2008 Mid-Atlantic Causal Inference Conference
May 19-20, 2008
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
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Symposium 1: Sensitivity analysis for causal models
- E. Goetghebeur: Sense and sensitivity when estimating causal effects in clinical trials
- J. Hogan: Discussion
Symposium 2: Causal inference in multilevel data structures
- F. Li: Propensity score analysis with hierarchical data
- K. Imai: The Essential Role of Pair Matching in Cluster-Randomized Experiments, with Application to the Mexican Universal Health Insurance Evaluation
- J. Hill: Discussion
Keynote address
- P. Rosenbaum: A recent observational study used to illustrate recent methodology for such studies
- Related software: Balanced matching
Symposium 3: Methods for mediation analysis
- B. Egleston: Investigating mediation when counterfactuals are not metaphysical: Does sunlight exposure mediate the effect of eye-glasses on cataracts?
- M. Joffe: Extended instrumental variables methods
- M. Elliott: Discussion