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Starting the Conversation on Models with Alyssa Bilinski | Season 5 Episode 1110 Jul 202400:48:12

Alyssa Bilinski, Peterson Family Assistant Professor of Health Policy, and Assistant Professor of Biostatistics, at Brown University School of Public Health. Her research focuses on developing novel methods for policy evaluation and applying these to identify interventions that most efficiently improve population health and well-being.

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Flexible methods with Edward Kennedy | Season 5 Episode 1026 Jun 202400:38:57

Edward Kennedy Associate Professor, Department of Statistics & Data Science, Carnegie Mellon.

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Pros and Cons of Randomized Controlled Trials | Season 5 Episode 121 Feb 202400:17:55

Ellie and Lucy kick off the season and introduce our new executive buzzer, Melita! Melita is a masters student in statistics at Wake Forest University and will be helping out with the podcast (and keeping Lucy and Ellie from using too much jargon!)

Pros & Cons of RCT paper:Ā 

  • Fernainy, P., Cohen, A.A., Murray, E. et al. Rethinking the pros and cons of randomized controlled trials and observational studies in the era of big data and advanced methods: a panel discussion. BMC Proc 18 (Suppl 2), 1 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12919-023-00285-8

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Remembering Ralph B. D'Agostino, Sr.02 Oct 202300:49:37
We are re-releasing an episode from 2021 in remembrance of Ralph D'Agostino, Sr.Ā 

Ellie Murray and Lucy D’Agostino McGowan chat with Ralph D’Agostino Sr. and Ralph D’Agostino Jr. about their careers in statistics, looking back at how things have developed and forward at where they see the world of statistics and epidemiology going.Ā 

Ralph D’Agostino Sr. was a professor of Mathematics/Statistics, Biostatistics, and Epidemiology at Boston University. He was the lead biostatistician for the Framingham Heart Study, a biostatistical consultant to The New England Journal of Medicine, an editor of Statistics in Medicine and lead editor of their Tutorials, and a member and consultant on FDA committees. His major fields of research were clinical trials, prognostic models, longitudinal analysis, multivariate analysis, robustness, and outcomes/effectiveness research.Ā 

Ralph D’Agostino Jr. is a professor in the Department of Biostatistics and Data Science at Wake Forest University where he is the Director of the Biostatistics Core of the Comprehensive Cancer Center. Methodologically his research includes developing statistical techniques for evaluating data from observational settings, handling missing data in applied problems, and developing predictive functions to identify prospectively patients at elevated risk for future negative outcomes. Some of his recent work includes the development of methods using propensity score models to identify safety signals in large retrospective databases.Ā 

Evidence Science with Cat Hicks | Season 4 Episode 1117 Jul 202300:49:41

Ellie and Lucy chat with Dr. Cat Hicks, VP of Research Insights and Director of Developer Success Lab at Pluralsight Flow, about evidence science.Ā 

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M-Bias: Much Ado About Nothing? | Season 4 Episode 1024 Apr 202300:38:55

Lucy D'Agostino McGowan and Ellie Murray chat about a "Causal Quartet" and spend some extra time on M-Bias!


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Lucy, Travis, & Malcom's Causal Quartet Paper

Lucy's quartets R package

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Thinking about Targeted Learning | Season 4 Episode 911 Apr 202300:46:02

Lucy D'Agostino McGowan and Ellie Murray chat about ENAR 2023 and Targeted Learning!

Targeted Learning in R Handbook

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Prevention Strategies via the #Epicookiechallenge | Season 4 Episode 829 Mar 202300:38:12

Lucy D'Agostino McGowan and Ellie Murray chat with #EpiCookieChallenge winner, Viktoria Gastens!

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Sensitivity Analyses for Unmeasured Confounders | Season 4 Episode 714 Mar 202300:38:46

Lucy D'Agostino McGowan and Ellie Murray chat about confounding!

āœļøĀ Lucy's new paper: Sensitivity Analyses for Unmeasured Confounders

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Randomized Controlled Trials: Efficacy versus Effectiveness, Safety vs Safetiness | Season 4 Episode 628 Feb 202301:07:25

Lucy D'Agostino McGowan and Ellie Murray chat about randomized controlled trials, thinking about efficacy vs effectiveness and saftey vs safetiness.

