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Stata 1: Introduction to Stata: Managing Your Data - Murdoch Children's Research Institute

Clinical Epi & Biostatistics Unit (CEBU) @cebu-melbourne.bsky.social · Aug 28

🚨 Our popular two-part #Stata course is coming up soon — running virtually on Oct 14 & 15! Register via:
📊 Stata 1: mcri.edu.au/research/res...
📈 Stata 2: mcri.edu.au/research/res...
👉 Registrations close two weeks prior!
📝Self-study option aviable for MCRI staff- email us for details!

REDCap 1: Introduction to REDCap - Murdoch Children's Research Institute

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Clinical Epi & Biostatistics Unit (CEBU) @cebu-melbourne.bsky.social · Aug 15

Master REDCap for your research! 💻 MCRI’s REDCap I course covers all the essentials for managing study data. Next offering: Sept 2 online via Zoom. Register: mcri.edu.au/research/res... #REDCap #ResearchSkills
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Introduction to Biostatistics - Murdoch Children's Research Institute

Clinical Epi & Biostatistics Unit (CEBU) @cebu-melbourne.bsky.social · Aug 25

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Clinical Epi & Biostatistics Unit (CEBU) @cebu-melbourne.bsky.social · Aug 25

📢 Australian Trials Methodology Conference 2025
🗓 20 Nov | 📍Melbourne & Online via Zoom
Join leading speakers from academia, industry & healthcare.
🎟 Early-bird rates until 26 Sep!
🔗Register: atmc25.com
#ClinicalTrials #TrialMethodology #Biostatistics
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Clinical Epi & Biostatistics Unit (CEBU) @cebu-melbourne.bsky.social · Aug 15

📊 Boost your research skills with MCRI’s Intro to Biostatistics! Learn study design, data analysis & result interpretation. 🗓️ Sept 8–12 🕘9AM-12.30 PM| 💻 Online via Zoom. Register: mcri.edu.au/researcher-t...
#Biostatistics #Research

REDCap 1: Introduction to REDCap - Murdoch Children's Research Institute

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Clinical Epi & Biostatistics Unit (CEBU) @cebu-melbourne.bsky.social · Aug 15

Master REDCap for your research! 💻 MCRI’s REDCap I course covers all the essentials for managing study data. Next offering: Sept 2 online via Zoom. Register: mcri.edu.au/research/res... #REDCap #ResearchSkills
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Designing Your Research Study - Murdoch Children's Research Institute

Clinical Epi & Biostatistics Unit (CEBU) @cebu-melbourne.bsky.social · Jul 10

📢 Now open for registration: Designing Your Research Study (13–14 Aug 2025).
This CEBU online course covers question development, study design, analysis planning, and more.
Details & registration:
🔗 tinyurl.com/ekpajf3a
Discounted rates available (internal, student & LMIC participants) #episky

Handling multivariable missing data in causal mediation... : Epidemiology

Clinical Epi & Biostatistics Unit (CEBU) @cebu-melbourne.bsky.social · Jul 10

🚨New method! So proud to see work led by @cttc101.bsky.social w/ @margaritamb.bsky.social @ghazalehd.bsky.social now available as an R package 📦
A powerful tool for estimating intervention effects via multiple mediators w/real examples to guide you!
Check it out ⬇️
#epitwitter #causaltwitter #rstats

Margarita Moreno-Betancur @margaritamb.bsky.social · Jul 10

1/ NEW R PACKAGE! For estimating the impact of potential interventions on multiple mediators in countering exposure effects (led by @cttc101.bsky.social)

- Paper👉 tinyurl.com/ye26jsps
- Package👉 tinyurl.com/yuh4kens

Thread shows published examples of how the method can be used! #EpiSky #CausalSky

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Ghazaleh Dashti @ghazalehd.bsky.social · Apr 2

📣 📣NEW PAPER providing guidance on best practice for using multiple imputation when estimating interventional mediation effects, considering missingness mechanism, multiple imputation model specification, & variance estimation
#CausalSky #EpiSky

Read more 👇🏽
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miologic studies. However, guidance is lacking on best practice for using multiple imputation when estimating interventional mediation effects, specifically regarding the role of missingness mechanism...

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Margarita Moreno-Betancur @margaritamb.bsky.social · Apr 8

Over the moon to have received the Moran Medal from the Australian Academy of Science!🥳

Amazing recognition, hopefully highlighting the key role of biostats & causal inference in high-quality research vimeo.com/1065735362
tinyurl.com/2m3dx2ms
@cebu-melbourne.bsky.social @vicbiostat.bsky.social

Professor Margarita Moreno-Betancur - Moran Medal 2025

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Tong Chen @cttc101.bsky.social · Apr 24

Thrilled to share our new preprint on causal ML for mediation analysis! We introduce causal ML estimators for interventional effects explicitly mapped to target trials assessing hypothetical interventions inducing distinct shifts in joint mediator distributions📊 📈🧪
#CausalSky #EpiSky

ArXiv Paperboy (Stat.ME+Econ.EM) @paperposterbot.bsky.social · Apr 23

link 📈🤖
Causal machine learning for high-dimensional mediation analysis using interventional effects mapped to a target trial (Chen, Vansteelandt, Burgner et al) Causal mediation analysis examines causal pathways linking exposures to disease. The estimation of interventional effects, which are me

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Margarita Moreno-Betancur @margaritamb.bsky.social · Apr 23

Recording of my talk @causalab.bsky.social on using m-DAGs to guide the treatment of missing data now available 👇 #EpiSky #CausalSky

CAUSALab @causalab.bsky.social · Apr 22

Check out the last Methods Series talk now on YouTube:
youtu.be/QuQnZ4don54?...

