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The Victorian Centre for Biostatistics. A collaboration between the Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Monash University and The University of Melbourne. https://www.vicbiostat.org.au/

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Margarita Moreno-Betancur @margaritamb.bsky.social · Apr 15

Looking forward to speaking at the CAUSALab methods seminar series next week! 👇

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 👇
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#publichealth #causalinference

Margarita Moreno-Betancur April 22 Methods Series talk, "Using missingness directed acyclic graphs (m-DAGs) to depict assumptions and guide the choice of method for handling missing data."

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MISCH hub @mischhub.bsky.social · Apr 17

Join us Wed 14 May as our biostatisticians @drkarenlamb.bsky.social & Phoebe Fitzpatrick address p-value misconceptions, explain the interpretation of p-values & confidence intervals & emphasise the importance of clinical significance in health research.

Register ➡️ ow.ly/yB4W50VAzoo #EMCR

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ViCBiostat @vicbiostat.bsky.social · Apr 9

Congratulations to Margarita on this prestigious award! 🏅

The Moran Medal is awarded every 2 years to an outstanding emerging leader in statistical science. This recognises Margarita's outstanding scientific leadership in the fields of causal inference and missing data.

More details in the 📼 below

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
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Professor Margarita Moreno-Betancur - Moran Medal 2025

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ViCBiostat @vicbiostat.bsky.social · Feb 27

Seminar announcement🗣️

Prof Kelley Kidwell (Uni of Michigan): SMARTer Trials: Integrating Patient Treatment Preferences for Pragmatic Multi-Stage Trial Design & Analyses

27 Mar, 9:30am AEDT
Online + in person @ Monash SPHPM, Melbourne

Details - www.vicbiostat.org.au/seminars

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ViCBiostat @vicbiostat.bsky.social · Feb 24

Exciting Monday news with two of our brilliant researchers awarded NHMRC Investigator Grants 🎊

Congratulations Margarita Moreno-Betancur @margaritamb.bsky.social and Julie Simpson @julieasimpson50.bsky.social

More:
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ViCBiostat @vicbiostat.bsky.social · Feb 12

Another successful workshop from our missing data methods research group ✔️Led by Margarita Moreno-Betancur @margaritamb.bsky.social, with presenters Kate Lee, Ghazaleh Dashti @ghazalehd.bsky.social, Jiaxin Zhang, Cattram Nguyen, Melissa Middleton and Jessica Xu.

Thank you to all who came along!

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ViCBiostat @vicbiostat.bsky.social · Feb 10

We're off and away with Summer School 2025!

Jonathan Sterne @jonathanasterne.bsky.social is leading our Advanced causal inference course, ably assisted by tutors Ghazaleh Dashti @ghazalehd.bsky.social, Marnie Downes, Daisy Shepherd and Jiaxin Zhang from CEBU.

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