Key Information

This is the Spring 2021 syllabus page for PQHS / CRSP 500: Observational Studies, taught by Professor Thomas Love. The course is given on Thursdays from 8:30 to 11 AM via Zoom.

Course Home Page

The course home page, with links to everything else you’ll need, is at https://thomaselove.github.io/500.

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Course Text

As the semester progresses, we are going to read a book together. The book we’re reading is

  • Paul Rosenbaum’s Observation and Experiment: An Introduction to Causal Inference, published in 2017 by Harvard University Press. The ISBN-13 number is 978-0674975576. The book is available electronically or in hardcover from Amazon and other retailers. The schedule for reading the book is part of the course calendar

Additional sources will be presented and/or referenced in class, and those are gathered at the sources page of our web site.

Getting Help

To get help for anything related to the course, email 500-help at case dot edu to contact Dr. Love, and the TA, Wyatt Bensken.