Causal inference in biomedical research

Causal Inference in Educational Policy Research

With the passage of No Child Left Behind (NCLB), attention has focused on the need for evidenced-based educational research, particularly educational policies and interventions that rest on what NCLB refers to as ”scientifically based research”. In practice, this focus on scientifically based educational research has translated into a preference for research studies based on the principles of r...

Challenges for causal inference in obesity research

Causal inference in studies and medical articles

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A review of causal inference for biomedical informatics

Causality is an important concept throughout the health sciences and is particularly vital for informatics work such as finding adverse drug events or risk factors for disease using electronic health records. While philosophers and scientists working for centuries on formalizing what makes something a cause have not reached a consensus, new methods for inference show that we can make progress i...

Untangling the triple low: causal inference in anesthesia research.

1 July 2014 I N 1965, Sir Austin Bradford Hill1 published a landmark article in which he considered under what circumstances could a clinician convert an observed association into a verdict of causation. In other words, if there is a link between a risk factor and an adverse outcome, does it hold true that removing or reducing this risk factor will reduce the risk of that adverse outcome occurr...