Tony Roberts
@tonyroberts.bsky.social
PhD candidate in Health Services Research @BrownHSPP interested in #HEOR #MedTech #Episky #HealthEquity #RegulatoryScience #Rstats
Honored to be named an ASHEcon 2025 Diversity Scholar! Grateful for this recognition as DEI faces scrutiny across sectors. Thanks to ASHEcon, Arnold Ventures & Compass Lexecon for showing diverse voices are essential in health economics. See you in Nashville! #ASHEcon2025
Congrats to ASHEcon 2025 Diversity Scholar Winner Anthony Roberts, whose research focuses on assessing the health and economic outcomes of medical technologies, with particular emphasis on identifying and addressing healthcare disparities.
March 25, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Honored to be named an ASHEcon 2025 Diversity Scholar! Grateful for this recognition as DEI faces scrutiny across sectors. Thanks to ASHEcon, Arnold Ventures & Compass Lexecon for showing diverse voices are essential in health economics. See you in Nashville! #ASHEcon2025
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Our JSS article is out!
And now I get to focus on {marginaleffects} 1.0.0. Stay tuned.
www.jstatsoft.org/article/view...
And now I get to focus on {marginaleffects} 1.0.0. Stay tuned.
www.jstatsoft.org/article/view...
December 2, 2024 at 3:36 AM
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It's Dec 1 and you want to finally start learning R? The R advent calendaR by @kiirsti.bsky.social is an excellent place to start. Do it now! #rstats kiirstio.wixsite.com/kowen/post/t...
The 25 days of chRistmas: an R advent calendaR
Thank you for your interest in this advent calendar and learning R! R is a powerful tool for data analysis and visualization. At first, it can be really overwhelming, but after you pick up the basics,...
kiirstio.wixsite.com
December 1, 2024 at 2:17 PM
It's Dec 1 and you want to finally start learning R? The R advent calendaR by @kiirsti.bsky.social is an excellent place to start. Do it now! #rstats kiirstio.wixsite.com/kowen/post/t...
Wow!
I had zero luck with grants. People really didn’t get why what I did was important and never figured out how to explain it to them.
November 27, 2024 at 2:18 PM
Wow!
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When people ask me why I don't care about my h-index, citations, etc., I point out that racism means that's a losing game. Cause this ain't just in economics.
www.nber.org/papers/w33150
www.nber.org/papers/w33150
November 26, 2024 at 9:38 PM
When people ask me why I don't care about my h-index, citations, etc., I point out that racism means that's a losing game. Cause this ain't just in economics.
www.nber.org/papers/w33150
www.nber.org/papers/w33150
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There aren't too many of you academic epidemiology departments out here on Blue Sky yet, hopefully we can grow this starter pack from its humble foundations to a towering high rise! Please comment as more of you join so I can add you! go.bsky.app/817SC1P
November 25, 2024 at 8:37 PM
There aren't too many of you academic epidemiology departments out here on Blue Sky yet, hopefully we can grow this starter pack from its humble foundations to a towering high rise! Please comment as more of you join so I can add you! go.bsky.app/817SC1P
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When you’ve got enough PDFs to build yourself a fort 📑📑📑🏰
- after going down a literature rabbit hole 🕳️
Lets actually do some writing ✍️
Since its a blizzard outside anyway …… ☕️
#Saturday #PhD ing
#AcademicSky #MedSky
- after going down a literature rabbit hole 🕳️
Lets actually do some writing ✍️
Since its a blizzard outside anyway …… ☕️
#Saturday #PhD ing
#AcademicSky #MedSky
November 23, 2024 at 10:56 AM
When you’ve got enough PDFs to build yourself a fort 📑📑📑🏰
- after going down a literature rabbit hole 🕳️
Lets actually do some writing ✍️
Since its a blizzard outside anyway …… ☕️
#Saturday #PhD ing
#AcademicSky #MedSky
- after going down a literature rabbit hole 🕳️
Lets actually do some writing ✍️
Since its a blizzard outside anyway …… ☕️
#Saturday #PhD ing
#AcademicSky #MedSky
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To other PhD students who may find it helpful to know: I'm not working on a publication. I'm not organizing a conference, or preparing a presentation. I don't have a side project (or 2). I focus on my dissertation, & cannot do more. And that's ok. #PhDLife #AcademicSky @academic-chatter.bsky.social
November 23, 2024 at 7:39 AM
To other PhD students who may find it helpful to know: I'm not working on a publication. I'm not organizing a conference, or preparing a presentation. I don't have a side project (or 2). I focus on my dissertation, & cannot do more. And that's ok. #PhDLife #AcademicSky @academic-chatter.bsky.social
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Social media stopped being social when everyone trying to make money off it
November 21, 2024 at 5:16 PM
Social media stopped being social when everyone trying to make money off it
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Since I've been here for a while… here are some useful features on Bluesky that you might not have discovered yet! 🧵
November 20, 2024 at 7:52 PM
Since I've been here for a while… here are some useful features on Bluesky that you might not have discovered yet! 🧵
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Also the last time they did something like this they excluded rural counties from the work requirement, the argument being it’s harder to find work their, but the reality was that rural SNAP users are predominantly white and the law targeted urban, non white communities
November 20, 2024 at 8:21 PM
Also the last time they did something like this they excluded rural counties from the work requirement, the argument being it’s harder to find work their, but the reality was that rural SNAP users are predominantly white and the law targeted urban, non white communities
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By the way, I made this starter pack of some of my colleagues who do health policy related research at KFF and other think tanks & research organizations. If you’d like to be added let me know!
