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Lucy D’Agostino McGowan

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Biostatistician • Associate Prof @ Wake Forest University • former postdoc @ Hopkins Biostat • PhD @ Vandy Biostat • 🎙 Casual Inference • lucymcgowan.com

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Lucy D’Agostino McGowan @lucystats.bsky.social · Jan 31

a bit more #Severance data
please enjoy all analyses equally

👉 lucymcgowan.github.io/mdr-website/

and for my #rstats friends:
👉 lucymcgowan.github.io/mdr/

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Lucy D’Agostino McGowan @lucystats.bsky.social · 1d

If you’re at the ISI conference, I’ll be here until Friday!

Wake Forest Statistical Sciences @wakeforeststats.bsky.social · 1d

Associate Professor @lucystats.bsky.social spoke today at the ISI World Statistics Congress in The Hague on how “Causal inference is not just a statistics problem”

You can find her slides here: www.lucymcgowan.com/talk/isi_wor...

Lucy D’Agostino McGowan @lucystats.bsky.social · 11d

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Emil Hvitfeldt @emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social · 13d

Quick little update to quarto-revealjs-editable

Now works with `::: editable` in addition to `::: {.editable}`. Not shown in gif.
github.com/EmilHvitfeld...
#quarto

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Lucy D’Agostino McGowan @lucystats.bsky.social · 18d

Some corrected headlines 🙏

MMR and V separately, as is common in this age group, is still recommended and available

Lucy D’Agostino McGowan @lucystats.bsky.social · 18d

Not loving these MMRV headlines, they feel misleading! The vast majority of kids under 4 in this country get MMR and V separately when they’re ~1 and this is what will still happen. The combined MMRV is what is changing, but that was not commonly given to young children already

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Lucy D’Agostino McGowan @lucystats.bsky.social · 19d

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Lucy D’Agostino McGowan @lucystats.bsky.social · 19d

Another delightful #positconf in the books! So lovely to see everyone 🌻 I miss it already!

Especially excited about:
🤖 @minecr.bsky.social’s aifeedr
🌬️ Making my code pretty like @davisvaughan.bsky.social’s with air
✨ @emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social’s editable quarto magic
📈 everything @kjhealy.co said

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Lucy D’Agostino McGowan @lucystats.bsky.social · 27d

(So in my case the Xs tend to be baseline characteristics measured at time 0, y would be something measured at some time after 0)

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Lucy D’Agostino McGowan @lucystats.bsky.social · 27d

I think in my research it is very unusual for someone’s Y to be my X if we otherwise have the same Xs because I’m thinking of estimating causal effects where temporarily Y must follow X but maybe there are lots of use cases I’m not thinking about!

Lucy D’Agostino McGowan @lucystats.bsky.social · 27d

This is interesting I think I would have come to the opposite conclusion that more often in practice we have our Xs not Y so deterministic may be more practical of the two!

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Amstat-American Statistical Association @amstatnews.bsky.social · Aug 25

StatFest 2025 is here! This program connects undergrad students from historically underrepresented groups with industry experts in stats, data science, and academia. Sept. 11, 18, & 25. Free and virtual. Register today: community.amstat.org...
#StatFest2025 #DataScience #Statistics #STEMCareers

A group shot of the 2024 StatFest participants.

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Lucy D’Agostino McGowan @lucystats.bsky.social · Aug 23

I will!!

Lucy D’Agostino McGowan @lucystats.bsky.social · Aug 23

I know 🥲 she’s to talented!!

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Lucy D’Agostino McGowan @lucystats.bsky.social · Aug 23

My extremely talented baby sister was featured in this @redbull.com documentary that was released today!

watch the whole thing here 👇
www.soundsofredbull.com/scoring-chal...

listen to more of Teesa’s music:
open.spotify.com/artist/2CttZ...
www.teesadagostino.com

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Lucy D’Agostino McGowan @lucystats.bsky.social · Aug 21

a cartoon cat wearing sunglasses has the word omg on its chest

ALT: a cartoon cat wearing sunglasses has the word omg on its chest

media.tenor.com

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Libby Heeren @libbyheeren.bsky.social · Aug 20

Does Jenny Bryan #VibeCode? 🤔

She shared on the Hangout that she's been thankful that she gets to learn #rust and #typscript in the age of #AI and these are her thoughts on #LLM use. (We really need a #RubberDuck emoji 🦆)

#rstats #databs #VibeCoding #DSHangout #python

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Lucy D’Agostino McGowan @lucystats.bsky.social · Aug 20

Wake Forest also has a medical school & recently joined with Advocate Health making us the nation’s third largest nonprofit integrated health system — a huge opportunity if you’re interested in big (Huge!) data/ EHR /pragmatic trials etc. Several of us have joint appointments in the medical school 🤝

Lucy D’Agostino McGowan @lucystats.bsky.social · Aug 20

We have 9-month contracts (Aug - May) & are on “hard money” in a Statistical Sciences department — many of us cover the summer on external grants (although this isn’t required!)

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Lucy D’Agostino McGowan @lucystats.bsky.social · Aug 20

We are hiring into 3 (THREE!) tenure track lines this year at Wake Forest — if you’re looking please reach out, I love chatting about our department! We are a vibrant group that love & embrace the teacher-scholar model 👩‍🏫

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Wake Forest University @wakeforest.bsky.social · Aug 19

Wake Forest will welcome more than 1,500 first-year students this week as the Class of 2029 arrives from 45 states, the District of Columbia and 22 countries.

WFU to welcome Class of 2029 this week | Wake Forest News

On April 20, Wake Forest University will welcome more than 1,500 first-year students, most of whom were born the year the iPhone debuted and the Harry Potter book series concluded. The Class of 2029 includes students from 45 states and the District of Columbia. Twenty-two countries are

wakefo.rest

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Nick Huntington-Klein @nickchk.com · Aug 19

I've stumbled upon an odd data resource. The FCC "Mapping Broadband Health in America" tool purports to be about mapping broadband internet access, but actually is the easiest source I've ever found for linking state-level averages across a zillion different topics c2h.fcc.gov/broadband-he...

Mapping Broadband Health in America - Connect2Health FCC

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