Casual Inference

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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• The American Journal of Epidemiology: @AmJEpi
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🎶 Our intro/outro music is courtesy of Joseph McDade

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

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

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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

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

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.

📄 Judea's recent papers

📖 Book of Why

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

🎶 Our intro/outro music is courtesy of Joseph McDade

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

🎶 Our intro/outro music is courtesy of Joseph McDade

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

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

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

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

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

🥇 Causal Inference Nobel Prize Press Release

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

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

📝 Design principles of data analysis

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

🔗 Reading past headlines [part 1]

🔗 Reading past headlines [part 2]

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