Course organizer 
Aliasghar Kiadaliri, aliasghar.ahmad_kiadaliri@med.lu.se

Credit
3hp
Language of instruction
English 

Target group
The course is intended for PhD students at the Faculty of Medicine working on non-randomized studies. The course is also open for post-doctoral and senior researchers with a course fee of 5000 SEK.

Prerequisites
Applied Statistics I & Applied Statistics II (or equivalent knowledge obtained elsewhere). Access to and skills in one of statistical software packages SPSS, STATA or R is also required.

Time
No time set. Planned for spring 2020.

Place 
Lund - Lecture room will be announced to the students before course start.

Number of participants
20

Course content
This course covers four main quasi-experimental designs used for impact evaluation in epidemiology and public health. Following subjects will be covered during the course:

• Causal Inference and counterfactuals
• Internal and external validity and their threats
• Difference-in-difference technique
• Interrupted time series analysis
• Regression discontinuity design
• Synthetic control method

Funding
This course receives financial support from EpiHealth (Epidemiology for Health) and LUPOP (Lund University Population Research Platform).