āœļø Frank Harrell's blog post "Randomized Clinical Trials Do Not Mimic Clinical Practice, Thank Goodness"

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The Value of Instrumental Variables with Maria Glymour | Season 4 Episode 510 Dec 202201:00:22

Lucy D'Agostino McGowan and Ellie Murray chat with Maria Glymour, Professor of Epidemiology & Biostatstics at UCSF and incoming chair of the Department of Epidemiology at Boston University. Maria successfully convinces Ellie and Lucy that instrumental variables can be very useful in epidemiology.Ā 

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āœļø Andrew Heiss's blog post on marginal and conditional effects for GLMMs

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Methods chat about personalized medicine and positivity in causal inference | Season 4 Episode 430 Nov 202200:51:43

Lucy D'Agostino McGowan and Ellie Murray chat about critiquing methods research, average treatment effects, and positivity violations!

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What Sports and Feminism can tell us about Causal Inference with Sheree Bekker & Stephen Mumford | Season 5 Episode 912 Jun 202400:49:43

Sheree Bekker & Stephen Mumford are Co-directors of the Feminist Sport Lab and have a book coming soon: ā€œOpen Play: the case for feminist sportā€, coming Spring 2025. Reaktion Books (UK), University of Chicago Press (US).

Sheree Bekker: Associate Professor, University of Bath, Department for Health,

Stephen Mumford, Professor of Metaphysics, Durham UniversityĀ  A

  • Author of Dispositions (Oxford, 1998), Russell on Metaphysics (Routledge, 2003), Laws in Nature (Routledge, 2004), David Armstrong (Acumen, 2007), Watching Sport: Aesthetics, Ethics and Emotion (Routledge, 2011), Getting Causes from Powers (Oxford, 2011 with Rani Lill Anjum), Metaphysics: a Very Short Introduction (Oxford, 2012) and Causation: a Very Short Introduction (Oxford, 2013 with Rani Lill Anjum). I was editor of George Molnar's posthumous Powers: a Study in Metaphysics (Oxford, 2003) and Metaphysics and Science (Oxford, 2013 with Matthew Tugby).
  • Feminist Sport Lab: https://www.feministsportlab.com

  • Causation: A Very Short Introduction by Stephen Mumford & Rani Lill Anjum: https://academic.oup.com/book/616

  • Faye Norby, Iditarod champion & epidemiologist: https://www.kfyrtv.com/2024/03/28/faye-norby-finishes-iditarod-trail-womens-foot-champion/?outputType=ampĀ 

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Hot takes and logistic regression love with Travis Gerke | Season 4 Episode 316 Nov 202200:54:20

Lucy D'Agostino McGowan and Ellie Murray chat with Travis Gerke, Director of Data Science at The Prostate Cancer Clinical Trials Consortium (PCCTC). This episode has lots of hot takes and lots of love for logistic regression!

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Counterfactual Thinking: Biomarkers, Napster, and Ice-T | Season 4 Episode 204 Nov 202200:57:49

Lucy D'Agostino McGowan and Ellie Murray chat about counterfactuals!

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Population and Biomedical Data Science with Enrique Schisterman | Season 4 Episode 113 Oct 202200:54:51

In this episode Ellie Murray and Lucy D'Agostino McGowan chat with Enrique Schisterman, Perelman Professor and Chair of the Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Informatics at the University of Pennsylvania, about the future of epidemiology.

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What is the value of a p-value with Charlie Poole and Chuck Scales | Season 3 Episode 1303 May 202201:16:11

In this episode we play the audio from a recent panel discussion co-sponsored by UNC TraCS, Duke University and Wake Forest U CTSA Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Research Design (BERD) Cores. The panelists were Charles Poole (Associate Professor of Epidemiology, UNC) Lucy D'Agostino McGowan, and Charles Scales (Associate Professor of Surgery, Duke University) and it was facilitated by Marcella Boynton (Assistant Professor, General Internal Medicine, UNC/NC TraCS).

šŸŽ„ The video of the panel can be found here

šŸŽž Lucy's slides

šŸ“ƒ The ASA Statement on p-values

šŸ“ƒ The American Statistician issue on p-values following the SSI conference

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It Depends with Sander Greenland | Season 3 Episode 1218 Apr 202201:27:55

In this episode Lucy D'Agostino McGowan and Ellie Murray chat with Sander Greenland, Emeritus Professor of Epidemiology and Statistics at UCLA.

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The Intersection of Industrial Engineering and Causal Inference with Toyya Pujol | Season 3 Episode 1105 Apr 202201:04:35

In this episode Lucy D'Agostino McGowan and Ellie Murray chat with Toyya Pujol, Operations Researcher at RAND Corporation.

