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

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Ellie Murray and Lucy D'Agostino McGowan casually discuss linear versus logistic regression, prediction versus inference, generalized linear models, and more!

📄Robin 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

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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

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Ellie Murray and Lucy D'Agostino McGowan are live for Society for Epidemiologic Research (SER) week!

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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 quantitative stakeholder engagement measure

📄 Goodman's paper on Community Research Training Fellows Program Training Community Members in Public Health Research: Development and Implementation of a Community Participatory Research Pilot Project

📄 The Relationship between In-Person Voting, Consolidated Polling Locations, and Absentee Voting on Covid-19: Evidence from the Wisconsin Primary discussed in the peDAGogy segment

Harm reduction tips for protests

Harm reduction tips for faith-based communities

General harm reduction tips

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Ellie Murray and Lucy D'Agostino McGowan chat about coronavirus, the evidence we have about masks, and designing observational studies.

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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 Biomedical Research Course

🐍Lucy's tweetorial on Type 1 error and including nonlinear terms in models

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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

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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? On my face or on my brow? Twinkle twinkle little SARS How I wonder where you are

💃 Ellie on TikTok

🔗 Nephrology Journal Club information about ACEi/ARBS and coronavirus

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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

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