Our first event of the new season takes place one month from today:
Wednesday 7th October: Concepts and methods in causal mediation analysis.
Speakers: Bianca DeStavola (Professor of Biostatistics & Co-Director of the LSHTM Centre for Statistical Methodology) & Rhian Daniel (Lecturer) from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Time: 13:30-16:30.
Place: Ben Cruachan seminar room, MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow, top floor, Herald Building, 200 Renfield Street, Glasgow, G2 3QB. ***We are hosting this event jointly with the MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit.***
Summary: The aim of many research areas may involve the study of how the effect
of a particular exposure on the outcome of interest is mediated by
intermediate factors. Although the study of mediation is well
established in the social and behavioural sciences, and often loosely
attempted in epidemiology, developments in modern causal inference have
highlighted the limitations of these 'classical' approaches and led to
new definitions based on counterfactuals and novel estimation methods
that deal with specific challenges such as intermediate confounding. In
this workshop we will present and compare these two approaches and
stress the greater rigour and generality permitted by the potential
outcomes framework.
Places are limited, and can be booked only by registering at https://sites.google.com/site/rssglasgow/events
We look forward to welcoming as many of you as possible,
RSS Glasgow Local Group committee
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