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Casual Inference

By: Lucy D’Agostino McGowan and Ellie Murray
  • Summary

  • Keep it casual with the Casual Inference podcast. Your hosts Lucy D’Agostino McGowan and Ellie Murray talk all things epidemiology, statistics, data science, causal inference, and public health. In partnership with the American Journal of Epidemiology.
    2021
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Episodes
  • Starting the Conversation on Models with Alyssa Bilinski | Season 5 Episode 11
    Jul 10 2024

    Alyssa Bilinski, Peterson Family Assistant Professor of Health Policy, and Assistant Professor of Biostatistics, at Brown University School of Public Health. Her research focuses on developing novel methods for policy evaluation and applying these to identify interventions that most efficiently improve population health and well-being.

    Episode notes:

    • PNAS paper: https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2302528120

    • Shuo Feng’s pre-print: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.04.08.24305335v1

    • Our uncertainty paper: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33475686/

    Follow along on Twitter:

    • Alyssa: @ambilinski
    • The American Journal of Epidemiology: @AmJEpi

    • Ellie: @EpiEllie

    • Lucy: @LucyStats

    🎶 Our intro/outro music is courtesy of Joseph McDade
    Edited by Cameron Bopp

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    48 mins
  • Flexible methods with Edward Kennedy | Season 5 Episode 10
    Jun 26 2024

    Edward Kennedy Associate Professor, Department of Statistics & Data Science, Carnegie Mellon.

    • ehkennedy.com

    • Evaluating a Targeted Minimum Loss-Based Estimator for Capture-Recapture Analysis: An Application to HIV Surveillance in San Francisco, California: https://academic.oup.com/aje/article/193/4/673/7425624

    • Doubly Robust Capture-Recapture Methods for Estimating Population Size: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01621459.2023.2187814

    Follow along on Twitter:

    • The American Journal of Epidemiology: @AmJEpi

    • Ellie: @EpiEllie

    • Lucy: @LucyStats

    🎶 Our intro/outro music is courtesy of Joseph McDade
    Edited by Cameron Bopp

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    39 mins
  • What Sports and Feminism can tell us about Causal Inference with Sheree Bekker & Stephen Mumford | Season 5 Episode 9
    Jun 12 2024

    Sheree Bekker & Stephen Mumford are Co-directors of the Feminist Sport Lab and have a book coming soon: “Open Play: the case for feminist sport”, coming Spring 2025. Reaktion Books (UK), University of Chicago Press (US).

    Sheree Bekker: Associate Professor, University of Bath, Department for Health,

    • Centre for Qualitative Research

    • Centre for Health and Injury and Illness Prevention in Sport

    Stephen Mumford, Professor of Metaphysics, Durham University A

    • Author of Dispositions (Oxford, 1998), Russell on Metaphysics (Routledge, 2003), Laws in Nature (Routledge, 2004), David Armstrong (Acumen, 2007), Watching Sport: Aesthetics, Ethics and Emotion (Routledge, 2011), Getting Causes from Powers (Oxford, 2011 with Rani Lill Anjum), Metaphysics: a Very Short Introduction (Oxford, 2012) and Causation: a Very Short Introduction (Oxford, 2013 with Rani Lill Anjum). I was editor of George Molnar's posthumous Powers: a Study in Metaphysics (Oxford, 2003) and Metaphysics and Science (Oxford, 2013 with Matthew Tugby).
    • Feminist Sport Lab: https://www.feministsportlab.com

    • Causation: A Very Short Introduction by Stephen Mumford & Rani Lill Anjum: https://academic.oup.com/book/616

    • Faye Norby, Iditarod champion & epidemiologist: https://www.kfyrtv.com/2024/03/28/faye-norby-finishes-iditarod-trail-womens-foot-champion/?outputType=amp

    Follow along on Twitter:

    • The American Journal of Epidemiology: @AmJEpi

    • Ellie: @EpiEllie

    • Lucy: @LucyStats

    🎶 Our intro/outro music is courtesy of Joseph McDade
    Edited by Cameron Bopp

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    50 mins

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