S4E7: Instrumental Variables

In this episode, Hailey and Matt discuss whether IVs are rebellious or magical or the midlife crisis of methods. We talk about how they deal with confounding problems. We talk about how they are used to attempt to mimic randomization and the assumptions for IVs. We talk about why it’s so helpful to think about who gets the exposure and why for causal inference. We talk about how IVs fit in with the target trial framework and wham it might tell us about how to teach intro epi. We talk about what estimand IVs estimate. And we relitigate the soda vs pop discussion.

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S4E7: Instrumental Variables is an episode from SERious EPI by Sue Bevan - Society for Epidemiologic Research.

This episode is 49:29 long.

This episode was published on Feb 15, 2025.

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