go.bsky.app/4qmDL5f
go.bsky.app/4qmDL5f
November 13, 2024 at 1:46 PM
By the way, I made this starter pack of some of my colleagues who do health policy related research at KFF and other think tanks & research organizations. If you’d like to be added let me know!
go.bsky.app/4qmDL5f
go.bsky.app/4qmDL5f
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𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚢𝚝𝚊𝚋𝚕𝚎 0.6.1 for #Rstats is out!
It's an ultra simple, super flexible, and 0-dependency package to draw beautiful tables in HTML, LaTeX, Typst, Word, PDF, and PNG.
And for those who ❤️ documentation, 𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚢𝚝𝚊𝚋𝚕𝚎 ships with a billion pages of tutorials:
vincentarelbundock.github.io/tinytable/
It's an ultra simple, super flexible, and 0-dependency package to draw beautiful tables in HTML, LaTeX, Typst, Word, PDF, and PNG.
And for those who ❤️ documentation, 𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚢𝚝𝚊𝚋𝚕𝚎 ships with a billion pages of tutorials:
vincentarelbundock.github.io/tinytable/
November 21, 2024 at 2:38 PM
𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚢𝚝𝚊𝚋𝚕𝚎 0.6.1 for #Rstats is out!
It's an ultra simple, super flexible, and 0-dependency package to draw beautiful tables in HTML, LaTeX, Typst, Word, PDF, and PNG.
And for those who ❤️ documentation, 𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚢𝚝𝚊𝚋𝚕𝚎 ships with a billion pages of tutorials:
vincentarelbundock.github.io/tinytable/
It's an ultra simple, super flexible, and 0-dependency package to draw beautiful tables in HTML, LaTeX, Typst, Word, PDF, and PNG.
And for those who ❤️ documentation, 𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚢𝚝𝚊𝚋𝚕𝚎 ships with a billion pages of tutorials:
vincentarelbundock.github.io/tinytable/
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New starter pack if you're looking for the #orms community on here: go.bsky.app/SvBND16
Also if you have recommendations of people to add, feel free to send them my way.
Also if you have recommendations of people to add, feel free to send them my way.
November 8, 2024 at 4:38 PM
New starter pack if you're looking for the #orms community on here: go.bsky.app/SvBND16
Also if you have recommendations of people to add, feel free to send them my way.
Also if you have recommendations of people to add, feel free to send them my way.
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I made a Black women in tech starter pack because I couldn’t find one and it annoyed me.
go.bsky.app/5upv7SQ
go.bsky.app/5upv7SQ
November 13, 2024 at 9:25 PM
I made a Black women in tech starter pack because I couldn’t find one and it annoyed me.
go.bsky.app/5upv7SQ
go.bsky.app/5upv7SQ
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Okay made a starter pack for folks into evidence synthesis, systematic review, meta-analysis. I've surely missed people, so please ping with suggestions or self-nominations.
go.bsky.app/JLw77VZ
go.bsky.app/JLw77VZ
November 13, 2024 at 10:23 PM
Okay made a starter pack for folks into evidence synthesis, systematic review, meta-analysis. I've surely missed people, so please ping with suggestions or self-nominations.
go.bsky.app/JLw77VZ
go.bsky.app/JLw77VZ
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I have some refs below that I use as a reviewer, responding to reviewers, and as a stat methods collaborator. This information is not unique, many statisticians have posted similar lists (such as Andrew Althouse discourse.datamethods.org/t/reference-...) but hopefully can still be helpful. 1/n
Reference Collection to push back against "Common Statistical Myths"
Note: This topic is a wiki, meaning that this main body of the topic can be edited by others. Use the Reply button only to post questions or comments about material contained in the body, or to sugge...
discourse.datamethods.org
November 13, 2024 at 1:57 AM
I have some refs below that I use as a reviewer, responding to reviewers, and as a stat methods collaborator. This information is not unique, many statisticians have posted similar lists (such as Andrew Althouse discourse.datamethods.org/t/reference-...) but hopefully can still be helpful. 1/n
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November 11, 2024 at 12:46 AM
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go.bsky.app/3wc2Q3G #BlackMedSky follow us
November 11, 2024 at 1:11 PM
go.bsky.app/3wc2Q3G #BlackMedSky follow us
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We found that almost 40%(!!) of females between 12 and 21 years of age are iron deficient!
