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Activity Number: 337
Type: Topic Contributed
Date/Time: Tuesday, August 3, 2010 : 10:30 AM to 12:20 PM
Sponsor: ENAR
Abstract - #308078
Title: Nonidentifiability in the Context of Missing Confounders
Author(s): Lawrence McCandless*+
Companies: Simon Fraser University
Address: Faculty of Health Sciences, Burnaby, V5A 1S6, Canada
Keywords: Epidemiology ; Bayesian statistics ; Causal inference ; MCMC
Abstract:

Non-identifiable models frequently arise in epidemiology, which is concerned with exploring the cause and effect relationships between exposure and disease. One reason is because study participants are not randomly assigned to exposure groups, which makes it difficult to distinguish association from causation. Causal effects cannot be estimated without strong and untestable assumptions about how the data were generated. In this presentation I will discuss Bayesian analysis of non-identifiable models in epidemiology with special emphasis on the problem of missing confounders. The discussion will highlight MCMC sampler convergence and choosing appropriate prior distributions.


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