Short Course: Causal Inference
Short course, Nankai University, 2026
This is a short course at the Pacific Causal Inference Conference (PCIC 2026) held at Nankai University, Tianjin, China. This course targets graduate students, undergraduate students, clinicians, and statisticians in industry. This course is taught by Xiao-Hua Andrew Zhou, Yuhao Deng, and Chunyuan Zheng.
Outline:
Randomized Experiments;
Observational Studies: Ignorability;
Causal Graphs;
Mediation Analysis;
Principal Stratification;
Application of Causal Inference in Medical Research: Intercurrent Events;
Observational Studies: Non-Ignorability;
Attribution;
Deep Learning for Causal Effect Estimation in Complex Scenarios;
Applications of Causal Methods in Real-World Scenarios;