Undervisningsplan

Teaching facilities:

The course takes place at the University of Oslo, at the buildings Domus Odontologica (DO) and Rikshospitalet?

Teachers:

Professor Odd O. Aalen, Department of Biostatistics, IMB (course leader)

Postdoc Jon Michael Gran, Department of Biostatistics, IMB

Researcher Kjetil R?ysland, Department of Biostatistics, IMB

Senior researcher Hein Stigum, Norwegian Institute of Public Health

Theis Lange, University of Copehagen

Monday 15. October

08.30-09.00: Registration. (Outside Lille Auditorium in Domus Medica (DM) )

Location of today¡¯s lectures: Seminarroom 2, B2.U002, Rikshospitalet

09.00-11.00: What is causality? Some general concepts. Counterfactual and mechanistic causality. Speaker: Aalen.

11.15-12.00: Group discussion. (Aalen). Group rooms in Domus Medica, at entrance to Avdeling for Biostatistikk: 2227A, 2227B, 2228B, 2228C DM

12.00-13.00: Lunch break

13.00-13.15: Discussion of group exercise. (Aalen)

13.15-16.00: Introduction to causal graphs (DAGs). Speaker: Stigum.

Tuesday 16. October

Location: GA02 A1.1004 Seminarroom DO

08.30-12.00: Analyzing DAGs with examples and exercises. Speaker: Stigum.

12.00-13.00: Lunch break

13.00-14.00: Analyzing DAGs with examples and exercises cont. Speaker: Stigum.

14.15-16.00: Understanding direct and indirect effects. Speaker: Aalen.

Wednesday 17.October

Location: GA02 A1.1004 Seminarroom DO

08.30-12.00: Counterfactual causality, inverse probability weighting, g-estimation. Including exercises with simple calculation (using calculators) Speaker: Gran.

12.00-13.00: Lunch break

13.00-14.30: Time-dependent confounding and Marginal Structural Models. Speaker: Gran.

14.30-15.30: Group discussion. (Gran). Auditorium + group rooms GA01 1154, GA01 1347, GA01 2134 og GA01 2176 DM

15.40-15.55: Plenary discussion of exercise. (Gran)

Thursday 18.October

Location: GA02 A1.1004 Seminarroom DO

08.30-09.15: Seeing versus doing. Counterfactual causality. Speaker: R?ysland.

09.30-10.30: Survival analysis ¨C beyond the Cox model. Speaker: Aalen.

10.45-12.00: Local independence. Case study. Speaker: R?ysland.

12.00-13.00: Lunch break

13.00-15.00: Direct and indirect effects in survival analysis. Speaker: Lange

15.15-15.45: Overview of the course. Closure. (Aalen).

Course exam:

A take home exam will be handed out at the end of the course. This should be solved at home and then returned within a specified deadline.