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PLEASE SHARE: Registration is now open for the next Introduction to Causal Inference Course for Health & Social Scientists (7-11 July 2025, Leeds, UK).

See more info & register here: www.causal.training

Note, we are not planning any other courses until 2027.

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New paper from Shaun Seaman and me on how to simulate data from marginal structural models (MSMs) for survival outcomes, including Cox MSMs. This can be useful in simulation studies evaluating causal inference methods that use MSMs. R code provided. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Might be a good time to read up on the history of science & how it's fundamentally a social process (as it is carried out by humans) & how it's deeply intertwined with power relations. Decades of literature! Will be super helpful when having (yet another) debate about science and politics! 🧪⚕️🛟

journals.lww.com/epidem/fullt...
#causalsky #causalinference #episky

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

So many new followers!

To help me get to know you and learn what content you’d like to see, let’s do an AMA.

What epi, stats, data science, public health, etc questions have you always wanted answered?

Dr. Schooling is at #SER2024 talking about making survival bias explicit in our DAGs, selection diagrams, and in our wording. @epiresearch.bsky.social

NEW SHORT OPINION PAPER (<2 pages) on when to adjust for multiple testing (if one does testing at all), just appeared in BMJ Medicine, with Sabine Hoffmann:

"To adjust or not to adjust: It is not the tests you perform that count, but how you report them"

bmjmedicine.bmj.com/content/3/1/...

🔥 Exciting news about my book #CausalAnalysis! A free online version is now available, many thanks to MIT press for making this possible! Here's the link to the open access version: mitpress.ublish.com/ebook/causal...

**NOW PUBLISHED - with @gscollins.bsky.social **

"Stability of clinical prediction models developed using statistical or machine learning methods"

You develop a fancy new model ... but have you checked instability of individual predictions?

You should!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... 1/3

Hey EpiSky - what are the best resources you know discussing multilevel approaches in causal inference using observational data?

I'm particularly interested in discussion of g-methods (time-varying confounding) and multilevel modelling.

SOCIETY FOR PEDIATRIC AND PERINATAL EPIDEMIOLOGIC RESEARCH (SPER) VIRTUAL MEETING
(Free and Open to All)
April 16, 2024
ABSTRACT SUBMISSION
Deadline: January 8, 2024
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People in other fields-
Do you have examples of "now I disagree w my old paper" works in your field? What makes these successful?

#episky #science

Currently dissertating? Consider applying for the SER Student Dissertation Workshop held at the Annual Meeting in June. This is an incredible opportunity to get faculty input and meet fellow students. Applications close February 5, 2024. epiresearch.org/annual-meeti...

SoDa tutorial on Geoflow, a newly created tool designed to visualize international flows in an interactive way:
odissei-soda.nl/tutorials/po...

👋🏻 #Epidemiology #GeriatricOncology

I'm the lead Guest Editor of a special issue on "#Cancer Epidemiology in the Oldest Old" in Cancer Epidemiology.

with @FCanoui, @mexicolindo & Esther Bastiaannet

www.sciencedirect.com/journal/canc...

@YoungSIOG @siognah @SIOGorg