And yet there’s no recommended universal screening.
Wonder how different things would be if it predominantly affected males?!
tinyurl.com/JAMAFe
And yet there’s no recommended universal screening.
Wonder how different things would be if it predominantly affected males?!
tinyurl.com/JAMAFe
Prevalence of Iron Deficiency and Iron-Deficiency Anemia in US Females Aged 12-21 Years, 2003-2020
This study examines prevalence of iron deficiency among females aged 12 to 21 years to inform future screening strategies for iron deficiency and iron-deficiency anemia.
tinyurl.com
November 10, 2024 at 12:49 AM
We found that almost 40%(!!) of females between 12 and 21 years of age are iron deficient!
And yet there’s no recommended universal screening.
Wonder how different things would be if it predominantly affected males?!
tinyurl.com/JAMAFe
And yet there’s no recommended universal screening.
Wonder how different things would be if it predominantly affected males?!
tinyurl.com/JAMAFe
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Hello #EpiSky! 👋 We wanted to give everyone a chance to introduce themselves - if you're a fan of #epidemiology, please respond to this thread telling us a little about yourself! Who are you? What are you working on? What is something you're looking forward to?
November 8, 2024 at 5:00 PM
Hello #EpiSky! 👋 We wanted to give everyone a chance to introduce themselves - if you're a fan of #epidemiology, please respond to this thread telling us a little about yourself! Who are you? What are you working on? What is something you're looking forward to?
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A new starter pack
Women commenting on a range of topics relating to health, care and the determinants of health and inequalities.
go.bsky.app/FDUBGFf
Women commenting on a range of topics relating to health, care and the determinants of health and inequalities.
go.bsky.app/FDUBGFf
November 3, 2024 at 7:44 PM
A new starter pack
Women commenting on a range of topics relating to health, care and the determinants of health and inequalities.
go.bsky.app/FDUBGFf
Women commenting on a range of topics relating to health, care and the determinants of health and inequalities.
go.bsky.app/FDUBGFf
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Alright, I started a starter pack of DAG people. Nominate yourself or others to join.
I no longer know who is here, so nominations are important!
go.bsky.app/SAGK5iC
I no longer know who is here, so nominations are important!
go.bsky.app/SAGK5iC
November 5, 2024 at 2:57 PM
Alright, I started a starter pack of DAG people. Nominate yourself or others to join.
I no longer know who is here, so nominations are important!
go.bsky.app/SAGK5iC
I no longer know who is here, so nominations are important!
go.bsky.app/SAGK5iC
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📊When teaching or giving a talk, do you like presenting plots step by step, revealing e.g. one group at a time? This is often useful for walking through complex results.
I made a R package that makes it extremely easy to do this!
ggreveal: Reveal a ggplot incrementally
#rstats #dataviz #ggplot2
I made a R package that makes it extremely easy to do this!
ggreveal: Reveal a ggplot incrementally
#rstats #dataviz #ggplot2
Reveal a ggplot incrementally
Provides functions that make it easy to reveal ggplot2 graphs incrementally. The functions take a ggplot2 object and return a list of plots showing data incrementally by panels, layers, groups, the va...
www.weverthon.com
July 24, 2024 at 5:49 PM
This is one of the best #rstats blog posts I've ever read. I refer back to it often!
With #rstats re-gathering I’m reposting some of my past blog posts, including my most popular one: "Marginalia"
Have you wondered what marginal and conditional effects are? Have you been confused how "marginal" can mean both an integral *and* a slope? Read on for the magic of {marginaleffects}!
Have you wondered what marginal and conditional effects are? Have you been confused how "marginal" can mean both an integral *and* a slope? Read on for the magic of {marginaleffects}!
Marginalia: A guide to figuring out what the heck marginal effects, marginal slopes, average marginal effects, marginal effects at the mean, and all these other marginal things are | Andrew Heiss
Define what marginal effects even are, and then explore the subtle differences between average marginal effects, marginal effects at the mean, and marginal effects at representative values with the ma...
www.andrewheiss.com
October 30, 2024 at 2:07 PM
This is one of the best #rstats blog posts I've ever read. I refer back to it often!