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The Intersection of Machine Learning and Causal Inference with Maggie Makar | Season 3 Episode 1014 Mar 202200:53:52

In this episode Lucy D'Agostino McGowan and Ellie Murray chat with Maggie Makar, Presidential postdoctoral fellow and assistant professor in Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan.

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Slide link: https://bit.ly/3DnQai5

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Artificial Intelligence, Personalized Medicine, and Causal Bounds with Judea Pearl | Season 3 Episode 928 Feb 202200:55:04

In this episode Lucy D'Agostino McGowan and Ellie Murray chat with Judea Pearl, Chancellor professor of computer science and statistics at the University of California, Los Angeles.

šŸ“„ Judea's recent papers

šŸ“– Book of Why

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The history of John Snow, Cholera, and Cookies with Chris Schaich | Season 3 Episode 814 Feb 202200:48:45

In this episode Lucy D'Agostino McGowan and Ellie Murray chat with #EpiCookieChallenge winner, Chris Schaich about the epidemiologist John Snow. Dr. Schaich is an assistant professor at Wake Forest School of Medicine in the Hypertension and Vascular Research Center.

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Asking questions that matter, getting answers that help | Season 3 Episode 705 Dec 202101:11:47

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In this episode Lucy D'Agostino McGowan and Ellie Murray chat about their Spotify Wrapped for Casual Inference, and Ellie Murray talks about causal inference for complex data with the University of Minnesota’s epidemiology department.

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Slide link: https://bit.ly/3DnQai5

Transcript (auto-generated): https://bit.ly/3y4OskQ

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Observational Causal Analyses with Erick Scott | Season 5 Episode 829 May 202400:51:43

Erick Scott is founder of cStructure, a causal science startup. Erick has expertise in medicine, public health, and computational biology.

  • info@cStructure.io

  • ā€œA causal roadmap for generating high-quality real-world evidenceā€ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10603361/

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A Casual Look at Causal Inference History | Season 3 Episode 622 Nov 202101:12:06

In this episode Lucy D'Agostino McGowan and Ellie Murray chat about the history of causal inference, tracing the origins across disciplines from statistics to economics, epidemiology, and computer science, discussing contributions from Rubin, Robins, Pearl, and more!

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Hanging out in the data science trough of disillusionment with Hilary Parker | Season 3 Episode 508 Nov 202101:09:42

In this episode Lucy D'Agostino McGowan and Ellie Murray chat with Hilary Parker about design thinking for data analysis, the Dunning-Kruger effect, and the potential data behind baby Yoda.

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Metascience with Noah Haber | Season 3 Episode 425 Oct 202101:08:13

In this episode Lucy D'Agostino McGowan and Ellie Murray chat with Noah Haber about metascience, causal language in the literature, and more!

šŸ„‡ Causal Inference Nobel Prize Press Release

šŸ“ Causal and Associational Linking Language From Observational Research and Health Evaluation Literature in Practice: A systematic language evaluation

šŸ“ What Should Researchers Expect When They Replicate Studies? A Statistical View of Replicability in Psychological Science

šŸ“ Design principles of data analysis

šŸ“ Causal language and strength of inference in academic and media articles shared in social media (CLAIMS): A systematic review

šŸ”— Reading past headlines [part 1]

šŸ”— Reading past headlines [part 2]

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Solving Optimization Problems in Healthcare and Disney Theme Parks with Len Testa | Season 3 Episode 311 Oct 202100:57:57

In this episode Lucy D'Agostino McGowan and Ellie Murray chat with Len Testa, president of TouringPlans, about solving optimization problems in travel and healthcare.

šŸ“¦ Lucy's R package with touringplans data

Len's slide on model choices:

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Causal Inference and Network Science for Public Health with Ashley Buchanan | Season 3 Episode 227 Sep 202100:59:48

In this episode Lucy D'Agostino McGowan and Ellie Murray chat with Ashley Buchanan about causal inference with a focus on networks. Dr. Buchanan is an assistant professor of Biostatistics in the Department of Pharmacy Practice at the University of Rhode Island.

šŸ”— Dr. Buchanan's website

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Coronavirus Rapid Tests Sensitivity, Specificity, Messaging, and Use Cases | Season 3 Episode 113 Sep 202101:01:50

In this episode Ellie Murray and Lucy D’Agostino McGowan do a series recap and then discuss sensitivity, specificity, and appropriate messaging in the context of coronavirus rapid tests.

