Casual Inference Lucy D'Agostino McGowan and Ellie Murray

Aaditya Ramdas is an assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon University, in the Departments of Statistics and Machine Learning. His research interests include game-theoretic statistics and sequential anytime-valid inference, multiple testing and post-selection inference, and uncertainty quantification for machine learning (conformal prediction, calibration). His applied areas of interest include neuroscience, genetics and auditing (real-estate, finance, elections). Aaditya received the IMS Peter Gavin Hall Early Career Prize, the COPSS Emerging Leader Award, the Bernoulli New Researcher Award, the NSF CAREER Award, the Sloan fellowship in Mathematics, and faculty research awards from Adobe and Google. He also spends 20% of his time at Amazon working on causality and sequential experimentation.
Aaditya’s website: https://www.stat.cmu.edu/~aramdas/
Game theoretic statistics resources
Aaditya’s course, Game-theoretic probability, statistics, and learning:
https://www.stat.cmu.edu/~aramdas/gtpsl/index.html
Papers of interest:
Time-uniform central limit theory and asymptotic confidence sequences: https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.06476
Game-theoretic statistics and safe anytime-valid inference: https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.06476
Discussion papers:
Safe Testing: https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.07801
Testing by Betting: https://academic.oup.com/jrsssa/article/184/2/407/7056412
 
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Ingrid is a doctoral student in Epidemiology at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto. 
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Nick Huntington-Klein is an Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Albers School of Business and Economics, Seattle University. His research focus is econometrics, causal inference, and higher education policy. He’s also the author of an introductory causal inference textbook called The Effect and the creator of a number of Stata packages for implementing causal effect estimation procedures.
Nick’s book, online version: https://theeffectbook.net/
The Paper of How: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/W2FMEESMMSJMWDEZYY8Y?target=10.1111/obes.12598
Nick’s twitter & BlueSky: @nickchk
Nick’s website: https://nickchk.com
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Lucy and Ellie chat about immortal time bias, discussing a new paper Ellie co-authored on clone-censor-weights. 
The Clone-Censor-Weight Method in Pharmacoepidemiologic Research: Foundations and Methodological Implementation: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40471-024-00346-2 
Immortal time in pregnancy: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36805380/ 
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Mark van der Laan is a professor of statistics at the University of California, Berkeley. His research focuses on developing statistical methods to estimate causal and non-causal parameters of interest, based on potentially complex and high dimensional data from randomized clinical trials or observational longitudinal studies, or from cross-sectional studies. 
Center for Targeted Learning, Berkeley: https://ctml.berkeley.edu/
A causal roadmap: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37900353/ 
Short course on causal learning: https://ctml.berkeley.edu/introduction-causal-inference 
Handbook on the TLverse (Targeted Learning in R): https://ctml.berkeley.edu/publications/targeted-learning-handbook-causal-machine-learning-and-inference-tlverse-r-software 
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Ellie and Lucy kick off the season and introduce our new executive buzzer, Melita! Melita is a masters student in statistics at Wake Forest University and will be helping out with the podcast (and keeping Lucy and Ellie from using too much jargon!)
Pros & Cons of RCT paper: 
Fernainy, P., Cohen, A.A., Murray, E. et al. Rethinking the pros and cons of randomized controlled trials and observational studies in the era of big data and advanced methods: a panel discussion. BMC Proc 18 (Suppl 2), 1 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12919-023-00285-8
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🎶 Our intro/outro music is courtesy of Joseph McDade
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