Latest Inference Podcast Episodes
Asking questions that matter, getting answers that help | Season 3 Episode 7
Casual Inference - December 05, 2021 20:33 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 99 ratingsIn this episode Lucy D'Agostino McGowan and Ellie Murray chat about their Spotify Wrapped for Casual Inference, and Ellie Murray talks about causal inference for complex data with the University of Minnesota’s epidemiology department. Follow along on Twitter: The American Journal of Epide...
A Casual Look at Causal Inference History | Season 3 Episode 6
Casual Inference - November 22, 2021 12:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 99 ratingsIn this episode Lucy D'Agostino McGowan and Ellie Murray chat about the history of causal inference, tracing the origins across disciplines from statistics to economics, epidemiology, and computer science, discussing contributions from Rubin, Robins, Pearl, and more! Follow along on Twitter: ...
Hanging out in the data science trough of disillusionment with Hilary Parker | Season 3 Episode 5
Casual Inference - November 08, 2021 12:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 99 ratingsIn this episode Lucy D'Agostino McGowan and Ellie Murray chat with Hilary Parker about design thinking for data analysis, the Dunning-Kruger effect, and the potential data behind baby Yoda. Follow along on Twitter: Hilary: @hspter The American Journal of Epidemiology: @AmJEpi Ellie: @EpiE...
Metascience with Noah Haber | Season 3 Episode 4
Casual Inference - October 25, 2021 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 99 ratingsIn this episode Lucy D'Agostino McGowan and Ellie Murray chat with Noah Haber about metascience, causal language in the literature, and more! 🥇 Causal Inference Nobel Prize Press Release 📝 Causal and Associational Linking Language From Observational Research and Health Evaluation Literature...
Solving Optimization Problems in Healthcare and Disney Theme Parks with Len Testa | Season 3 Episode 3
Casual Inference - October 11, 2021 11:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 99 ratingsIn this episode Lucy D'Agostino McGowan and Ellie Murray chat with Len Testa, president of TouringPlans, about solving optimization problems in travel and healthcare. 📦 Lucy's R package with touringplans data Len's slide on model choices: Follow along on Twitter: Len: @LenTesta The Ameri...
Causal Inference and Network Science for Public Health with Ashley Buchanan | Season 3 Episode 2
Casual Inference - September 27, 2021 14:39 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 99 ratingsIn this episode Lucy D'Agostino McGowan and Ellie Murray chat with Ashley Buchanan about causal inference with a focus on networks. Dr. Buchanan is an assistant professor of Biostatistics in the Department of Pharmacy Practice at the University of Rhode Island. 🔗 Dr. Buchanan's website Follo...
Coronavirus Rapid Tests Sensitivity, Specificity, Messaging, and Use Cases | Season 3 Episode 1
Casual Inference - September 13, 2021 15:43 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 99 ratingsIn this episode Ellie Murray and Lucy D’Agostino McGowan do a series recap and then discuss sensitivity, specificity, and appropriate messaging in the context of coronavirus rapid tests. 📝 Evaluation of the Abbott BinaxNOW rapid antigen test for SARS-CoV-2 infection in children: Implications f...
Our Michael Jordan Episode | Season 2 Episode 5
Casual Inference - March 02, 2021 13:32 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 99 ratingsIn this 23rd episode of Casual Inference Ellie Murray and Lucy D'Agostino McGowan chat about fixed vs random effect, complete a statistics challenge, and talk about DAGs. 🐦 Tweet from @jtc475 about fixed vs random effects terminology 🎲 This is Statistics March Randomness Challenge 📝 Lucy, ...
Health Policy with Julia Raifman | Season 2 Episode 4
Casual Inference - February 08, 2021 13:19 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 99 ratingsIn this episode Ellie Murray and Lucy D’Agostino McGowan chat with Julia Raifman about health policy, a recent study on unemployment insurance and food insecurity, and anti racism in academia. Dr. Raifman is an assistant professor of Health Law, Policy, and Management at Boston University. Her r...
Celebrating 100 years with a look forwards and back with the D'Agostinos | Season 2 Episode 3
Casual Inference - January 21, 2021 15:15 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 99 ratingsIn this episode Ellie Murray and Lucy D’Agostino McGowan chat with Ralph D’Agostino Sr. and Ralph D’Agostino Jr. about their careers in statistics, looking back at how things have developed and forward at where they see the world of statistics and epidemiology going. We’re excited to kick off th...