šŸ“ Evaluation of the Abbott BinaxNOW rapid antigen test for SARS-CoV-2 infection in children: Implications for screening in a school setting

šŸ“ NY Times article: One in 5,000

🐦 Kareem Carr's tweet about omitted variable bias in randomized controlled trials

šŸ“ Israeli data: How can efficacy vs. severe disease be strong when 60% of hospitalized are vaccinated?

🦠 A calculator that lets you estimate COVID risk [microcovid]

In the (Local) News

šŸ“° Will Podcasting and Social Media Replace Journals and Traditional Science Communication? No, but...

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Our Michael Jordan Episode | Season 2 Episode 502 Mar 202100:38:51

In this 23rd episode of Casual Inference Ellie Murray and Lucy D'Agostino McGowan chat about fixed vs random effect, complete a statistics challenge, and talk about DAGs.

🐦 Tweet from @jtc475 about fixed vs random effects terminology

šŸŽ² This is Statistics March Randomness Challenge

šŸ“ Lucy, Kyra, and Ellie's paperĀ "Quantifying Uncertainty in Infectious Disease Mechanistic Models"

PeDAGogy

Here are the two Bridgerton DAGs we discussed.

1. Tweet submitted by @IGMoore:Ā 

2. Tweet submitted by @AlenaSorensen

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Health Policy with Julia Raifman | Season 2 Episode 408 Feb 202101:05:40

In this episode Ellie Murray and Lucy D’Agostino McGowan chat with Julia Raifman about health policy, a recent study on unemployment insurance and food insecurity, and anti racism in academia. Dr. Raifman is an assistant professor of Health Law, Policy, and Management at Boston University. Her research focuses on how health and social policies drive population health and health disparities.

šŸ“ Geoffrey Rose's paper Sick Individuals and Sick Populations

šŸ“Julia’s recent paper - Association Between Receipt of Unemployment Insurance and Food Insecurity Among People Who Lost Employment During the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States

PeDAGogy

Come up with a Bridgerton DAG and share it with us on Twitter! Here is one for inspiration. Ā 

Me: "Hi please fund me to do innovative research"

Also me: "Sure I'll lead a DAG discussion on the @PWGTennant et al. @IJEeditorial paper... I'd like to focus on how offensively hot the guy from Bridgerton is."@mrc_ieu and @BristolTARG PhD student Mark Gibson made my day! pic.twitter.com/CFOoYhMGjt

— Gareth Griffith (@Garethjgriffith) February 1, 2021

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Celebrating 100 years with a look forwards and back with the D'Agostinos | Season 2 Episode 321 Jan 202101:02:56

In this episode Ellie Murray and Lucy D’Agostino McGowan chat with Ralph D’Agostino Sr. and Ralph D’Agostino Jr. about their careers in statistics, looking back at how things have developed and forward at where they see the world of statistics and epidemiology going. We’re excited to kick off the 100th year of the American Journal of Epidemiology with this episode.

Ralph D’Agostino Sr. is a professor of Mathematics/Statistics, Biostatistics, and Epidemiology at Boston University. He has been the lead biostatistician for the Framingham Heart Study, a biostatistical consultant to The New England Journal of Medicine, an editor of Statistics in Medicine and lead editor of their Tutorials, and a member and consultant on FDA committees. His major fields of research are clinical trials, prognostic models, longitudinal analysis, multivariate analysis, robustness, and outcomes/effectiveness research.Ā 

Ralph D’Agostino Jr. is a professor in the Department of Biostatistics and Data Science at Wake Forest University where he is the Director of the Biostatistics Core of the Comprehensive Cancer Center. Methodologically his research includes developing statistical techniques for evaluating data from observational settings, handling missing data in applied problems, and developing predictive functions to identify prospectively patients at elevated risk for future negative outcomes. Some of his recent work includes the development of methods using propensity score models to identify safety signals in large retrospective databases.Ā 

It also turns out they are Lucy’s father and grandfather, so we have 3 generations of statisticians on the pod!

We also have Amit Sasson on to discuss the winning cookie from the #EpiCookieChallenge as well as her work in causal inference!

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The Most Ambitious Crossover | Season 2 Episode 215 Dec 202000:52:25

In honor of the Society for Epidemiologic Research 2020 Meeting, the hosts of four epidemiology podcasts came together to record the first ever ā€œcrossover eventā€ to talk about their experiences recording our shows and what podcasting can bring to the table for the field of epidemiology. Join the hosts of Epidemiology Counts (Bryan James), SERiousEPi (Matt Fox, Hailey Banack), Casual Inference (Lucy D’Agostino McGowan), and Shiny Epi People (Lisa Bodnar) as they engage in a fun and informative (we hope!) conversation of the burgeoning field of epidemiology podcasting, emceed by Geetika Kalloo.

