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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:

**Quantitative Bias Analysis with Matt Fox | Episode 04** Dec 19, 2019
Show notes

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/biasanalysis/

**📰 Global news**

Wang and Blei's The Blessing of Multiple Causes

Obgurn, Shpitser, and Tchetgen Tchetgen's Comment

D'Amour's Comment

In this week's global news segment we mentioned *M-bias.* Here is an example DAG of this phenomenon:

**Follow along on Twitter:**

The American Journal of Epidemiology: @AmJEpi

Ellie: @EpiEllie

Lucy: @LucyStats

Matt: @ProfMattFox

🎶 *Our intro/outro music is courtesy of Joseph McDade.*
👩‍🎨 *Our artwork is by Allison Horst.*

**Fairness in Machine Learning with Sherri Rose | Episode 03** Dec 05, 2019
Show notes

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
📚 Sherri's books on targeted learning
🔗 Sherri's website: drsherrirose.org
🔗 Data for Black lives: d4bl.org
👏 What we're is enjoying this week: baby Yoda
📰 Our local news: American Journal of Epidemiology article: a machine learning primer for epidemiologists

**PeDAGogy segment:**

In this weeks segment, Ellie describes a *collider*!

**Follow along on Twitter:**

The American Journal of Epidemiology: @AmJEpi

Ellie: @EpiEllie

Lucy: @LucyStats

Sherri: @sherrirose

🎶 *Our intro/outro music is courtesy of Joseph McDade.*
👩‍🎨 *Our artwork is by Allison Horst.*

ice cream, summer, crime DAG — **Socializing about Social Epidemiology with Onyebuchi Arah | Episode 02** Nov 22, 2019
Show notes

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 Epidemiology

👏 What Lucy is enjoying this week: Normcore tech newsletter

📰 Our local news: American Journal of Epidemiology article on obesity & neighborhoods

**Here is the DAG discussed in the peDAGogy segment:**

**Follow along on Twitter:**

The American Journal of Epidemiology: @AmJEpi

Ellie: @EpiEllie

Lucy: @LucyStats

Onyebuchi: @oacarah

🎶 *Our intro/outro music is courtesy of Joseph McDade.*

Talking Target Trials with Miguel Hernan | Episode 01 Nov 08, 2019

Show notes

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: @_MiguelHernan

Our intro/outro music is courtesy of Joseph McDade.

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

Causal Inference, What If: https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/miguel-hernan/causal-inference-book/

AJE article on applying the target trial method: https://academic.oup.com/aje/article/188/8/1569/5486454

AJE tweetorial on that article: https://twitter.com/AmJEpi/status/1171866941906026496

News report on the Economics Nobel Prize: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/10/economics-nobel-honors-trio-taking-experimental-approach-fighting-poverty

Keeping it casual: the pilot | Episode 00 Nov 01, 2019

Show notes

Ellie Murray and Lucy D'Agostino McGowan try to keep it casual in this quick teaser to introduce you to the types of things the Casual Inference podcast will include.

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