Podcasts by Casual Inference

Prevention Strategies via the #Epicookiechallenge | Season 4 Episode 8 from 2023-03-29T18:05

Lucy D'Agostino McGowan and Ellie Murray chat with #EpiCookieChallenge winner, Viktoria Gastens!

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Sensitivity Analyses for Unmeasured Confounders | Season 4 Episode 7 from 2023-03-14T14:59

Lucy D'Agostino McGowan and Ellie Murray chat about confounding!

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Randomized Controlled Trials: Efficacy versus Effectiveness, Safety vs Safetiness | Season 4 Episode 6 from 2023-02-28T15:52

Lucy D'Agostino McGowan and Ellie Murray chat about randomized controlled trials, thinking about efficacy vs effectiveness and saftey vs safetiness.

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The Value of Instrumental Variables with Maria Glymour | Season 4 Episode 5 from 2022-12-10T14:31

Lucy D'Agostino McGowan and Ellie Murray chat with Maria Glymour, Professor of Epidemiology & Biostatstics at UCSF and incoming chair of the Department of Epidemiology at Boston University. Mari...

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Methods chat about personalized medicine and positivity in causal inference | Season 4 Episode 4 from 2022-11-30T11:30

Lucy D'Agostino McGowan and Ellie Murray chat about critiquing methods research, average treatment effects, and positivity violations!

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Hot takes and logistic regression love with Travis Gerke | Season 4 Episode 3 from 2022-11-16T14:42

Lucy D'Agostino McGowan and Ellie Murray chat with Travis Gerke, Director of Data Science at The Prostate Cancer Clinical Trials Consortium (PCCTC). This episode has lots of hot takes and lots o...

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Counterfactual Thinking: Biomarkers, Napster, and Ice-T | Season 4 Episode 2 from 2022-11-04T13:21

Lucy D'Agostino McGowan and Ellie Murray chat about counterfactuals!

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Population and Biomedical Data Science with Enrique Schisterman | Season 4 Episode 1 from 2022-10-13T10:00

In this episode Ellie Murray and Lucy D'Agostino McGowan chat with Enrique Schisterman, Perelman Professor and Chair of the Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Informatics at the Univ...

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What is the value of a p-value with Charlie Poole and Chuck Scales | Season 3 Episode 13 from 2022-05-03T21:52:25

In this episode we play the audio from a recent panel discussion co-sponsored by UNC TraCS, Duke University and Wake Forest U CTSA Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Research Design (BERD) Cores. T...

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It Depends with Sander Greenland | Season 3 Episode 12 from 2022-04-18T11:00

In this episode Lucy D'Agostino McGowan and Ellie Murray chat with Sander Greenland, Emeritus Professor of Epidemiology and Statistics at UCLA.

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The Intersection of Industrial Engineering and Causal Inference with Toyya Pujol | Season 3 Episode 11 from 2022-04-05T15:24:59

In this episode Lucy D'Agostino McGowan and Ellie Murray chat with Toyya Pujol, Operations Researcher at RAND Corporation.

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The Intersection of Machine Learning and Causal Inference with Maggie Makar | Season 3 Episode 10 from 2022-03-14T19:04:14

In this episode Lucy D'Agostino McGowan and Ellie Murray chat with Maggie Makar, Presidential postdoctoral fellow and ass...

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Artificial Intelligence, Personalized Medicine, and Causal Bounds with Judea Pearl | Season 3 Episode 9 from 2022-02-28T12:32:26

In this episode Lucy D'Agostino McGowan and Ellie Murray chat with Judea Pearl, Chancellor professor of co...

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The history of John Snow, Cholera, and Cookies with Chris Schaich | Season 3 Episode 8 from 2022-02-14T12:00:02

In this episode Lucy D'Agostino McGowan and Ellie Murray chat with #EpiCookieChallenge winner, Chris Schaich about the epidemiologist John Snow. Dr. Schaich is an assistant professor at Wake For...

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Asking questions that matter, getting answers that help | Season 3 Episode 7 from 2021-12-05T20:33:51

 

In this episode Lucy D'Agostino McGowan and Ellie Murray chat about their Spotify Wrapped for Casual Inference, and Ellie Murray talks about causal inference for complex data with the U...

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A Casual Look at Causal Inference History | Season 3 Episode 6 from 2021-11-22T12:00

In this episode Lucy D'Agostino McGowan and Ellie Murray chat about the history of causal inference, tracing the origins across disciplines from statistics to economics, epidemiology, and comput...

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Hanging out in the data science trough of disillusionment with Hilary Parker | Season 3 Episode 5 from 2021-11-08T12:00

In this episode Lucy D'Agostino McGowan and Ellie Murray chat with Hilary Parker about design thinking for data analysis, the Dunning-Kruger effect, and the potential data behind baby Yoda.

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Metascience with Noah Haber | Season 3 Episode 4 from 2021-10-25T11:00

In this episode Lucy D'Agostino McGowan and Ellie Murray chat with Noah Haber about metascience, causal language in the literature, and more!

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Solving Optimization Problems in Healthcare and Disney Theme Parks with Len Testa | Season 3 Episode 3 from 2021-10-11T11:00

In this episode Lucy D'Agostino McGowan and Ellie Murray chat with Len Testa, president of TouringPlans, about solving optim...

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Causal Inference and Network Science for Public Health with Ashley Buchanan | Season 3 Episode 2 from 2021-09-27T14:39:43

In this episode Lucy D'Agostino McGowan and Ellie Murray chat with Ashley Buchanan about causal inference with a focus on networks. Dr. Buchanan is an assistant professor of Biostatistics in the...

