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