The dog that didn’t bark in the night-time: why finding nothing can be important
Discussing current epidemiological research into the causes of asthma and kidney disease, focusing on causal inference methods.
In epidemiology, causal inference is almost never done on the basis of a single study. Rather, it uses all of the available evidence at various levels (population, individual, clinical, molecular) in a triangulation approach. In this talk, we will discuss at current epidemiological research looking into the causes of asthma and kidney disease in order to illustrate these epidemiological approaches to causal discovery and causal inference.
The intended audience is both epidemiologists and statisticians who are interested in NCDs and/or in methods of causal inference, particularly approaches to epidemiological research which do not neatly fit into current "causal inference" theory. It will also provide an update on current international asthma and kidney disease research and is intended to foster discussion of the likely causes of these two conditions.
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- Neil Pearce, Professor of Biostatistics and Epidemiology at LSHTM
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