Observational Causal Analyses with Erick Scott | Season 5 Episode 8

05/29/24 • 51 min

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

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“A causal roadmap for generating high-quality real-world evidence” https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10603361/

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The American Journal of Epidemiology: @AmJEpi
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🎶 Our intro/outro music is courtesy of Joseph McDadeEdited by Cameron Bopp

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

[email protected]
“A causal roadmap for generating high-quality real-world evidence” https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10603361/

Follow along on Twitter:

The American Journal of Epidemiology: @AmJEpi
Ellie: @EpiEllie
Lucy: @LucyStats

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

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Friends Let Friends Do Mediation Analysis with Nima Hejazi | Season 5 Episode 7

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.

Surprised by the Hot Hand Fallacy? A Truth in the Law of Small Numbers by Joshua B. Miller & Adam Sanjurjo: https://www.jstor.org/stable/44955325
Nima is on Twitter/X as @nshejazi ( https://twitter.com/nshejazi) and my academic webpage is https://nimahejazi.org
Recent translational review paper (intended for the infectious disease science community) I was involved in describing some causal/statistical frameworks for evaluating immune markers as mediators / surrogate endpoints: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38458870/
The tlverse software ecosystem is on GitHub at https://github.com/tlverse and the tlverse handbook is freely available at https://tlverse.org/tlverse-handbook/
Dr. Hejazi annually co-teaches a causal mediation analysis workshop at SER, and notes from the latest offering are freely available at https://codex.nimahejazi.org/ser2023_mediation_workshop/

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The American Journal of Epidemiology: @AmJEpi
Ellie: @EpiEllie
Lucy: @LucyStats

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

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What Sports and Feminism can tell us about Causal Inference with Sheree Bekker & Stephen Mumford | Season 5 Episode 9

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,

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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