What is the value of a p-value with Charlie Poole and Chuck Scales | Season 3 Episode 13
Release Date: 05/03/2022
Starting the Conversation on Models with Alyssa Bilinski | Season 5 Episode 11
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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. Episode notes: PNAS paper: Shuo Feng’s pre-print: Our uncertainty paper: Follow along on Twitter: Alyssa: The American Journal of Epidemiology: Ellie: Lucy: 🎶 Our intro/outro music is courtesy of Edited by
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Flexible methods with Edward Kennedy | Season 5 Episode 10
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Edward Kennedy Associate Professor, Department of Statistics & Data Science, Carnegie Mellon. Evaluating a Targeted Minimum Loss-Based Estimator for Capture-Recapture Analysis: An Application to HIV Surveillance in San Francisco, California: Doubly Robust Capture-Recapture Methods for Estimating Population Size: Follow along on Twitter: The American Journal of Epidemiology: Ellie: Lucy: 🎶 Our intro/outro music is courtesy of Edited by
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What Sports and Feminism can tell us about Causal Inference with Sheree Bekker & Stephen Mumford | Season 5 Episode 9
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Sheree Bekker & Stephen Mumford are Co-directors of the Feminist Sport Lab and have a book coming soon: “Open Play: the case for feminist sport”, coming Spring 2025. Reaktion Books (UK), University of Chicago Press (US). Sheree Bekker: Associate Professor, University of Bath, , Stephen Mumford, Professor of Metaphysics, 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,...
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Observational Causal Analyses with Erick Scott | Season 5 Episode 8
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Erick Scott is founder of cStructure, a causal science startup. Erick has expertise in medicine, public health, and computational biology. [email protected] “A causal roadmap for generating high-quality real-world evidence” https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10603361/ Follow along on Twitter: The American Journal of Epidemiology: Ellie: Lucy: 🎶 Our intro/outro music is courtesy of Edited by
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Friends Let Friends Do Mediation Analysis with Nima Hejazi | Season 5 Episode 7
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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. Surprised by the Hot Hand Fallacy? A Truth in the Law of Small Numbers by Joshua B. Miller & Adam Sanjurjo: Nima is on Twitter/X as @nshejazi () and my academic webpage is Recent translational review paper (intended for the infectious...
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Fun and Game(s) Theory with Aaditya Ramdas | Season 5 Episode 6
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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,...
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Cookies, Causal Inference, and Careers with Ingrid Giesinger #Epicookiechallenge | Season 5 Episode 5
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Ingrid is a doctoral student in Epidemiology at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto. Follow along on Twitter: The American Journal of Epidemiology: Ellie: Lucy: 🎶 Our intro/outro music is courtesy of Edited by
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Analyzing the Analysts: Reproducibility with Nick Huntington-Klein | Season 5 Episode 4
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Nick Huntington-Klein is an Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Albers School of Business and Economics, Seattle University. His research focus is econometrics, causal inference, and higher education policy. He’s also the author of an introductory causal inference textbook called The Effect and the creator of a number of Stata packages for implementing causal effect estimation procedures. Nick’s book, online version: The Paper of How: Nick’s twitter & BlueSky: @nickchk Nick’s website: Follow along on Twitter: The American Journal of Epidemiology: ...
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Immortal Time Bias | Season 5 Episode 3
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Lucy and Ellie chat about immortal time bias, discussing a new paper Ellie co-authored on clone-censor-weights. The Clone-Censor-Weight Method in Pharmacoepidemiologic Research: Foundations and Methodological Implementation: Immortal time in pregnancy: Follow along on Twitter: The American Journal of Epidemiology: Ellie: Lucy: 🎶 Our intro/outro music is courtesy of Edited by
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Targeted Learning with Mar van der Laan | Season 5 Episode 2
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Mark van der Laan is a professor of statistics at the University of California, Berkeley. His research focuses on developing statistical methods to estimate causal and non-causal parameters of interest, based on potentially complex and high dimensional data from randomized clinical trials or observational longitudinal studies, or from cross-sectional studies. Center for Targeted Learning, Berkeley: A causal roadmap: Short course on causal learning: Handbook on the TLverse (Targeted Learning in R): Mark on twitter: Follow along on Twitter: The American...
info_outlineIn 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).
🎥 The video of the panel can be found here
📃 The ASA Statement on p-values
📃 The American Statistician issue on p-values following the SSI conference
Follow along on Twitter:
- The American Journal of Epidemiology: @AmJEpi
- Ellie: @EpiEllie
- Lucy: @LucyStats
🎶 Our intro/outro music is courtesy of Joseph McDade