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Myra McGuinness @myramcguinness.bsky.social · 1d

Join the October @vicbiostat.bsky.social seminar to hear Prof Eric Tchetgen Tchetgen speak on proximal causal inference.

All welcome online 23 October.

More info:
www.vicbiostat.org.au/event/fortif...

#casualinference #biostatistics @upenncgh.bsky.social

Fortified Proximal Causal Inference with many imperfect negative controls

Abstract: Causal inference from observational

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Margarita Moreno-Betancur @margaritamb.bsky.social · 13d

NEW PAPER!!! "Causal Machine Learning Methods and Use of Cross‐Fitting in Settings With High‐Dimensional Confounding"

led by Susie Ellul, with Stijn Vansteelandt & John Carlin
Published in Stats in Med

Check it out 👇
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

#EpiSky #CausalSky

Causal Machine Learning Methods and Use of Cross‐Fitting in Settings With High‐Dimensional Confounding

Observational epidemiological studies commonly seek to estimate the causal effect of an exposure on an outcome. Adjustment for potential confounding bias in modern studies is challenging due to the p...

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AusTriM CRE @austrim-cre.bsky.social · 23d

Join us at the 3rd biennial Australian Trials Methodology Conference as we explore "Better trials through better methods"

Crown Promenade, Melbourne (+ online access options)
20/11/25

Early-bird registration ends 26/9

www.atmc25.com
#ClinicalTrials #Biostatistics

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Margarita Moreno-Betancur @margaritamb.bsky.social · 29d

NEW PAPER! (in press in EPIDEMIOLOGY)

Have you wondered:
- How to specify a target trial: as an ideal trial or something else?
- What biases do target trial emulations and actual RCTs share?
- How does it all relate to potential outcomes?

Read here! 👉 arxiv.org/abs/2405.10026
#EpiSky #CausalSky

The ideal trial: defining causal estimands that balance relevance and feasibility in target trial emulations and actual randomized trials

Causal inference is the goal of randomized trials and many observational studies. The first step in a formal causal inference framework is to define the causal estimand, and in both types of study thi...

arxiv.org

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Myra McGuinness @myramcguinness.bsky.social · Jul 23

We are looking forward to hearing @jonathan-bartlett.bsky.social speak on the G-formula for causal inference using synthetic multiple imputation at the July @vicbiostat.bsky.social seminar!

All welcome online Thursday 24th, 4:00pm Aus EST (7:00am UK time).

www.vicbiostat.org.au/event/g-form...

G-formula for causal inference using synthetic multiple imputation

G-formula is a popular approach for estimatin

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James Curran @profjamescurran.bsky.social · Jul 19

For those of you who don't know what Ross and Robert look like..a couple of photos from my collection. I'm sure I have better ones somewhere. The BW is from 1994 when our department formally became separate from Mathematics.

Ross Ihaka and Robert Gentleman circa 1994

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · Dec 14

it's wild that R, the ubiquitous statistical computing language, was co-created by a Māori prof (Ross Ihaka) — and yet the vast majority of scientists who use R don't know

this is like inventing the toaster. possibly the largest impact of a single member of an indigenous community on modern science

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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

tinyurl.com

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arxiv.stat.ME @arxiv-stat-me.bsky.social · Jun 10

Zhehao Zhang, Thomas S. Richardson
Individual Treatment Effect: Prediction Intervals and Sharp Bounds
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07469

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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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Triad sou. @triadsou.bsky.social · Jun 29

How hazard ratios can mislead and why it matters in practice. Elise Dumas, Mats J. Stensrud. European Journal of Epidemiology. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

How hazard ratios can mislead and why it matters in practice - European Journal of Epidemiology

Hazard ratios are routinely reported as effect measures in clinical trials and observational studies. However, many methodological works have raised concerns about the interpretation of hazard ratios ...

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USA TODAY @usatoday.com · Jun 26

Yang Hansen may not have been on the radar for some, but his tall frame quickly caught the eye of many as he made his way toward the NBA draft stage.

Who is Yang Hansen? Meet 2025 NBA Draft pick heading to Portland Trail Blazers

Yang Hansen may not have been on the radar for some, but his tall frame quickly caught the eye of many as he made his way toward the NBA draft stage.

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Tong Chen @cttc101.bsky.social · Jun 26

Happy birthday Cam!

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Maëlle Salmon @masalmon.eu · Jun 19

Quack quack! "duckplyr fully joins the tidyverse!"

Like a duck to water 😉

www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/06...

#RStats

duckplyr fully joins the tidyverse!

duckplyr 1.1.0 is on CRAN! A drop-in replacement for dplyr, powered by DuckDB for speed. It is the most dplyr-like of dplyr backends.

www.tidyverse.org

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Thomas Lumley @tslumley.bsky.social · Jun 19

I'm giving a midnight seminar for IASS next Wednesday night
isi-iass.org/home/events/...
From their point of view it's just nicely after lunch: 2pm in CEST

IASS Webinar 53: Multiphase sampling: design, analysis, computation | International Association of Survey Statisticians (IASS)

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Thomas Lumley @tslumley.bsky.social · Jun 12

I'm giving two short courses at the (online) Summer Institute run by the Biostat dept in Seattle

As usual, on complex surveys and R: si.biostat.washington.edu/institutes/s...

New! with Pam Shaw, on two-phase designs in health research
si.biostat.washington.edu/institutes/s...

Analyzing Data from Complex Surveys | Summer Institutes

si.biostat.washington.edu

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Mickaël CANOUIL, Ph.D. @mickael.canouil.fr · May 19

Streamline your workshops with GitHub Codespaces & Quarto (@posit.co) !

Skip setup headaches and dive into live, interactive sessions that make teaching a breeze.
Discover how in our latest guide.

quarto.org/docs/blog/po...

#GitHubCodespaces #Quarto #Python #JuliaLang #RStats #Workshop

How to use GitHub Codespaces to simplify your Quarto workshops – Quarto

In this post, I’ll teach you the basics of GitHub Codespaces and how to use them to make it easier to teach using Quarto.

quarto.org

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apoorva lal @apoorvalal.com · May 19

I had a hard time believing it was as simple as this until Lars taught me how to implement it - calibrate=True and you're done

github.com/apoorvalal/a...

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Thomas Lumley @tslumley.bsky.social · May 13

Young people wonder how biostat and econometrics ended up with parallel, non-intersecting literature on so many topics.

Imagine if the library copies of, say, Econometrica and Biometrika were only accessible in different buildings, potentially on different campuses

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useR! - The R User Conference @user-conf.bsky.social · May 7

We are grateful to have Simon Urbanek as a keynote speaker for useR! 2025. He is a member of the R core team, working on the maintenance of R for MacOS, creating binaries. He is an Associate Professor at The University of Auckland Department of Statistics.

Register: user2024.r-project.org
#RStats

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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

academic.oup.com

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Tong Chen @cttc101.bsky.social · Apr 24

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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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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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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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