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Coronavirus Rapid Tests Sensitivity, Specificity, Messaging, and Use Cases | Season 3 Episode 1 from 2021-09-13T15:43:39

In this episode Ellie Murray and Lucy D’Agostino McGowan do a series recap and then discuss sensitivity, specificity, and appropriate messaging in the context of coronavirus rapid tests.

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Our Michael Jordan Episode | Season 2 Episode 5 from 2021-03-02T13:32:15

In this 23rd episode of Casual Inference Ellie Murray and Lucy D'Agostino McGowan chat about fixed vs random effect, complete a statistics challenge, and talk about DAGs.

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Health Policy with Julia Raifman | Season 2 Episode 4 from 2021-02-08T13:19:33

In this episode Ellie Murray and Lucy D’Agostino McGowan chat with Julia Raifman about health policy, a recent study on unemployment insurance and food insecurity, and anti racism in academia. D...

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Celebrating 100 years with a look forwards and back with the D'Agostinos | Season 2 Episode 3 from 2021-01-21T15:15:50

In this episode Ellie Murray and Lucy D’Agostino McGowan chat with Ralph D’Agostino Sr. and Ralph D’Agostino Jr. about their careers in statistics, looking back at how things have developed and ...

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The Most Ambitious Crossover | Season 2 Episode 2 from 2020-12-15T03:13:41

In honor of the Society for Epidemiologic Research 2020 Meeting, the hosts of four epidemiology podcasts came together to record the first ever “crossover event” to talk about their experiences ...

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Happy Anniversary to Us! | Season 2 Episode 1 from 2020-11-13T22:26:31

Ellie Murray and Lucy D'Agostino McGowan chat about ecological studies, the new Pfizer vaccine interim analysis, and more!

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Why Everyone is Excited About Causal Inference These Days with Roger Peng | Episode 18 from 2020-10-30T23:11:04

Ellie Murray and Lucy D'Agostino McGowan chat about communicating uncertainty, how air pollution policy is determined, and whether causal inference is a fad with Dr. Roger Peng from Johns Hopkin...

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Thinking About Schools Reopening From a Causal Perspective with Emily Oster | Episode 17 from 2020-10-16T12:43:33

Ellie Murray and Lucy D'Agostino McGowan talk about the causal questions linked to schools opening during the COVID-19 pandemic. Then they have Dr. Emily Oster, professor of economics at Brown U...

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An Ode to Generalized Linear Models | Episode 16 from 2020-10-02T15:58:15

Ellie Murray and Lucy D'Agostino McGowan casually discuss linear versus logistic regression, prediction versus inference, generalized linear models, and more!

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Methodological Advances in Causal Inference with Betsy Ogburn | Episode 15 from 2020-09-17T22:09:51

Ellie Murray and Lucy D'Agostino McGowan discuss methodological advancement in causal inference with Dr. Elizabeth Ogburn from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

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Casual Inference Live from SER | Episode 14 from 2020-06-24T20:24:07

Ellie Murray and Lucy D'Agostino McGowan are live for Society for Epidemiologic Research (SER) week!

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Community Engagement, Health Disparities, and Measure Development with Melody Goodman | Episode 13 from 2020-06-04T18:52:05

Ellie Murray and Lucy D'Agostino McGowan discuss community engagement, health disparities, and measure development with Dr. Melody Goodman from New York University Global School of Public Health...

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COVID-19, Masks, and Designing Observational Studies | Episode 12 from 2020-05-22T17:05:05

Ellie Murray and Lucy D'Agostino McGowan chat about coronavirus, the evidence we have about masks, and designing observational studies.

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Getting Bayesian with Frank Harrell | Episode 11 from 2020-04-22T16:01:26

Ellie Murray and Lucy D'Agostino McGowan discuss Bayesian statistics, model validation, and more, with special guest Dr. Frank Harrell from the Department of Biostatistics at Vanderbilt Universi...

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Coronavirus Conversations 2 | Episode 10 from 2020-04-09T10:00

Ellie Murray and Lucy D'Agostino McGowan discuss coronavirus a bit more, focusing on mask wearing, data quality, disease modeling, and more!

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Coronavirus Conversations | Episode 09 from 2020-03-19T10:00

Ellie Murray and Lucy D'Agostino McGowan discuss coronavirus with an added segment discussing current recommendations for people taking ACE inhibitors or ARBS with Andrew South from Wake Forest ...

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Causal inference for data science with Sean Taylor | Episode 08 from 2020-02-20T11:00

Ellie Murray and Lucy D'Agostino McGowan chat with Sean Taylor from Lyft.

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Asking harder causal questions with Whitney Robinson | Episode 07 from 2020-02-06T11:00

Ellie Murray and Lucy D'Agostino McGowan chat with Whitney Robinson from the Departments of Epidemiology at University of North Carolina Gillings School of Global...

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Internal and External Validity with Elizabeth Stuart | Episode 06 from 2020-01-23T12:56:59

Ellie Murray and Lucy D'Agostino McGowan chat with Elizabeth Stuart from the Departments of Mental Health, Biostatistics, and Health Policy and Management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School o...

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Science Communication with Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz | Episode 05 from 2020-01-09T11:00

Ellie Murray and Lucy D'Agostino McGowan chat with Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz, an epidemiologist studying at the University of Wollongong and a science communication writer for the Guardian, Observe...

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Quantitative Bias Analysis with Matt Fox | Episode 04 from 2019-12-19T11:00

Ellie Murray and Lucy D'Agostino McGowan chat with Matt Fox from the Departments of Epidemiology and Global Health at Boston University.

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