Workshop 282 - Best practices and recent advances in causal analyses
Lundi 5 mai 2025 / Monday, May 5th, 2025 |
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| 15:30 - 16:00 | Reception of participants |
| 16:00 - 16:15 | Welcome and presentation by the organizers |
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SESSION I |
INTRODUCTION TO KEY CONCEPTS IN CAUSAL INFERENCE |
| 16:15 - 17:00 | Formulating causal questions |
| Els Goetghebeur (Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium) | |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | Coffee break |
| 17:30 - 18:15 | Directed Acyclic Graphs |
| Karen Leffondré (INSERM U1219, Bordeaux, France) | |
| 18:15 - 19:00 | Conceptual and methodological strategies to study sex and gender effects in health |
| Hélène Colineaux (INSERM U1295, Toulouse, France) | |
| 19:30 | Dinner |
Mardi 6 mai 2025 / Tuesday, May 6th, 2025 |
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| 06:30 - 08:30 | Breakfast |
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SESSION II |
ESTIMANDS AND ESTIMATORS |
| 08:30 - 09:15 | Introduction to the causal effect of a simple static intervention: potential outcomes, g-formula, causal assumptions for identifiability |
| Benoît Lepage (INSERM U1295, Toulouse, France) | |
| 09:15 - 10:00 | Translating questions to estimands and dealing with intercurrent events |
| Elise Dumas (EPFL, Lausanne, Suisse) | |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Coffee break |
| 10:30 - 11:15 | Statistical tools for estimation: propensity scores, g-computation, doubly robust methods, marginal structural models |
| Arthur Chatton (Université de Montréal, Canada) | |
| 11:15 - 12:00 | Mediation analyses |
| Linda Valeri (Columbia University, USA) | |
| 12:00 - 14:00 | Lunch |
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SESSION III |
CAUSAL INFERENCE WITH LONGITUDINAL DATA |
| 14:00 - 14:45 | Methods for dealing with time-dependent confounding |
| Raphael Porcher (CRESS, Paris, France) | |
| 14:45 - 15:30 | Time to event outcomes and dealing with competing events |
| Jessica Young (Harvard University, Boston, USA) | |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Coffee Break |
| 16:00 - 16:45 | Dynamic propensity scores matching to evaluate the impact of time-dependent exposures |
| Yohann Foucher (CIC 1402, Poitiers, France) | |
| 16:45 - 17:30 | Emulation of clinical trials in the presence of immortal bias |
| Clémence Leyrat (LSHTM, London, United Kingdom) | |
| 17:30 - 18:15 | Causal mediation with intermediate and final outcomes measured repeatedly over time |
| Cécile Proust-Lima (INSERM U1219, Bordeaux, France) | |
| 19:30 - 20:15 | Cocktail |
| 20:15 | Dinner |
Mercredi 7 mai 2025 / Wednesday, May 7th, 2025 |
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| 06:30 - 08:30 | Breakfast |
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SESSION IV |
CAUSAL INFERENCE IN HIGH DIMENSIONAL SETTING |
| 08:30 - 09:15 | Challenges and solutions in high-dimensional settings |
| Stijn Vansteelandt (Ghent University, Belgium) | |
| 09:15 - 10:00 | Covariate selection strategies |
| Vanessa Didelez (BIPS institute, Leibniz/Bremen, Germany) | |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 - 11:15 | Healthcare databases analysis with targeted learning using lasso |
| TBD |
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| 11:15 - 12:00 | A statistical viewpoint on using marginal structural models (MSMs) for causal analysis |
| Antoine Chambaz (MAP5, Paris, France) | |
| 12:00 - 14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00 | Departure |