We meet every second Wednesday in NA2803 at ErasmusMC and through Teams if you’re not in Rotterdam.

You can also email me if you are interested in causal inference and would like to join our meetings: j [dot] labrecque [at] erasmusmc [dot] nl.

2025 Schedule

Fall 2025

Date Topic
October 29 Sections 6.1.1 and 6.1.2 from Bareinboim book
November 12 Sections 6.1.3 from Bareinboim book
November 26 Sections 6.1.4 from Bareinboim book
December 10 Sections 6.1.5 from Bareinboim book

Winter/spring 2025

Date Topic
January 8 What is an ideal trial?
January 22
February 5 Peng Ding’s book Chapter 2 and 3
February 19 Malte’s Midterm Presentation
March 5 Peter Socha on interesting perinatal estimands
March 19 Imputing from the future?
April 2
April 16
April 30
May 8
May 22
June 5
June 19

Fall 2024

Date Topic
September 4 Chapter 23 from What if: Mediation
September 18 Chang presenting about the difference between Rubin and Pearl
October 2
October 16
October 30 Jeremy returns
November 13 Without Commitment to an Ontology, There Could Be No Causal Inference
November 27 Keling’s MSc thesis defense: Causal language use in clinical practice guidelines for diabetes mellitus: evaluation of causality and alignments
December 4 Maurice will talk about selection diagrams

Winter/Spring 2024

Date Topic
January 10 Chapter 12 from What if: IPTW and outcome regression
January 24 Sjoerd midterm presentation
February 7
Februrary 21
March 6 Nina: TMLE
March 20 Maurice: Estimands in decision models
April 3 Chapter 14 from What If: G-estimation of structural nested models
April 17 Chang presenting about consistency
May 1 Chapter 13 from What If: Standardization and the parametric g-formula
May 15
May 29
June 12
June 26