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Casual Inference

By: Lucy D’Agostino McGowan and Ellie Murray
  • Summary

  • 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. In partnership with the American Journal of Epidemiology.
    2021
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Episodes
  • Observational Causal Analyses with Erick Scott | Season 5 Episode 8
    May 29 2024

    Erick Scott is founder of cStructure, a causal science startup. Erick has expertise in medicine, public health, and computational biology.

    • info@cStructure.io

    • “A causal roadmap for generating high-quality real-world evidence” https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10603361/

    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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    52 mins
  • Friends Let Friends Do Mediation Analysis with Nima Hejazi | Season 5 Episode 7
    May 16 2024

    Nima Hejazi is an assistant professor in biostatistics at Harvard University. His methodological work often draws upon tools and ideas from semi- and non-parametric inference, high-dimensional and large-scale inference, targeted or debiased machine learning (e.g., targeted minimum loss estimation, method of sieves), and computational statistics.

    • Surprised by the Hot Hand Fallacy? A Truth in the Law of Small Numbers by Joshua B. Miller & Adam Sanjurjo: https://www.jstor.org/stable/44955325

    • Nima is on Twitter/X as @nshejazi (https://twitter.com/nshejazi) and my academic webpage is https://nimahejazi.org

    • Recent translational review paper (intended for the infectious disease science community) I was involved in describing some causal/statistical frameworks for evaluating immune markers as mediators / surrogate endpoints: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38458870/

    • The tlverse software ecosystem is on GitHub at https://github.com/tlverse and the tlverse handbook is freely available at https://tlverse.org/tlverse-handbook/

    • Dr. Hejazi annually co-teaches a causal mediation analysis workshop at SER, and notes from the latest offering are freely available at https://codex.nimahejazi.org/ser2023_mediation_workshop/

    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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    59 mins
  • Fun and Game(s) Theory with Aaditya Ramdas | Season 5 Episode 6
    May 1 2024

    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/2210.01948

      • 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
    Edited by Cameron Bopp

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    48 mins

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