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Casual Inference

Casual Inference

Lucy D'Agostino McGowan and Ellie Murray

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. Sponsored by the American Journal of Epidemiology.
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Goodpods has curated a list of the 10 best Casual Inference episodes, ranked by the number of listens and likes each episode have garnered from our listeners. If you are listening to Casual Inference for the first time, there's no better place to start than with one of these standout episodes. If you are a fan of the show, vote for your favorite Casual Inference episode by adding your comments to the episode page.

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

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

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

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Ellie and Lucy kick off the season and introduce our new executive buzzer, Melita! Melita is a masters student in statistics at Wake Forest University and will be helping out with the podcast (and keeping Lucy and Ellie from using too much jargon!)

Pros & Cons of RCT paper:

  • Fernainy, P., Cohen, A.A., Murray, E. et al. Rethinking the pros and cons of randomized controlled trials and observational studies in the era of big data and advanced methods: a panel discussion. BMC Proc 18 (Suppl 2), 1 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12919-023-00285-8

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Casual Inference - Health Policy with Julia Raifman | Season 2 Episode 4
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02/08/21 โ€ข 65 min

In this episode Ellie Murray and Lucy Dโ€™Agostino McGowan chat with Julia Raifman about health policy, a recent study on unemployment insurance and food insecurity, and anti racism in academia. Dr. Raifman is an assistant professor of Health Law, Policy, and Management at Boston University. Her research focuses on how health and social policies drive population health and health disparities.

๐Ÿ“ Geoffrey Rose's paper Sick Individuals and Sick Populations

๐Ÿ“Juliaโ€™s recent paper - Association Between Receipt of Unemployment Insurance and Food Insecurity Among People Who Lost Employment During the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States

PeDAGogy

Come up with a Bridgerton DAG and share it with us on Twitter! Here is one for inspiration.

Me: "Hi please fund me to do innovative research" Also me: "Sure I'll lead a DAG discussion on the @PWGTennant et al. @IJEeditorial paper... I'd like to focus on how offensively hot the guy from Bridgerton is."@mrc_ieu and @BristolTARG PhD student Mark Gibson made my day! pic.twitter.com/CFOoYhMGjt

โ€” Gareth Griffith (@Garethjgriffith) February 1, 2021

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๐ŸŽถ Our intro/outro music is courtesy of Joseph McDade.

๐Ÿ‘ฉโ€๐ŸŽจ Our artwork is by Allison Horst.

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Casual Inference - Immortal Time Bias | Season 5 Episode 3
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03/20/24 โ€ข 34 min

Lucy and Ellie chat about immortal time bias, discussing a new paper Ellie co-authored on clone-censor-weights.

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Erick Scott is founder of cStructure, a causal science startup. Erick has expertise in medicine, public health, and computational biology.

  • [email protected]
  • โ€œA causal roadmap for generating high-quality real-world evidenceโ€ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10603361/

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Nima Hejazi is an assistant professor in biostatistics at Harvard University. His methodological work often draws upon tools and ideas from semi- and non-parametric inference, high-dimensional and large-scale inference, targeted or debiased machine learning (e.g., targeted minimum loss estimation, method of sieves), and computational statistics.

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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 Public Health

Here are some links to the content we talk about in this episode:

๐Ÿ“ Jeffrey Rose article (reprint)

๐Ÿ“ Chandra Fordโ€™s public health praxis paper

๐Ÿ“ Whitneyโ€™s paper with Tyler VanderWeele on race as a cause

๐Ÿ“ Miguel Hernanโ€™s paper on well-defined interventions: Does water kill?

๐Ÿ“ NIH funding paper

๐Ÿ“ป Acadames podcast

๐Ÿ“ Miguel Hernanโ€™s AJE paper on selection bias without colliders

๐Ÿ“ฐ Local news

PeDAGogy:

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๐ŸŽถ Our intro/outro music is courtesy of Joseph McDade.

๐Ÿ‘ฉโ€๐ŸŽจ Our artwork is by Allison Horst.

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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, Observer, and more!

Here are some links to the content we talk about in this episode:

๐Ÿ“ Gideon's post on relative versus absolute risk

๐Ÿฆ Gideon's twitter account @justsaysrisks

๐ŸŽ™ Everything Hertz Podcast

๐ŸŽ™Gideon's Sensationalist Science Podcast

โœ๏ธ Gideon on Medium

๐Ÿ“ง Email Gideon for advice on getting started in Sci Comm: [email protected]

๐Ÿ‘ฉโ€๐Ÿซ PeDAGogy

๐Ÿ“ฐ Global news

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๐ŸŽถ Our intro/outro music is courtesy of Joseph McDade.๐Ÿ‘ฉโ€๐ŸŽจ Our artwork is by Allison Horst.

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Casual Inference - The Most Ambitious Crossover | Season 2 Episode 2
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12/15/20 โ€ข 52 min

In honor of the Society for Epidemiologic Research 2020 Meeting, the hosts of four epidemiology podcasts came together to record the first ever โ€œcrossover eventโ€ to talk about their experiences recording our shows and what podcasting can bring to the table for the field of epidemiology. Join the hosts of Epidemiology Counts (Bryan James), SERiousEPi (Matt Fox, Hailey Banack), Casual Inference (Lucy Dโ€™Agostino McGowan), and Shiny Epi People (Lisa Bodnar) as they engage in a fun and informative (we hope!) conversation of the burgeoning field of epidemiology podcasting, emceed by Geetika Kalloo.

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Casual Inference - Casual Inference Live from SER | Episode 14
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06/24/20 โ€ข 50 min

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

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๐ŸŽถ Our intro/outro music is courtesy of Joseph McDade.

๐Ÿ‘ฉโ€๐ŸŽจ Our artwork is by Allison Horst.

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How many episodes does Casual Inference have?

Casual Inference currently has 64 episodes available.

What topics does Casual Inference cover?

The podcast is about Mathematics, Podcasts, Epidemiology and Science.

What is the most popular episode on Casual Inference?

The episode title 'Community Engagement, Health Disparities, and Measure Development with Melody Goodman | Episode 13' is the most popular.

What is the average episode length on Casual Inference?

The average episode length on Casual Inference is 58 minutes.

How often are episodes of Casual Inference released?

Episodes of Casual Inference are typically released every 14 days.

When was the first episode of Casual Inference?

The first episode of Casual Inference was released on Nov 1, 2019.

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