A must-read piece led by @margaritamb.bsky.social with John Carlin and @rush-099.bsky.social (now in press in Epidemiology)
#EpiSky #CausalSky #CausalInference #OpenScience✨
Clinical Epi & Biostatistics Unit (CEBU)
NEW PAPER! (in press in EPIDEMIOLOGY)
Have you wondered:
- How to specify a target trial: as an ideal trial or something else?
- What biases do target trial emulations and actual RCTs share?
- How does it all relate to potential outcomes?
Read here! 👉 arxiv.org/abs/2405.10026
#EpiSky #CausalSky
arxiv.org
Causal inference is the goal of randomized trials and many observational studies. The first step in a formal causal inference framework is to define the causal estimand, and in both types of study thi...
