Casual Inference
70 episodes - English - Latest episode: 12 days ago - ★★★★★ - 99 ratingsKeep 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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COVID-19, Masks, and Designing Observational Studies | Episode 12
May 22, 2020 17:05 - 35 minutes - 28 MBEllie Murray and Lucy D'Agostino McGowan chat about coronavirus, the evidence we have about masks, and designing observational studies. Follow along on Twitter: The American Journal of Epidemiology: @AmJEpi Ellie: @EpiEllie Lucy: @LucyStats 🎶 Our intro/outro music is courtesy of Joseph McDade. 👩🎨 Our artwork is by Allison Horst.
COVID-19, Masks, and Designing Observational Studies
May 22, 2020 17:05 - 35 minutes - 28 MBEllie Murray and Lucy D'Agostino McGowan chat about coronavirus, the evidence we have about masks, and designing observational studies. Follow along on Twitter: The American Journal of Epidemiology: @AmJEpi Ellie: @EpiEllie Lucy: @LucyStats 🎶 Our intro/outro music is courtesy of Joseph McDade. 👩🎨 Our artwork is by Allison Horst.
Getting Bayesian with Frank Harrell
April 22, 2020 16:01 - 57 minutes - 46.1 MBEllie 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 i...
Getting Bayesian with Frank Harrell | Episode 11
April 22, 2020 16:01 - 57 minutes - 46.1 MBEllie 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 i...
Coronavirus Conversations 2
April 09, 2020 10:00 - 57 minutes - 53.3 MBEllie 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 Follow along on Twitter: The American Journal of Epidemiology: @AmJEpi Ellie: @EpiEllie Lucy: @LucyStats 🎶 Our intro/outro music is cour...
Coronavirus Conversations 2 | Episode 10
April 09, 2020 10:00 - 57 minutes - 53.3 MBEllie 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 Follow along on Twitter: The American Journal of Epidemiology: @AmJEpi Ellie: @EpiEllie Lucy: @LucyStats 🎶 Our intro/outro music is cour...
Coronavirus Conversations | Episode 09
March 19, 2020 10:00 - 1 hour - 63.5 MBEllie 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 💃 Ell...
Coronavirus Conversations
March 19, 2020 10:00 - 1 hour - 63.5 MBEllie 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 💃 Ell...
Causal inference for data science with Sean Taylor | Episode 08
February 20, 2020 11:00 - 1 hour - 68.6 MBEllie 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 Follow along on Twitter: The American Journal of Epidemiology: @AmJEpi Ellie: @EpiEllie Lucy: @LucySta...
Causal inference for data science with Sean Taylor
February 20, 2020 11:00 - 1 hour - 68.6 MBEllie 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 Follow along on Twitter: The American Journal of Epidemiology: @AmJEpi Ellie: @EpiEllie Lucy: @LucySta...
Asking harder causal questions with Whitney Robinson | Episode 07
February 06, 2020 11:00 - 1 hour - 60.6 MBEllie Murray and Lucy D'Agostino McGowan chat with Whitney Robinson from the Departments of Epidemiology at University of North Carolina Gillings School of Global Public Health Here are some links to the content we talk about in this episode: 📝 Jeffrey Rose article (reprint) 📝 Chandra Ford’s public health praxis paper 📝 Whitney’s paper with Tyler VanderWeele on race as a cause 📝 Miguel Hernan’s paper on well-defined interventions: Does water kill? 📝 NIH funding paper 📻 Acadame...
Asking harder causal questions with Whitney Robinson
February 06, 2020 11:00 - 1 hour - 60.6 MBEllie Murray and Lucy D'Agostino McGowan chat with Whitney Robinson from the Departments of Epidemiology at University of North Carolina Gillings School of Global Public Health Here are some links to the content we talk about in this episode: 📝 Jeffrey Rose article (reprint) 📝 Chandra Ford’s public health praxis paper 📝 Whitney’s paper with Tyler VanderWeele on race as a cause 📝 Miguel Hernan’s paper on well-defined interventions: Does water kill? 📝 NIH funding paper 📻 Acadame...
