Casual Inference

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. 🔗 Dr. Buchanan's website Follow along on Twitter: The American Journal of Epidemiology:  @AmJEpi Ellie:  @EpiEllie Lucy:  @LucyStats 🎶 ...

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. 📝 Evaluation of the Abbott BinaxNOW rapid antigen test for SARS-CoV-2 infection in children: Implications for screening in a school setting 📝 NY Times article: One in 5,000 🐦 Kareem Carr's tweet about omitted v...

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 🎲 This is Statistics March Randomness Challenge 📝 Lucy, Kyra, and Ellie's paper "Quantifying Uncertainty in Infectious Disease Mechanistic Models" PeDAGogy Here ar...

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. 📝 Geo...

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 profes...

In honor of the Society for Epidemiologic Research 2020 Meeting, the hosts of four epidemiology podcasts came together to record the first ever "crossover event" 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 (Luc...

Ellie Murray and Lucy D'Agostino McGowan chat about ecological studies, the new Pfizer vaccine interim analysis, and more! 📈 Vanderbilt University Department of Health Policy's COVID-19 Deaths in Tennessee and Adoption of Mask Requirements (h/t Peter Rebeiro )  📈 The original masks v no masks graph 🗞 Pfizer's press release about the interim analysis for their vaccine trial 📓 Pfizer's vaccine tr...

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. Follow along on Twitter: The American Journal of Epidemiology:  @AmJEpi Ellie:  @EpiEllie Lucy:  @LucyStats Roger: @rdpeng 🎶  Our intro/outro music is courtesy of   Jos...

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. 📄 Emily's Atlantic Piece  Schools aren't super-spreader events 📊 COVID-19 School Response Dashboard Follow along on Twitter: The Am...

Ellie Murray and Lucy D'Agostino McGowan casually discuss linear versus logistic regression, prediction versus inference, generalized linear models, and more! 📄R obin 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 Follow along on Twitter: The American Journal of Epide...

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. 📄 Wang & Blei's The Blessings of Multiple Causes paper 🦠 COVID-19 Collaboration Platform 📈 COVID-19 Meta-dashboard of dashboards Follow along on Twitter: The American Journal of Epidemiology:  @AmJEpi Ellie:  @EpiEllie Lu...

Ellie Murray and Lucy D'Agostino McGowan are live for Society for Epidemiologic Research (SER) week! Follow along on Twitter: The American Journal of Epidemiology:  @AmJEpi Ellie:  @EpiEllie Lucy:  @LucyStats 🎶  Our intro/outro music is courtesy of   Joseph McDade . 👩‍🎨  Our artwork is by   Allison Horst .

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 📄 Goodman's paper Reaching Consensus on Principles of Stakeholder Engagement in Research 📄 Goodman's paper Content validation of a...

Ellie Murray and Lucy D'Agostino McGowan chat about coronavirus, the evidence we have about masks, and designing observational studies. Follow along on Twitter: The American Journal of Epidemiology:  @AmJEpi Ellie:  @EpiEllie Lucy:  @LucyStats 🎶  Our intro/outro music is courtesy of   Joseph McDade . 👩‍🎨  Our artwork is by   Allison Horst .

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. 🤷‍♀️What does it mean to be Bayesian? 🤷‍♀️How can we decide if our models are good? 📈Frank's COVID trial resource hub   📈Betsy Ogburn's COVID trial protocol hub 👨‍🏫Frank's Free Biostatistics in Bi...

Ellie Murray and Lucy D'Agostino McGowan discuss coronavirus a bit more, focusing on mask wearing, data quality, disease modeling, and more! 📈 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 🤷‍♀️ Lucy's model uncertainty tweetorial  Follow along on Twitter: The American Journal of E...

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. 👏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?...

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: 📝 Sean's Science paper 📦 Prophet R package 📝 Book on time-varying exposures 📝 Lyft engineering blog 📝 Hormone replacement therapy overview 📝 Analyzing observational HRT data by emulating a trial 📰 Local news AJE Methods Corner   Follow along on Twitter:...

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: 📝 Jeffrey Rose article (reprint) 📝 Chandra Ford's public health praxis paper 📝 Whitney's paper with Tyler VanderWeele on race as a cause 📝 Miguel Hernan'...

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.  Here are some links to the content we talk about in this episode: 📝 Kern et al paper on Assessing Methods for Generalizing Experimental Impact Estimates to Target Populations 📝 Article b...

Ellie Murray and Lucy D'Agostino McGowan chat with Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz, an epidemiologist studying at the University of Wollongong and a science communication writer for the Guardian, Observer, and more! Here are some links to the content we talk about in this episode: 📝 Gideon's post on relative versus absolute risk 🐦 Gideon's twitter account @justsaysrisks 🎙 Everything Hertz Podcast 🎙Gideon...

Ellie Murray and Lucy D'Agostino McGowan chat with Matt Fox from the Departments of Epidemiology and Global Health at Boston University. Here are some links to the content we talk about in this episode: 📄 Paper discussing a null association between smoking during pregnancy and breast cancer risk 📚 Matt's textbook on quantitative bias analysis 🔗 Bias analysis website: sites.google.com/site/biasa...

Ellie Murray and Lucy D'Agostino McGowan chat with Sherri Rose from the Department of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School. Here are some links to the content we talk about in this episode: 📄 Paper by Anna Zink and Sherri Rose: Fair Regression for Health Care Spending 📄 The Blessing of Multiple Causes 📄   Dissecting racial bias in an algorithm used to manage the health of populations 📚...

Ellie Murray and Lucy D'Agostino McGowan chat with Onyebuchi Arah from the Department of Epidemiology and UCLA Fielding School of Public Health about Social Epidemiology. Here are some links to the content we talk about in this episode: 📄 Study in Science Advances demonstrating the funding gap in research on the community level  📄 Matt Fox's E-value study published in the American Journal of Epi...

Ellie Murray and Lucy D'Agostino McGowan try to keep it casual in the first episode of the new Casual Inference podcast. Episode 1 features special guest Miguel Hernan from Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health. Listen to learn how to improve your observational data analysis! Follow along on Twitter: The American Journal of Epidemiology:  @AmJEpi Ellie:  @EpiEllie Lucy:  @LucyStats Miguel: @_Mig...