Friends Let Friends Do Mediation Analysis with Nima Hejazi | Season 5 Episode 716 May 202400:59:07

Nima Hejazi is an assistant professor in biostatistics at Harvard University. His methodological work often draws upon tools and ideas from semi- and non-parametric inference, high-dimensional and large-scale inference, targeted or debiased machine learning (e.g., targeted minimum loss estimation, method of sieves), and computational statistics.

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Happy Anniversary to Us! | Season 2 Episode 113 Nov 202000:54:49

Ellie Murray and Lucy D'Agostino McGowan chat about ecological studies, the new Pfizer vaccine interim analysis, and more!

šŸ“ˆ Vanderbilt University Department of Health Policy's COVID-19 Deaths in Tennessee and Adoption of Mask Requirements (h/t Peter Rebeiro)Ā 

šŸ“ˆ The original masks v no masks graph

šŸ—ž Pfizer's press release about the interim analysis for their vaccine trial

šŸ““ Pfizer's vaccine trial protocol

PeDAGogy

Here is the DAG from our peDAGogy segment:

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Why Everyone is Excited About Causal Inference These Days with Roger Peng | Episode 1830 Oct 202000:59:27

Ellie Murray and Lucy D'Agostino McGowan chat about communicating uncertainty, how air pollution policy is determined, and whether causal inference is a fad with Dr. Roger Peng from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

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Thinking About Schools Reopening From a Causal Perspective with Emily Oster | Episode 1716 Oct 202001:14:51

Ellie Murray and Lucy D'Agostino McGowan talk about the causal questions linked to schools opening during the COVID-19 pandemic. Then they have Dr. Emily Oster, professor of economics at Brown University, on to discuss her thoughts on and contributions to this area.

šŸ“„ Emily's Atlantic PieceĀ Schools aren't super-spreader events

šŸ“Š COVID-19 School Response Dashboard

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An Ode to Generalized Linear Models | Episode 1602 Oct 202000:45:55

Ellie Murray and Lucy D'Agostino McGowan casually discuss linear versus logistic regression, prediction versus inference, generalized linear models, and more!

šŸ“„Robin Gomila's paper: "Logistic or linear? Estimating causal effects on experimental treatments on binary outcomes using regression analysis"

🐦 Robin's twitter thread about the paper

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Methodological Advances in Causal Inference with Betsy Ogburn | Episode 1517 Sep 202001:14:53

Ellie Murray and Lucy D'Agostino McGowan discuss methodological advancement in causal inference with Dr. Elizabeth Ogburn from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

šŸ“„ Wang & Blei's The Blessings of Multiple Causes paper

🦠 COVID-19 Collaboration Platform

šŸ“ˆ COVID-19 Meta-dashboard of dashboards

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Casual Inference Live from SER | Episode 1424 Jun 202000:50:35

Ellie Murray and Lucy D'Agostino McGowan are live for Society for Epidemiologic Research (SER) week!

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Community Engagement, Health Disparities, and Measure Development with Melody Goodman | Episode 1304 Jun 202001:59:18

Ellie Murray and Lucy D'Agostino McGowan discuss community engagement, health disparities, and measure development with Dr. Melody Goodman from New York University Global School of Public Health.

🐦 Jonathan Jackson's tweet on the importance of measures of dispersion

šŸ“„ Goodman's paper Reaching Consensus on Principles of Stakeholder Engagement in Research

šŸ“„ Goodman's paper Content validation of a quantitative stakeholder engagement measure

šŸ“„ Goodman's paper on Community Research Training Fellows Program Training Community Members in Public Health Research: Development and Implementation of a Community Participatory Research Pilot Project

šŸ“„ The Relationship between In-Person Voting, Consolidated Polling Locations, and Absentee Voting on Covid-19: Evidence from the Wisconsin Primary discussed in the peDAGogy segment

Harm reduction tips for protests

Harm reduction tips for faith-based communities

General harm reduction tips

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COVID-19, Masks, and Designing Observational Studies | Episode 1222 May 202000:35:25

Ellie Murray and Lucy D'Agostino McGowan chat about coronavirus, the evidence we have about masks, and designing observational studies.

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Getting Bayesian with Frank Harrell | Episode 1122 Apr 202000:57:23

Ellie Murray and Lucy D'Agostino McGowan discuss Bayesian statistics, model validation, and more, with special guest Dr. Frank Harrell from the Department of Biostatistics at Vanderbilt University.

