BMJ

Causal inference in physical activity epidemiology research: an opportunity for better evidence

Decades of research have established a significant link between physical activity and health, influencing agenda setting, policy making and community awareness.1–4 However, the field continues to ...
Diginomica

How causal analysis and AI intersect - methods of causal inference

Our foray into causal analysis is not yet complete. Until we define the methods of causal inference, we can't get to the deeper insights that causal analysis can provide. This article details many of ...
CU Boulder News & Events

Causal inference under selection on observables in operations management research: Matching methods and synthetic controls

The majority of recent empirical papers in operations management (OM) employ observational data to investigate the causal effects of a treatment, such as program or policy adoption. However, as ...
JSTOR Daily

Survival Bias in Mendelian Randomization Studies: A Threat to Causal Inference

It has been argued that survival bias may distort results in Mendelian randomization studies in older populations. Through simulations of a simple causal structure we investigate the degree to which ...
CU Boulder News & Events

Causal Inference and COVID: Contrasting Methods for Evaluating Pandemic Impacts Using State Assessments

This paper describes threats to making valid causal inferences about pandemic impacts on student learning based on cross-year comparisons of average test scores. The paper uses Spring 2021 test score ...
ascopubs.org

Evaluating Cancer Screening in the Era of Advanced Causal Inference Methods: Innovation, Adherence, and Health Equity Considerations

Despite the contributions of more than 700,000 men to randomized controlled trials (RCTs) of prostate cancer (PC) screening over several decades, it is still unclear whether there is a PC-specific ...