Workshop led by Ryan Cook, Fielding School of Public Health that examines the use of inverse probability of treatment weighting for control of confounding in observational studies. Participants learned why IPTW works and how to apply it in their own research.
Oral presentation by Robert E. Weiss on December 2016 discussing risk factors related to maternal births through the lens of maternal education, religion, and socio-economics. The presentation provides estimates of infant mortality risk for each birth using a hierarchical Bayesian logit model.