Third Short Course on Strengthening Causal Inference in Behavioral Obesity Research

Challenges for causal inference in obesity research

Improving Knowledge and Attitude of Nurses Working In Chemotherapy Wards through a Short Educational Course: A Successful Experience in Mashhad

Background: Cancer is the third leading cause of death in Iran. Novel chemotherapeutic agents can lead to considerable improvements in cancer treatment, although using these agents requires special skills and experiences. The aim of this study was to evaluate the impact of a short course education on nurses’ knowledge and attitude. Methods: Overall, 24 nurses participated in this short educatio...

UK Causal Inference Meeting 2015 Conference Programme : 15 th - 17 th April 2015

This is the third meeting in an initiative to organise a regular UK based meeting on causal inference as a collaborative effort across the methodology research community in the health and social sciences. The first meeting was held in Manchester in May 2013 and the second meeting was held in Cambridge in April 2014. UK-CIM aims to: provide a forum for people interested in causal inference to me...

Causal inference in studies and medical articles

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From Metaphysics to Method: Comments on Manipulability and the Causal Markov Condition

Daniel Hausman and James Woodward claim to prove that the causal Markov condition, so important to Bayes-nets methods for causal inference, is the ‘flip side’ of an important metaphysical fact about causation—that causes can be used to manipulate their effects. This paper disagrees. First, the premise of their proof does not demand that causes can be used to manipulate their effects but rather ...