

It wasn’t clear at first why I needed to head in this direction, but when I approached my neighbor’s house from the sidewalk his door opened and he came out onto his porch and wanted to chat. I made a left at the corner instead of a right and walked towards a neighbor’s house. This day I felt the Spirit’s prodding and listened. Most days I wouldn’t have noticed this encouragement and if I did I would have ignored it, but this day was different. My ears were attuned to listening to the Spirit’s call for me and I felt a divine encouragement to take a different route than typical. My neighborhood Bible study was studying a book about the Spirit written by Francis Chan titled, Forgotten God. Please make sure you use the most updated version of the book posted here.I walked out my front door and onto the screened in porch, put on my shoes, and headed out on my daily afternoon walk. Warning: At this stage, we may still revise and correct errors without documenting the changes.

To cite the book, please use “Hernán MA, Robins JM (2020). We expect that the book will be of interest to anyone interested in causal inference, e.g., epidemiologists, statisticians, psychologists, economists, sociologists, political scientists, computer scientists… The book is divided in 3 parts of increasing difficulty: causal inference without models, causal inference with models, and causal inference from complex longitudinal data. Much of this material is currently scattered across journals in several disciplines or confined to technical articles.

Jamie Robins and I have written a book that provides a cohesive presentation of concepts of, and methods for, causal inference.
