Casual Inference Lucy D'Agostino McGowan and Ellie Murray
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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.
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Fun and Game(s) Theory with Aaditya Ramdas
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
Estimating means of bounded random variables by betting: https://academic.oup.com/jrsssb/article/86/1/1/7043257
Follow along on Twitter:
The American Journal of Epidemiology: @AmJEpi
Ellie: @EpiEllie
Lucy: @LucyStats
🎶 Our intro/outro music is courtesy of Joseph McDade
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Cookies, Causal Inference, and Careers with Ingrid Giesinger #Epicookiechallenge
Ingrid is a doctoral student in Epidemiology at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto.
Winning cookie recipe
Follow along on Twitter:
The American Journal of Epidemiology: @AmJEpi
Ellie: @EpiEllie
Lucy: @LucyStats
🎶 Our intro/outro music is courtesy of Joseph McDade
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Analyzing the Analysts: Reproducibility with Nick Huntington-Klein
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
Follow along on Twitter:
The American Journal of Epidemiology: @AmJEpi
Ellie: @EpiEllie
Lucy: @LucyStats
🎶 Our intro/outro music is courtesy of Joseph McDade
Edited by Cameron Bopp
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Immortal Time Bias
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/
Follow along on Twitter:
The American Journal of Epidemiology: @AmJEpi
Ellie: @EpiEllie
Lucy: @LucyStats
🎶 Our intro/outro music is courtesy of Joseph McDade
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Targeted Learning with Mar van der Laan
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
Mark on twitter: @mark_vdlaan Follow along on Twitter:
The American Journal of Epidemiology: @AmJEpi
Ellie: @EpiEllie
Lucy: @LucyStats
🎶 Our intro/outro music is courtesy of Joseph McDade
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Pros and Cons of Randomized Controlled Trials
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
Follow along on Twitter:
The American Journal of Epidemiology: @AmJEpi
Ellie: @EpiEllie
Lucy: @LucyStats
🎶 Our intro/outro music is courtesy of Joseph McDade
Edited by Cameron Bopp
Customer Reviews
Excellent podcast!
I would highly recommend this podcast to anyone interested in Epi/Biostats! Excellent job, this is quickly becoming one of my favorite listens while driving to work!
Great conceptually but vocal fry undermines experience as a listener
Highly interested in the episodes and guests but unfortunately find it grating to listen to. Many people do not have natural speaking voices that are well suited for podcasts or radio (myself included). That said, news anchors are a prime example of our ability to improve our speaking voices. The hosts are clearly bright and have great energy, but could benefit from investing in vocal training in the interest of expanding their audience.
Great podcast
This is a really fun and informative podcast on causal inference and data science. The hosts both are great at communicating topics in research design and stats to semi-laypeople like myself.
My only critique is that the audio is pretty quiet, i hope the mic setup can improve.