Jeremy Labrecque
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The methodological expertise of a randomly-sampled, applied epidemiologist
I spend a lot time thinking about how much an applied epidemiologist should know about methods or statistics. I clearly don’t …
Apr 11, 2023
3 min read
Message from a causal inference Luddite
I’ve been calling myself a causal inference Luddite recently and it only just occurred to me now to look up what it means. …
Mar 9, 2023
2 min read
Want to join causal club?
This summer here at Erasmus MC, we’ve had what I’ve called, through lack of imagination, “Causal Inference …
Aug 9, 2022
1 min read
The characteristics of an ideal causal paper
I was daydreaming the other day and was thinking about what would be in an ideal, observational study with a causal goal. I’ll …
Jul 6, 2022
3 min read
Epidemiology jail
I’m a methodologist and I spend all day thinking about causal inference and epidemiologic methods. It would we weird if I …
Jun 30, 2022
4 min read
Prespecifying an analysis plan
I sometimes hear people complain about having to prespecify an analysis because they feel locked into it. People will say it limits …
May 10, 2022
1 min read
How categorizing variables can induce interactions where there are none
I saw a talk where the speaker found that a continuous biomarker was not related to the outcome but if you interacted it with disease …
Oct 10, 2021
2 min read
How to value research
A lot of people are upset about some research communities shunning quantitative measures of research output such as H-indexes or impact …
Jul 26, 2021
3 min read
The tale of triangulation and the car mechanic
For the past like 15 years I’ve been listening to the radio show Car Talk. Even now that it’s only reruns, I listen every …
Jun 16, 2021
2 min read
Decisions and inequalities
I have two ideas I’ve been thinking a lot about recently which I have trouble reconciling. First, I’ve come to think that …
Apr 28, 2021
2 min read
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