The following UC Berkeley courses are taught by members of CTML on topics revelant to biostatistics, causal inference, and targeted learning. Instructions for how to enroll can be found on each course's page.
Fall 2023 Courses
PH252E: Advanced Topics in Causal Inference
Course Instructor: Alan Hubbard
Course Catalog Description:
The course will be conducted as a seminar with readings and discussions on a range of more advanced topics. We will cover case-control designs; longitudinal causal models, identifiability and estimation; direct and indirect effects; dynamic regimes (individualized treatment rules); approaches for diagnosing and responding to violations in the positivity assumption. Additional topics may include stochastic interventions, community-based interventions, and Collaborative-TMLE. There will also be some guest lectures and presentations from current students and faculty members.
PH C242C: Longitudinal Data Analysis
Course Instructor: Alan Hubbard
Course Catalog Description:
Course covers statistical issues surrounding estimation of effects using data on units followed through time. Course emphasizes a regression model approach for estimating associations of disease incidence modeling, continuous outcome data/linear models & longitudinal extensions to nonlinear models forms (e.g., logistic). Course emphasizes complexities that repeated measures has on the estimation process & opportunities it provides if data is modeled appropriately. Most time is spent on 2 approaches: mixed models based upon explicit (latent variable) maximum likelihood estimation of the sources of the dependence, versus empirical estimating equation approaches (generalized estimating equations). Primary focus is from the analysis side.
PH C240B: Biostatistical Methods: Survival Analysis and Causality
Course Instructor: Mark van der Laan
Course Catalog Description:
Analysis of survival time data using parametric and non-parametric models, hypothesis testing, and methods for analyzing censored (partially observed) data with covariates. Topics include marginal estimation of a survival function, estimation of a generalized multivariate linear regression model (allowing missing covariates and/or outcomes), estimation of a multiplicative intensity model (such as Cox proportional hazards model) and estimation of causal parameters assuming marginal structural models. General theory for developing locally efficient estimators of the parameters of interest in censored data models. Computing techniques, numerical methods, simulation and general implementation of biostatistical analysis techniques with emphasis on data applications.
PH 243A: Targeted Learning
Course Instructor: Mark van der Laan
Course Catalog Description:
PH 243A teaches students to construct efficient estimators & obtain robust inference for parameters that utilize data-adaptive estimation strategies (i.e., machine learning). Students perform hands-on implementation of novel estimators using high-dimensional data structures, providing students with a toolbox for analyzing complex longitudinal, observational & randomized control trial data. Students learn & apply the core principles of the Targeted Learning methodology, which generalizes machine learning to any estimand of interest; obtains an optimal estimator of the given estimand, grounded in theory; integrates state-of-the-art ensemble machine learning techniques; & provides formal statistical inference in confidence intervals & testing.
Courses Taught Previously by CTML Faculty
PH243A: Targeted Learning
Course Instructor
Mark van der Laan
Course Catalog DescriptionPH 243A teaches students to construct efficient estimators & obtain robust inference for parameters that utilize data-adaptive estimation strategies (i.e., machine learning). Students perform hands-on implementation...Read more about PH243A: Targeted Learning
PHC242C: Longitudinal Data Analysis
Course Instructor
Alan Hubbard
Course Catalog DescriptionThe course covers the statistical issues surrounding estimation of effects using data on subjects followed through time. The course emphasizes a regression model approach and discusses disease incidence modeling and both...Read more about PHC242C: Longitudinal Data Analysis
PH 142: Introduction to Probability and Statistics in Biology and Public Health
Course Instructor
Dr. Alan Hubbard
Course Catalog DescriptionPH 142 is an introduction to statistics and data science, primarily for MPH and undergraduate public health majors, and others interested in public health majors. The course material focuses on the biomedical applications...Read more about PH 142: Introduction to Probability and Statistics in Biology and Public Health