Overview

1. Today we will discuss overview of the lecture materials (30 mins).

• research goals
• Steps
  • General uses of propensity score approach
• assumptions
  • causal consistency

2. Then we will discuss the questions received from the students (20 mins).

• extensions to automatic interaction detection
• extensions to categorical exposure
• extensions to continuous exposure
• extensions to multi-level structure

3. Show some published examples from the literature (40 mins).