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I’ve been exposed to a record number of papers making basic errors with hypothesis tests. On my bike ride to work I started …
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Whenever someone asks me for advice and they tell me their research question is an association, I launch into some form of the …
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First, I want to strongly state that my goal here is not to demean the authors here in any way whatsoever. If there were some way to …
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I spend a lot time thinking about how much an applied epidemiologist should know about methods or statistics. I clearly don’t …
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I’ve been calling myself a causal inference Luddite recently and it only just occurred to me now to look up what it means. …
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This summer here at Erasmus MC, we’ve had what I’ve called, through lack of imagination, “Causal Inference …
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I was daydreaming the other day and was thinking about what would be in an ideal, observational study with a causal goal. I’ll …
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I’m a methodologist and I spend all day thinking about causal inference and epidemiologic methods. It would we weird if I …
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I sometimes hear people complain about having to prespecify an analysis because they feel locked into it. People will say it limits …
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