Craig Pickett
craigwpickett.bsky.social
Craig Pickett
@craigwpickett.bsky.social
Epidemiologist @CancerVic Teaching Epi, Regression Modelling/Survival @unimelbMSPGH M.Epi PhD Ex Sci Fmr.Olympic S&C Coach: Summer & Winter Games
Reposted by Craig Pickett
This week! Prof Ian Marschner from the NHMRC Clinical Trials Centre will be presenting the @vicbiostat.bsky.social seminar on Confidence distributions.

All welcome online or in person.

Friday 21 November 9:30am AEDT, Monash SPHPM.

www.vicbiostat.org.au/event/confid...
Confidence distributions: new tools to design, adapt and analyse clinical trials
Confidence distributions provide a holistic s
www.vicbiostat.org.au
November 16, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Reposted by Craig Pickett
Yongxi Long and colleagues have written an excellent post about when and when not to worry about the proportional odds assumption: discourse.datamethods.org/t/when-and-w... #StatsSky #EpiSky #Statistics #RStats
When and why (not) to worry about the PO assumption
Aim We wrote an article (Long, Wiegers, Jacobs, Steyerberg, & Van Zwet, 2025) about the proportional odds (PO) assumption in the analysis of ordinal outcomes. we use various examples from neurological...
discourse.datamethods.org
October 7, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Reposted by Craig Pickett
Look what you can find in the latest version of JASP:

**esci**

That's right, all your favorite estimation-focused analyses, strong hypothesis testing, and meta-analysis are available in the esci module for JASP 0.95.

#stats #metascience
Many thanks to the good people at @jaspstats.bsky.social
July 29, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Reposted by Craig Pickett
Statistical Decision Theory: Using a 1940s Idea to Fix a Problem in 21st Century AI

#CHANCE @amstatnews.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
July 18, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Reposted by Craig Pickett
NOW PUBLISHED! Featured article + 6 Commentaries + Rejoinder: “On the Uses and Abuses of Regression Models: A Call for Reform of Statistical Practice and Teaching” with my colleague John Carlin
tinyurl.com/2z2tmkhh
@cebu-melbourne.bsky.social @vicbiostat.bsky.social #EpiSky #CausalSky #StatsSky
Rejoinder to Commentaries on: On the Uses and Abuses of Regression Models: A Call for Reform of Statistical Practice and Teaching
Click on the article title to read more.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
July 2, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Reposted by Craig Pickett
Great to see this work by John Carlin & @margaritamb.bsky.social on the uses and abuses of regression models finally published. @vicbiostat.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1002/sim....
Rejoinder to Commentaries on: On the Uses and Abuses of Regression Models: A Call for Reform of Statistical Practice and Teaching
Click on the article title to read more.
doi.org
June 26, 2025 at 6:29 AM
Reposted by Craig Pickett
"If you never use another p-value, you will have improved medicine.”
-me, to clinicians
December 2, 2024 at 3:45 PM
Reposted by Craig Pickett
Join us Wed 14 May as our biostatisticians @drkarenlamb.bsky.social & Phoebe Fitzpatrick address p-value misconceptions, explain the interpretation of p-values & confidence intervals & emphasise the importance of clinical significance in health research.

Register ➡️ ow.ly/yB4W50VAzoo #EMCR
April 17, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Reposted by Craig Pickett
Looking forward to speaking at the CAUSALab methods seminar series next week! 👇
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 15, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Reposted by Craig Pickett
"I understand the struggles of renters. I talk to them regularly when I raise their rents." said Hamer.

Full article here: chaser.com.au/national/ame...
April 7, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Reposted by Craig Pickett
International students are perhaps the most unfairly attacked demographic in all of Australia. We invite them here. The reason they come is to get an education. Most are incredibly nice people who benefit our country in all sorts of ways. They massively cross-subsidise domestic students.
Utterly moronic decision-making by BOTH duopoly parties - sacrificing the hugely important education sector when it should be thriving, all because they’re incapable of tough decisions on real estate investment rorts.
Cutting students is not the solution to housing.

amp.abc.net.au/article/1051...
Coalition pledges to limit new international student enrolments to 240,000 per year - ABC News
amp.abc.net.au
April 6, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Reposted by Craig Pickett
Join us for our Methods Seminar with A/Prof Melissa Russell on Quantitative Bias Analysis!

She'll walk through a practical example of correcting misclassification bias - perfect for epi researchers at any level!

May 2
12:00-13:00 AEST
Register: go.unimelb.edu.au/cq6p

Free for AEA members!
An introduction to Quantitative Bias Analysis
AEA Methods Seminar #3 for 2025! In this presentation, Melissa will introduce quantitative bias analysis (QBA) and discuss its application.
go.unimelb.edu.au
March 23, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Congrats @julieasimpson50.bsky.social & @margaritamb.bsky.social Looking forward to more great causal inference output!
Exciting Monday news with two of our brilliant researchers awarded NHMRC Investigator Grants 🎊

Congratulations Margarita Moreno-Betancur @margaritamb.bsky.social and Julie Simpson @julieasimpson50.bsky.social

More:
www.vicbiostat.org.au/news

@mischhub.bsky.social @cebu-melbourne.bsky.social
News
www.vicbiostat.org.au
February 24, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Reposted by Craig Pickett
I’m George Takei and I approve of this message.
February 19, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Reposted by Craig Pickett
Hot off the press! 📣📣In this tutorial we illustrate available multiple imputation approaches for handling longitudinal data including when they are clustered within higher level clusters. A reproducible example with R and Stata code provided! #OpenAccess

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Multiple Imputation for Longitudinal Data: A Tutorial
Longitudinal studies are frequently used in medical research and involve collecting repeated measures on individuals over time. Observations from the same individual are invariably correlated and thu....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
January 27, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Reposted by Craig Pickett
NEW PAPER! "Causal inference in multi-cohort studies using the target trial framework to identify and minimize sources of bias" led by Marnie Downes

Check it out 👇
academic.oup.com/aje/advance-...

#EpiSky #CausalSky
Causal inference in multi-cohort studies using the target trial framework to identify and minimize sources of bias
Abstract. Longitudinal cohort studies, which follow a group of individuals over time, provide the opportunity to examine causal effects of complex exposure
academic.oup.com
December 4, 2024 at 5:12 AM
Reposted by Craig Pickett
Registration is now open for VicBiostat 2025 Summer School!
10-14 Feb:

- Advanced causal inference
- Modern missing data methods
- SMARTs design & analysis

All courses run hybrid in person at
@Monash_SPHPM
& online via Zoom:
www.vicbiostat.org.au/short-courses

#episky #causalinference #stats
Short Courses
www.vicbiostat.org.au
November 21, 2024 at 4:18 AM
Reposted by Craig Pickett
My first post on BlueSky has to be about decision curve analysis, right? We created a website to make it very easy for everyone. Code, tutorials, references can all be found at www.decisioncurveanalysis.org
DCA: Homepage
If you can’t find an answer to a question in one of the other tabs, click on the “Discussions” tab, which will navigate you to the GitHub discussions forum for all Q&A. If you post a question, someone from our team will get back to you.
Www.decisioncurveanalysis.org
November 14, 2024 at 4:23 PM
Me…..at our next Research Group collaboration meeting…..
September 12, 2024 at 4:49 AM