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**Casual Inference**

Keep it casual with the Casual Inference podcast. Your hosts Lucy D’Agostino McGowan and Ellie Murray talk all things epidemiology, statistics, data science, causal inference, and public health. Sponsored by the American Journal of Epidemiology.

Latest Episodes:

Prevention Strategies via the #Epicookiechallenge | Season 4 Episode 8 Mar 29, 2023

Show notes

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

Follow along on Twitter:

The American Journal of Epidemiology: @AmJEpi
Viktoria: @VikiGastens
Viktoria's Lab: @PopHealthLabCH
Ellie: @EpiEllie
Lucy: @LucyStats

🎶 Our intro/outro music is courtesy of Joseph McDade
Edited by Quinn Rose: aspiringrobot.com

Sensitivity Analyses for Unmeasured Confounders | Season 4 Episode 7 Mar 14, 2023

Show notes

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

✍️ Lucy's new paper: Sensitivity Analyses for Unmeasured Confounders

Follow along on Twitter:

The American Journal of Epidemiology: @AmJEpi
Ellie: @EpiEllie
Lucy: @LucyStats

🎶 Our intro/outro music is courtesy of Joseph McDade
Edited by Quinn Rose: aspiringrobot.com

Randomized Controlled Trials: Efficacy versus Effectiveness, Safety vs Safetiness | Season 4 Episode 6 Feb 28, 2023

Show notes

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

✍️ Frank Harrell's blog post "Randomized Clinical Trials Do Not Mimic Clinical Practice, Thank Goodness"

Follow along on Twitter:

The American Journal of Epidemiology: @AmJEpi
Ellie: @EpiEllie
Lucy: @LucyStats

🎶 Our intro/outro music is courtesy of Joseph McDade
Edited by Quinn Rose: aspiringrobot.com

The Value of Instrumental Variables with Maria Glymour | Season 4 Episode 5 Dec 10, 2022

Show notes

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.

Follow up:

✍️ Andrew Heiss's blog post on marginal and conditional effects for GLMMs

Follow along on Twitter:

Maria Glymour: @MariaGlymour
The American Journal of Epidemiology: @AmJEpi
Ellie: @EpiEllie
Lucy: @LucyStats

🎶 Our intro/outro music is courtesy of Joseph McDade
Edited by Quinn Rose: aspiringrobot.com

Methods chat about personalized medicine and positivity in causal inference | Season 4 Episode 4 Nov 30, 2022

Show notes

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

Follow along on Twitter:

The American Journal of Epidemiology: @AmJEpi
Ellie: @EpiEllie
Lucy: @LucyStats

🎶 Our intro/outro music is courtesy of Joseph McDade

Hot takes and logistic regression love with Travis Gerke | Season 4 Episode 3 Nov 16, 2022

Show notes

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!

Follow along on Twitter:

Travis Gerke: @travisgerke
The American Journal of Epidemiology: @AmJEpi
Ellie: @EpiEllie
Lucy: @LucyStats

🎶 Our intro/outro music is courtesy of Joseph McDade
Edited by Quinn Rose: aspiringrobot.com

Counterfactual Thinking: Biomarkers, Napster, and Ice-T | Season 4 Episode 2 Nov 04, 2022

Show notes

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

Follow along on Twitter:

The American Journal of Epidemiology: @AmJEpi
Ellie: @EpiEllie
Lucy: @LucyStats

🎶 Our intro/outro music is courtesy of Joseph McDade
Edited by Quinn Rose: aspiringrobot.com

Population and Biomedical Data Science with Enrique Schisterman | Season 4 Episode 1 Oct 13, 2022

Show notes

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.

Follow along on Twitter:

Enrique: @eschisterman1
The American Journal of Epidemiology: @AmJEpi
Ellie: @EpiEllie
Lucy: @LucyStats

🎶 Our intro/outro music is courtesy of Joseph McDade

What is the value of a p-value with Charlie Poole and Chuck Scales | Season 3 Episode 13 May 03, 2022

Show notes

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).

🎥 The video of the panel can be found here

🎞 Lucy's slides

📃 The ASA Statement on p-values

📃 The American Statistician issue on p-values following the SSI conference

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