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Clinical Epi & Biostatistics Unit (CEBU)
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We provide high-level #biostatistics expertise and training to child health researchers at Murdoch Children's Research Institute & University of Melbourne & conduct methodological research @vicbiostat.bsky.social
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Awarded every two years by Australian Academy of Science,
the Moran Medal honours outstanding Australian scientists in statistics & related fields. Huge congratulations to our Co-Director @margaritamb.bsky.social on this well-deserved recognition! 🎉🥳 #WomenInSTEM #ResearchExcellence
A few weeks ago I went to Canberra to receive the Moran Medal at the lovely Shine Dome of the Australian Academy of Science (@science.org.au). It was a huge honour, and wonderful to hear talks from all corners of science and to learn about the Academy's great work supporting science
- pics below!
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Strengthen your research skills in observational studies!

📅 27–31 Oct 2025 | 💻 Online via Zoom
Reduced rates available for selected participants- more details and registration👇
🔗 www.mcri.edu.au/research/res...
Observational Studies: Modern concepts & analytic methods - Murdoch Children's Research Institute
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August 28, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Awarded every two years by Australian Academy of Science,
the Moran Medal honours outstanding Australian scientists in statistics & related fields. Huge congratulations to our Co-Director @margaritamb.bsky.social on this well-deserved recognition! 🎉🥳 #WomenInSTEM #ResearchExcellence
A few weeks ago I went to Canberra to receive the Moran Medal at the lovely Shine Dome of the Australian Academy of Science (@science.org.au). It was a huge honour, and wonderful to hear talks from all corners of science and to learn about the Academy's great work supporting science
- pics below!
October 8, 2025 at 4:04 AM
A must-read piece led by @margaritamb.bsky.social with John Carlin and @rush-099.bsky.social (now in press in Epidemiology)

#EpiSky #CausalSky #CausalInference #OpenScience✨
September 10, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Strengthen your research skills in observational studies!

📅 27–31 Oct 2025 | 💻 Online via Zoom
Reduced rates available for selected participants- more details and registration👇
🔗 www.mcri.edu.au/research/res...
Observational Studies: Modern concepts & analytic methods - Murdoch Children's Research Institute
www.mcri.edu.au
August 28, 2025 at 3:32 AM
🚨 Our popular two-part #Stata course is coming up soon — running virtually on Oct 14 & 15! Register via:
📊 Stata 1: mcri.edu.au/research/res...
📈 Stata 2: mcri.edu.au/research/res...
👉 Registrations close two weeks prior!
📝Self-study option aviable for MCRI staff- email us for details!
Stata 1: Introduction to Stata: Managing Your Data - Murdoch Children's Research Institute
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August 28, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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Master REDCap for your research! 💻 MCRI’s REDCap I course covers all the essentials for managing study data. Next offering: Sept 2 online via Zoom. Register: mcri.edu.au/research/res... #REDCap #ResearchSkills
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REDCap 1: Introduction to REDCap - Murdoch Children's Research Institute
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August 15, 2025 at 5:40 AM
📢 Australian Trials Methodology Conference 2025
🗓 20 Nov | 📍Melbourne & Online via Zoom
Join leading speakers from academia, industry & healthcare.
🎟 Early-bird rates until 26 Sep!
🔗Register: atmc25.com
#ClinicalTrials #TrialMethodology #Biostatistics
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August 25, 2025 at 5:18 AM
📊 Boost your research skills with MCRI’s Intro to Biostatistics! Learn study design, data analysis & result interpretation. 🗓️ Sept 8–12 🕘9AM-12.30 PM| 💻 Online via Zoom. Register: mcri.edu.au/researcher-t...
#Biostatistics #Research
Introduction to Biostatistics - Murdoch Children's Research Institute
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August 15, 2025 at 5:41 AM
Master REDCap for your research! 💻 MCRI’s REDCap I course covers all the essentials for managing study data. Next offering: Sept 2 online via Zoom. Register: mcri.edu.au/research/res... #REDCap #ResearchSkills
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REDCap 1: Introduction to REDCap - Murdoch Children's Research Institute
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August 15, 2025 at 5:40 AM
📢 Now open for registration: Designing Your Research Study (13–14 Aug 2025).
This CEBU online course covers question development, study design, analysis planning, and more.
Details & registration:
🔗 tinyurl.com/ekpajf3a
Discounted rates available (internal, student & LMIC participants) #episky
Designing Your Research Study - Murdoch Children's Research Institute
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July 10, 2025 at 5:06 AM
🚨New method! So proud to see work led by @cttc101.bsky.social w/ @margaritamb.bsky.social @ghazalehd.bsky.social now available as an R package 📦
A powerful tool for estimating intervention effects via multiple mediators w/real examples to guide you!
Check it out ⬇️
#epitwitter #causaltwitter #rstats
1/ NEW R PACKAGE! For estimating the impact of potential interventions on multiple mediators in countering exposure effects (led by @cttc101.bsky.social)

- Paper👉 tinyurl.com/ye26jsps
- Package👉 tinyurl.com/yuh4kens

Thread shows published examples of how the method can be used! #EpiSky #CausalSky
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July 10, 2025 at 4:14 AM
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📣 📣NEW PAPER providing guidance on best practice for using multiple imputation when estimating interventional mediation effects, considering missingness mechanism, multiple imputation model specification, & variance estimation
#CausalSky #EpiSky

