S5E6: Confounding is the Marcia Brady of Epidemiology

“Confounding, Confounding, Confounding” is like the epidemiologist’s version of “Marcia, Marcia, Marcia” from the Brady Bunch. To discuss Chapter 7 of Causal Inference: What If , we welcome Dr. Ashley Naimi. In this chapter, we discuss confounding as a central problem when estimating causal effects from observational data. The chapter emphasizes that confounding is not just an imbalance in…