Data

The datasets used in the course lecture notes are available here. Data for the labs (the raw eICU demo tables and the Lab 1 analytic dataset) ships inside each lab's starter bundle on the Labs page.

Course datasets

kidneys.csv Kidney length, age, and infection status for 350 kidneys in 180 young children; Example 1 of Carlin & Moreno-Betancur (2025), used throughout the regression weeks. The first line is a source URL, so read with skip = 1. CC BY 4.0. Carlin (2024), University of Melbourne, doi:10.26188/26973436.v1.
nhefs.csv NHANES I Epidemiologic Followup Study extract used in Hernán & Robins, Causal Inference: What If. Used in the Week 2 notes. US public-use survey data; freely redistributable for teaching.
NHEFS_Codebook.xls Variable codebook accompanying nhefs.csv. As above.

kidneys.csv attribution. Carlin JB (2024). Dataset on kidney lengths in young children for teaching purposes. University of Melbourne. doi:10.26188/26973436.v1 (CC BY 4.0).

nhefs.csv and NHEFS_Codebook.xls attribution. The NHEFS extract and its codebook accompany Hernán MA and Robins JM, Causal Inference: What If (Boca Raton: Chapman & Hall/CRC, 2020), and were obtained from the book's website, which also hosts the full text and related materials.