Read more 👇🏽
journals.lww.com/epidem/abstr...
Handling multivariable missing data in causal mediation... : Epidemiology
miologic studies. However, guidance is lacking on best practice for using multiple imputation when estimating interventional mediation effects, specifically regarding the role of missingness mechanism...
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April 2, 2025 at 6:39 AM
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Over the moon to have received the Moran Medal from the Australian Academy of Science!🥳

Amazing recognition, hopefully highlighting the key role of biostats & causal inference in high-quality research vimeo.com/1065735362
tinyurl.com/2m3dx2ms
@cebu-melbourne.bsky.social @vicbiostat.bsky.social
Professor Margarita Moreno-Betancur - Moran Medal 2025
This is "Professor Margarita Moreno-Betancur - Moran Medal 2025" by Australian Academy of Science on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people…
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April 8, 2025 at 5:05 AM
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Thrilled to share our new preprint on causal ML for mediation analysis! We introduce causal ML estimators for interventional effects explicitly mapped to target trials assessing hypothetical interventions inducing distinct shifts in joint mediator distributions📊 📈🧪
#CausalSky #EpiSky
link 📈🤖
Causal machine learning for high-dimensional mediation analysis using interventional effects mapped to a target trial (Chen, Vansteelandt, Burgner et al) Causal mediation analysis examines causal pathways linking exposures to disease. The estimation of interventional effects, which are me
April 24, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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Recording of my talk @causalab.bsky.social on using m-DAGs to guide the treatment of missing data now available 👇 #EpiSky #CausalSky
Check out the last Methods Series talk now on YouTube:
youtu.be/QuQnZ4don54?...
2 weeks away!

@margaritamb.bsky.social (Murdoch Children's Research Institute, University of Melbourne) continues the 2025 Methods Series @ki.se.

📆 April 22, 2025
⏰ 13.00 CEST/7.00 ET
📍 All Methods Series talks virtual

Register now 👇
stats.sender.net/forms/e7JD1d...
#publichealth #causalinference
April 23, 2025 at 6:48 AM
🚨 A MUST-READ by John Carlin and @margaritamb.bsky.social including 6 commentaries and rejoinder

NOW PUBLISHED:
“On the Uses and Abuses of Regression Models: A Call for Reform of Statistical Practice and Teaching”
July 2, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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📢 New Commentary: We discuss how analytic choices impact interpretation of studies on socioeconomic health inequities. We review 1) descriptive analogues of causal estimands (à la Young et al) with competing events; 2) timescale choice; and 3) covariate adjustment.
👉 academic.oup.com/aje/advance-...
Invited commentary: Descriptive social epidemiology: putting the question before the methods
Abstract. In studies describing socioeconomic inequities in health outcomes, the choice of estimand and the planned analytic approach are central to the in
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May 1, 2025 at 11:09 PM
📊 Observational Studies: Modern Concepts & Analytic Methods
✍️This course provides a comprehensive introduction to key concepts for observational studies in clinical and health research
📅 Next online iteration: 19–23 May from 9 AM-1PM each day
🔗https://shorturl.at/CYDUB
April 24, 2025 at 1:30 AM
🚨 Our popular two-part #Stata course is back — running virtually on May 6 & 7!
📊 Stata 1: mcri.edu.au/research/res...
📈 Stata 2: mcri.edu.au/research/res...
👉 Visit the links to register for a spot!
Stata 1 - Online and Classroom Mode - Murdoch Children's Research Institute
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April 24, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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Looking to advance your #REDCap skills?🖥️

Registrations are now open for the "REDCap II: Beyond the Basics" half day online course run by us, scheduled to be held on the 29th of April:
www.mcri.edu.au/research/res...
REDCap II - Murdoch Children's Research Institute
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April 10, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Looking to advance your #REDCap skills?🖥️

Registrations are now open for the "REDCap II: Beyond the Basics" half day online course run by us, scheduled to be held on the 29th of April:
www.mcri.edu.au/research/res...
REDCap II - Murdoch Children's Research Institute
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April 10, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Huge congratulations to our incredible Co-Director on this well-deserved recognition! 🏅🎉
April 10, 2025 at 4:04 AM
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Congratulations to Margarita on this prestigious award! 🏅

The Moran Medal is awarded every 2 years to an outstanding emerging leader in statistical science. This recognises Margarita's outstanding scientific leadership in the fields of causal inference and missing data.

More details in the 📼 below
April 9, 2025 at 7:19 AM
🎉 Our VERY FIRST newsletter is here! 📬Use the link to access it and learn more about our group and the work/activities we do: shorturl.at/bzmio
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March 12, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Our next Introduction to Biostatistics course will take place over 5 half days 9am -12.30pm on 24-28 March 2025 at @MCRI_for_kids. Read more and register here: www.mcri.edu.au/research/res... Reduced rates available for internal and LMIC participants, reach out: cebu.admin@mcri.edu.au
Introduction to Biostatistics - Murdoch Children's Research Institute
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March 12, 2025 at 4:15 AM