Excited to share results from a 4-year first-ever RCT across US jails. We (Crystal Yang & I) find that death rates are much higher in jails than officially reported & health care accreditation improves staff coordination, quality & save lives.
www.nber.org/papers/w33357

The repo is still private. (My custom theme needs work. 🙃) Will share a public release!

Clarification: these were entirely different major projects published in stats, econ, and clinical journals. No LPUs! Then synthesized together in a policy brief.

Great summaries, thanks!!

it's happening

EC 2025 will be held at Stanford from July 7-12. Itai Ashlagi and I are the chairs. The abstract deadline is February 3, and the paper deadline is February 10. The scope is inclusive of many topics across CS, economics, and operations research. Submit your best work!

Right?? Great build. Also very cute.

Adorable!

Indeed. Many successful academics are miserable because they are always trying to accumulate more high-profile successes. There is no enough.

Attn Tuxedo Cat People of Bluesky

There is a new Lego that looks like all of our cats! 🤩

@sarahgollust.bsky.social @dmaanderson.bsky.social

sorry but if we mention weather you know I have to do this. Stanford in December…

Academics from poorer socio-economic backgrounds are more likely to
- not publish
- have outstanding publication records
- introduce more novel scientific concepts
- less likely to receive recognition, as measured by citations, Nobel Prize nominations, and awards.
www.nber.org/papers/w33289

tl;dr Healthcare access disparities cascade through the entire ML pipeline.

Check out our working paper here: arxiv.org/pdf/2412.07712

Join me virtually next month for the International Biometric Society Distinguished Lecture on January 30!

“Ethical AI is More than Loss Functions"
www.biometricsociety.org/education/dls

Our study, the first post-implementation evaluation of the removal of race adjustment from the eGFR equation, is discussed in this Nature feature www.nature.com/articles/d41...

We found no change in nephrology referrals & visits

Our paper, led by Marika Cusick proceedings.mlr.press/v248/cusick2...

We also examined identifying intersectional groups defined by multiple health conditions here: informatics.bmj.com/content/28/1...

You may have already seen these, but we looked at comorbidities here, using constraints for multiple health conditions, which improved fairness metrics for 88% of other undercompensated conditions that weren't included as constraints: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Was a pre-med junior when a faculty member sent me a flyer about a new program called the Summer Institute for Training in Biostatistics

Had never heard of 'biostatistics' as a field; sounded like exactly what I wanted to do

Was accepted into the program, ultimately led to a PhD in biostatistics

Here's a link to the 1st 4 chapters from our 2nd targeted learning book, which handles time-varying covs, w/longitudinal TMLE in Ch 4: drsherrirose.org/s/Ch1to4_TLB.... There are also tutorials on LTMLE (e.g., onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...) & R package: cran.r-project.org/web/packages....

I mean...it feels like this is true, but this is not correct 😆

also recommendation letters 🙃

A few more! @guidoimbens.bsky.social @jugander.bsky.social @jsalomon.bsky.social @maya-rossin-slater.bsky.social @susanathey.bsky.social @russpoldrack.bsky.social

Interested in all broad feedback. 🙂 We discuss barriers to uptake in the course and potential solutions. I wanted to hear about current challenges people face to incorporate additional issues. Every organization, field, etc has different barriers.

Collaborative writing is indeed a challenge when not everyone uses the same ecosystem. We currently use quarto, but not all collaborators do. So this might involve exporting a word file and merging those comments back into the .qmd. Not a seamless solution, but better than some others we've used.