Internal and External Validity with Elizabeth Stuart | Episode 06
January 23, 2020 12:56 - 1 hour - 72.8 MBEllie Murray and Lucy D'Agostino McGowan chat with Elizabeth Stuart from the Departments of Mental Health, Biostatistics, and Health Policy and Management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Here are some links to the content we talk about in this episode: 📝 Kern et al paper on Assessing Methods for Generalizing Experimental Impact Estimates to Target Populations 📝 Article by Sherri Rose on Liz Stuart (baby pics!) 🌐 Liz Stuart's website 📰 Local news Naomi Dist...
Science Communication with Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz | Episode 05
January 09, 2020 11:00 - 1 hour - 65.6 MBEllie Murray and Lucy D'Agostino McGowan chat with Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz, an epidemiologist studying at the University of Wollongong and a science communication writer for the Guardian, Observer, and more! Here are some links to the content we talk about in this episode: 📝 Gideon's post on relative versus absolute risk 🐦 Gideon's twitter account @justsaysrisks 🎙 Everything Hertz Podcast 🎙Gideon's Sensationalist Science Podcast ✍️ Gideon on Medium 📧 Email Gideon for advice on g...
Quantitative Bias Analysis with Matt Fox | Episode 04
December 19, 2019 11:00 - 1 hour - 62.7 MBEllie Murray and Lucy D'Agostino McGowan chat with Matt Fox from the Departments of Epidemiology and Global Health at Boston University. Here are some links to the content we talk about in this episode: 📄 Paper discussing a null association between smoking during pregnancy and breast cancer risk 📚 Matt's textbook on quantitative bias analysis 🔗 Bias analysis website: sites.google.com/site/biasanalysis/ 📰 Global news Wang and Blei's The Blessing of Multiple Causes Obgurn, Shpitser...
Fairness in Machine Learning with Sherri Rose | Episode 03
December 05, 2019 11:00 - 1 hour - 52 MBEllie Murray and Lucy D'Agostino McGowan chat with Sherri Rose from the Department of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School. Here are some links to the content we talk about in this episode: 📄 Paper by Anna Zink and Sherri Rose: Fair Regression for Health Care Spending 📄 The Blessing of Multiple Causes 📄 Dissecting racial bias in an algorithm used to manage the health of populations 📚 Sherri's books on targeted learning 🔗 Sherri's website: drsherrirose.org 🔗 Data for Black li...
Socializing about Social Epidemiology with Onyebuchi Arah | Episode 02
November 22, 2019 14:00 - 57 minutes - 45.4 MBEllie Murray and Lucy D'Agostino McGowan chat with Onyebuchi Arah from the Department of Epidemiology and UCLA Fielding School of Public Health about Social Epidemiology. Here are some links to the content we talk about in this episode: 📄 Study in Science Advances demonstrating the funding gap in research on the community level 📄 Matt Fox’s E-value study published in the American Journal of Epidemiology 👏 What Lucy is enjoying this week: Normcore tech newsletter 📰 Our local news: ...
Talking Target Trials with Miguel Hernan | Episode 01
November 08, 2019 14:00 - 53 minutes - 41.3 MBEllie 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 th...
Casual Inference: Talking Target Trials with Miguel Hernan | Episode 01
November 08, 2019 14:00 - 53 minutes - 41.3 MBEllie 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 th...
Keeping it casual: the pilot | Episode 00
November 01, 2019 14:13 - 8 minutes - 8.16 MBEllie Murray and Lucy D'Agostino McGowan try to keep it casual in this quick teaser to introduce you to the types of things the Casual Inference podcast will include. Follow along on Twitter: The American Journal of Epidemiology: @AmJEpi Ellie: @EpiEllie Lucy: @LucyStats Our intro/outro music is courtesy of Joseph McDade.