ECTS: 2.6
Course leader: Cathrine Carlsen Bach
Language: English
Graduate school: Faculty of Health
Graduate program: PH
Course fee: 3,120.00 DKK
Status: Course is open for application
Semester: Spring 2025
Application deadline: 17/02/2025
Cancellation deadline: 03/03/2025
Course type: Classroom teaching
Start date: 17/03/2025
Administrator: Johanne Gregor Højgaard
The course P237 Which covariates to adjust for: An introduction to causal directed acyclic graphs is being offered by the Graduate School of Health, Aarhus University, 2025.
Criteria for participation: University degree in medicine, dentistry, nursing, or Master’s degree in other fields and/or postgraduate research fellows (PhD students and research-year medical students).
Aim: The course aims to provide participants with an introduction to the use of directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) as a tool to control for confounding and other sources of bias. Moreover, the course will include a simple method to reason about the directions of potential biases. After the course, participants will be able to use DAGs as a practical tool in their own research.
Learning outcomes:
- To understand the basic anatomy of directed acyclic graphs (DAGs)
- To draw and apply DAGs for selection of covariates to account for confounding
- To draw and apply DAGs to illustrate potential selection bias
- To draw and apply DAGs to illustrate potential information bias
- To draw and apply signed DAGs to estimate the potential direction of bias in a research project
Workload: The full workload of the course is expected to be 26 hours
Content: A comprehensive introduction to DAGs will be provided along with the opportunity for participants to work with DAGs in relation to their own studies. Please note that this course focuses on quantitative research within the medical field.
Instructors: Niels Bjerregård Matthiesen, Chunsen Wu, Cathrine Carlsen Bach.
Venue: Aarhus University, Aarhus (other)
Participation in the course is without cost for:
- PhD students, Health Research Year students from Aarhus University
- PhD students enrolled at partner universities of the Nordoc collaboration
- PhD students from other institutions in the open market agreement for PhD courses
Course dates:
- 17 March 2025 08:30 - 15:00
- 24 March 2025 08:30 - 15:15
- 25 March 2025 08:30 - 15:45