CAUSALab @causalab.bsky.social · Apr 8

2 weeks away!

@margaritamb.bsky.social (Murdoch Children's Research Institute, University of Melbourne) continues the 2025 Methods Series @ki.se.

📆 April 22, 2025
⏰ 13.00 CEST/7.00 ET
📍 All Methods Series talks virtual

Register now 👇
stats.sender.net/forms/e7JD1d...
#publichealth #causalinference

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Clinical Epi & Biostatistics Unit (CEBU) @cebu-melbourne.bsky.social · Jul 2

🚨 A MUST-READ by John Carlin and @margaritamb.bsky.social including 6 commentaries and rejoinder

NOW PUBLISHED:
“On the Uses and Abuses of Regression Models: A Call for Reform of Statistical Practice and Teaching”

Margarita Moreno-Betancur @margaritamb.bsky.social · Jul 2

NOW PUBLISHED! Featured article + 6 Commentaries + Rejoinder: “On the Uses and Abuses of Regression Models: A Call for Reform of Statistical Practice and Teaching” with my colleague John Carlin
tinyurl.com/2z2tmkhh
@cebu-melbourne.bsky.social @vicbiostat.bsky.social #EpiSky #CausalSky #StatsSky

Rejoinder to Commentaries on: On the Uses and Abuses of Regression Models: A Call for Reform of Statistical Practice and Teaching

Click on the article title to read more.

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Ghazaleh Dashti @ghazalehd.bsky.social · May 1

📢 New Commentary: We discuss how analytic choices impact interpretation of studies on socioeconomic health inequities. We review 1) descriptive analogues of causal estimands (à la Young et al) with competing events; 2) timescale choice; and 3) covariate adjustment.
👉 academic.oup.com/aje/advance-...

Invited commentary: Descriptive social epidemiology: putting the question before the methods

Abstract. In studies describing socioeconomic inequities in health outcomes, the choice of estimand and the planned analytic approach are central to the in

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Clinical Epi & Biostatistics Unit (CEBU) @cebu-melbourne.bsky.social · Apr 24

If you have taken the course before, you can register for the extra half day on descriptive & predictive questions only, or register for a refresher of the entire course at a reduced rate! We also offer discounted rates for participants from LMICs

Clinical Epi & Biostatistics Unit (CEBU) @cebu-melbourne.bsky.social · Apr 24

📊 Observational Studies: Modern Concepts & Analytic Methods
✍️This course provides a comprehensive introduction to key concepts for observational studies in clinical and health research
📅 Next online iteration: 19–23 May from 9 AM-1PM each day
🔗https://shorturl.at/CYDUB

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Clinical Epi & Biostatistics Unit (CEBU) @cebu-melbourne.bsky.social · Apr 24

🚨 Our popular two-part #Stata course is back — running virtually on May 6 & 7!
📊 Stata 1: mcri.edu.au/research/res...
📈 Stata 2: mcri.edu.au/research/res...
👉 Visit the links to register for a spot!

Stata 1 - Online and Classroom Mode - Murdoch Children's Research Institute

REDCap II - Murdoch Children's Research Institute

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Clinical Epi & Biostatistics Unit (CEBU) @cebu-melbourne.bsky.social · Apr 10

Looking to advance your #REDCap skills?🖥️

Registrations are now open for the "REDCap II: Beyond the Basics" half day online course run by us, scheduled to be held on the 29th of April:
www.mcri.edu.au/research/res...

REDCap II - Murdoch Children's Research Institute

Clinical Epi & Biostatistics Unit (CEBU) @cebu-melbourne.bsky.social · Apr 10

Looking to advance your #REDCap skills?🖥️

Registrations are now open for the "REDCap II: Beyond the Basics" half day online course run by us, scheduled to be held on the 29th of April:
www.mcri.edu.au/research/res...

Professor Margarita Moreno-Betancur - Moran Medal 2025

Clinical Epi & Biostatistics Unit (CEBU) @cebu-melbourne.bsky.social · Apr 10

Huge congratulations to our incredible Co-Director on this well-deserved recognition! 🏅🎉

Margarita Moreno-Betancur @margaritamb.bsky.social · Apr 8

Over the moon to have received the Moran Medal from the Australian Academy of Science!🥳

Amazing recognition, hopefully highlighting the key role of biostats & causal inference in high-quality research vimeo.com/1065735362
tinyurl.com/2m3dx2ms
@cebu-melbourne.bsky.social @vicbiostat.bsky.social

This is "Professor Margarita Moreno-Betancur - Moran Medal 2025" by Australian Academy of Science on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people…

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