic concepts for implementing instrumental variables analyses and understand whether the methods are feasible in your research setting
Guest Speaker
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Maria Glymour, Ph.D. Dr. Maria Glymour is
an Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at
the University of California, San Francisco, where she directs the UCSF PhD
program in Epidemiology and Translational Science. |