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Ort: Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin, Reichpietschufer 50, 10785 Berlin, Raum B002/003.

Main content can be seen at: Causal inference and experimental design (https://macartan.github.io/ci/)

The course is primarily lecture and exercise based. We will not discuss readings in class, though some are relevant for different exercises. I do recommend the readings both for giving background to the lectures and for going beyond the lectures. I will draw material especially from two recent books, both open access: • Research Design in the Social Sciences and Integrated Inferences Recommended texts include Hernán and Robins (forthcoming), Cunningham’s “mixed tape”, and Pearl’s primer. Recommended non open access readings include: Gerber and Green (2012) with supplementary material available here: https://isps.yale.edu/FEDAI

Regular Assignments in R (5 ECTS) plus term paper (10 ECTS)

• Good knowledge of Descriptive and Inferential Statistics
• Programming skills in R