What If? - Lecture Notes

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Welcome

This is a Quarto book project based on the textbook “What If?” by Miguel Hernán and James Robins.

The notes are available in multiple formats:

HTML Book: Navigate using the sidebar for a traditional book reading experience
RevealJS Slides: Each chapter also generates a presentation format with -slides.html suffix
PDF Handouts: Each chapter generates a PDF handout with -handout.pdf suffix
DOCX Documents: Each chapter generates a Microsoft Word document with .docx extension

0.1 About this project

These lecture notes follow the structure and content from What If? by Hernán MA, Robins JM.

---
title: "What If? - Lecture Notes"
format:
  html: default
  revealjs:
    output-file: index-slides.html
  pdf:
    output-file: index-handout.pdf
  docx:
    output-file: index.docx
---

# Welcome {.unnumbered}

This is a Quarto book project based on the textbook "What If?" by Miguel Hernán and James Robins.

The notes are available in multiple formats:

- **HTML Book**: Navigate using the sidebar for a traditional book reading experience
- **RevealJS Slides**: Each chapter also generates a presentation format with `-slides.html` suffix
- **PDF Handouts**: Each chapter generates a PDF handout with `-handout.pdf` suffix
- **DOCX Documents**: Each chapter generates a Microsoft Word document with `.docx` extension

## About this project

These lecture notes follow the structure and content from [What If? by Hernán MA, Robins JM](https://miguelhernan.org/whatifbook).

## Navigation

Use the sidebar to navigate between chapters. Each chapter is available as:
- A traditional HTML page (click the chapter name)
- RevealJS slides (add `-slides.html` to the chapter URL)
- PDF handout (add `-handout.pdf` to the chapter URL)
- DOCX document (replace `.html` with `.docx` in the chapter URL)