The Most Ambitious Crossover | Season 2 Episode 2
Casual Inference - December 15, 2020 03:13 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 99 ratingsIn honor of the Society for Epidemiologic Research 2020 Meeting, the hosts of four epidemiology podcasts came together to record the first ever “crossover event” to talk about their experiences recording our shows and what podcasting can bring to the table for the field of epidemiology. Join the...
Happy Anniversary to Us! | Season 2 Episode 1
Casual Inference - November 13, 2020 22:26 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 99 ratingsEllie Murray and Lucy D'Agostino McGowan chat about ecological studies, the new Pfizer vaccine interim analysis, and more! 📈 Vanderbilt University Department of Health Policy's COVID-19 Deaths in Tennessee and Adoption of Mask Requirements (h/t Peter Rebeiro) 📈 The original masks v no masks...
Why Everyone is Excited About Causal Inference These Days with Roger Peng | Episode 18
Casual Inference - October 30, 2020 23:11 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 99 ratingsEllie Murray and Lucy D'Agostino McGowan chat about communicating uncertainty, how air pollution policy is determined, and whether causal inference is a fad with Dr. Roger Peng from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Follow along on Twitter: The American Journal of Epidemiology:...
Thinking About Schools Reopening From a Causal Perspective with Emily Oster | Episode 17
Casual Inference - October 16, 2020 12:43 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 99 ratingsEllie Murray and Lucy D'Agostino McGowan talk about the causal questions linked to schools opening during the COVID-19 pandemic. Then they have Dr. Emily Oster, professor of economics at Brown University, on to discuss her thoughts on and contributions to this area. 📄 Emily's Atlantic Piece Sc...
An Ode to Generalized Linear Models | Episode 16
Casual Inference - October 02, 2020 15:58 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 99 ratingsEllie Murray and Lucy D'Agostino McGowan casually discuss linear versus logistic regression, prediction versus inference, generalized linear models, and more! 📄Robin Gomila's paper: "Logistic or linear? Estimating causal effects on experimental treatments on binary outcomes using regression an...
Methodological Advances in Causal Inference with Betsy Ogburn | Episode 15
Casual Inference - September 17, 2020 22:09 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 99 ratingsEllie Murray and Lucy D'Agostino McGowan discuss methodological advancement in causal inference with Dr. Elizabeth Ogburn from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. 📄 Wang & Blei's The Blessings of Multiple Causes paper 🦠 COVID-19 Collaboration Platform 📈 COVID-19 Meta-dashboar...
Casual Inference Live from SER | Episode 14
Casual Inference - June 24, 2020 20:24 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 99 ratingsEllie Murray and Lucy D'Agostino McGowan are live for Society for Epidemiologic Research (SER) week! 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 Alli...
Community Engagement, Health Disparities, and Measure Development with Melody Goodman | Episode 13
Casual Inference - June 04, 2020 18:52 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 99 ratingsEllie Murray and Lucy D'Agostino McGowan discuss community engagement, health disparities, and measure development with Dr. Melody Goodman from New York University Global School of Public Health. 🐦 Jonathan Jackson's tweet on the importance of measures of dispersion 📄 Goodman's paper Reachin...
COVID-19, Masks, and Designing Observational Studies
Casual Inference - May 22, 2020 17:05 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 99 ratingsEllie 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 M...
COVID-19, Masks, and Designing Observational Studies | Episode 12
Casual Inference - May 22, 2020 17:05 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 99 ratingsEllie 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 M...
Getting Bayesian with Frank Harrell
Casual Inference - April 22, 2020 16:01 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 99 ratingsEllie 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...
Getting Bayesian with Frank Harrell | Episode 11
Casual Inference - April 22, 2020 16:01 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 99 ratingsEllie 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...
Coronavirus Conversations 2 | Episode 10
Casual Inference - April 09, 2020 10:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 99 ratingsEllie 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 ...
Coronavirus Conversations 2
Casual Inference - April 09, 2020 10:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 99 ratingsEllie 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 ...
Coronavirus Conversations
Casual Inference - March 19, 2020 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 99 ratingsEllie 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 ...
Coronavirus Conversations | Episode 09
Casual Inference - March 19, 2020 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 99 ratingsEllie 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 ...
Causal inference for data science with Sean Taylor | Episode 08
Casual Inference - February 20, 2020 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 99 ratingsEllie 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 📝...
Causal inference for data science with Sean Taylor
Casual Inference - February 20, 2020 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 99 ratingsEllie 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 📝...
Asking harder causal questions with Whitney Robinson | Episode 07
Casual Inference - February 06, 2020 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 99 ratingsEllie 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...
Asking harder causal questions with Whitney Robinson
Casual Inference - February 06, 2020 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 99 ratingsEllie 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...
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