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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |