S5E8: Selection Bias: Colliders, Censoring, and Confusion

In this episode of SERious Epidemiology , Hailey and Matt are joined by Dr. Louisa Smith to discuss Chapter 8 of Causal Inference: What If on selection bias. The conversation explores how selection bias can arise through conditioning on a collider, how it differs from confounding, and how loss to follow-up and censoring can introduce bias even in randomized trials. A major theme of this episode is…