Week 4

DAGs, confounders, and controls

Materials for meeting on

September 22, 2022

Prepare

  • Statistical Rethinking chapter 5: “The Many Variables & The Spurious Waffles”
  • Statistical Rethinking chapter 6: “The Haunted DAG & The Causal Terror”
  • Statistical Rethinking 2022, lecture 5: “Elemental Confounds”
  • Statistical Rethinking 2022, lecture 6: “Good and Bad Controls”

Practice