This 5-day course will provide hands-on training for causal inference using health databases. Students will learn the principles of target trial emulation and how to implement them for causal research with real-world data. Causal inference from observational data can be conceptualized as an attempt to emulate a pragmatic randomized trial—the target trial. Through a combination of lectures and hands-on sessions, the course introduces the target trial emulation framework in increasingly complex settings and dissects examples of emulations in the health sciences and related fields. Students will learn how to design target trial emulations and carry out appropriate causal analyses of healthcare databases such as administrative claims and electronic health records. All sessions will offer a choice between R and SAS.
Application
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