šŸ¤·ā€ā™€ļøWhat does it mean to be Bayesian?

šŸ¤·ā€ā™€ļøHow can we decide if our models are good?

šŸ“ˆFrank's COVID trial resource hubĀ 

šŸ“ˆBetsy Ogburn's COVID trial protocol hub

šŸ‘Øā€šŸ«Frank's Free Biostatistics in Biomedical Research Course

šŸLucy's tweetorial on Type 1 error and including nonlinear terms in models

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Coronavirus Conversations 2 | Episode 1009 Apr 202000:57:00

Ellie Murray and Lucy D'Agostino McGowan discuss coronavirus a bit more, focusing on mask wearing, data quality, disease modeling, and more!

šŸ“ˆ IHME COVID-19 projections
😷 A quick DIY cloth mask how-to
😷 Ellie's TikTok on safe mask removal
🧪 Lucy's tweetorial on estimating prevalences from testing data
šŸ¤·ā€ā™€ļø Lucy's model uncertainty tweetorialĀ 

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Fun and Game(s) Theory with Aaditya Ramdas | Season 5 Episode 601 May 202400:48:23

Aaditya Ramdas is an assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon University, in the Departments of Statistics and Machine Learning. His research interests include game-theoretic statistics and sequential anytime-valid inference, multiple testing and post-selection inference, and uncertainty quantification for machine learning (conformal prediction, calibration). His applied areas of interest include neuroscience, genetics and auditing (real-estate, finance, elections). Aaditya received the IMS Peter Gavin Hall Early Career Prize, the COPSS Emerging Leader Award, the Bernoulli New Researcher Award, the NSF CAREER Award, the Sloan fellowship in Mathematics, and faculty research awards from Adobe and Google. He also spends 20% of his time at Amazon working on causality and sequential experimentation.

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Coronavirus Conversations | Episode 0919 Mar 202001:11:02

Ellie Murray and Lucy D'Agostino McGowan discuss coronavirus with an added segment discussing current recommendations for people taking ACE inhibitors or ARBS with Andrew South from Wake Forest School of Medicine.

šŸ‘Wash your hands to Splash Mountain Medley:

🌟 Ellie's hand washing song lyrics (to be sung twice)

Twinkle twinkle little SARS
How I wonder where you are
Are you on my hands right now?
On my face or on my brow?
Twinkle twinkle little SARS
How I wonder where you are


šŸ’ƒ Ellie on TikTok

šŸ”— Nephrology Journal Club information about ACEi/ARBS and coronavirus

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Causal inference for data science with Sean Taylor | Episode 0820 Feb 202001:29:47

Ellie Murray and Lucy D'Agostino McGowan chat with Sean Taylor from Lyft.

Here are some links to the content we talk about in this episode:

šŸ“Ā Sean’s Science paper

šŸ“¦ Prophet R package

šŸ“Ā Book on time-varying exposures

šŸ“Ā Lyft engineering blog

šŸ“Ā Hormone replacement therapy overview

šŸ“Ā Analyzing observational HRT data by emulating a trial

šŸ“° Local news

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Asking harder causal questions with Whitney Robinson | Episode 0706 Feb 202001:19:47

Ellie Murray and Lucy D'Agostino McGowan chat with Whitney Robinson from the Departments of Epidemiology at University of North Carolina Gillings School of Global Public Health

Here are some links to the content we talk about in this episode:

šŸ“ Jeffrey Rose article (reprint)

šŸ“ Chandra Ford’s public health praxis paper

šŸ“ Whitney’s paper with Tyler VanderWeele on race as a cause

šŸ“ Miguel Hernan’s paper on well-defined interventions: Does water kill?

šŸ“ NIH funding paper

šŸ“» Acadames podcast

šŸ“ Miguel Hernan’s AJE paper on selection bias without colliders

šŸ“° Local news

PeDAGogy:

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Internal and External Validity with Elizabeth Stuart | Episode 0623 Jan 202001:38:26

Ellie Murray and Lucy D'Agostino McGowan chat with Elizabeth Stuart from the Departments of Mental Health, Biostatistics, and Health Policy and Management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.Ā 

Here are some links to the content we talk about in this episode:

šŸ“ Kern et al paper on Assessing Methods for Generalizing Experimental Impact Estimates to Target Populations

šŸ“ Article by Sherri Rose on Liz Stuart (baby pics!)

🌐 Liz Stuart's website

šŸ“° Local news

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