Biostatistical Methods to Address Confounding

This course is designed to teach epidemiology students the statistical principles of analysis specific to pharmacoepidemiology study designs including the use of propensity scores, inverse probability weighting, instrumental variables and time varying covariates. Each of the twelve sessions includes both a lecture component and a laboratory component. Students will learn the statistical principles and then apply them to example study datasets. Students must participate in all sessions and must have previously completed biostatistics for epidemiologic methods I and II (EPID 5260 A/B and 5270 A/B). Laboratory sessions will be conducted on students’ laptops using STATA software.