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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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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 …
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A lot of people are upset about some research communities shunning quantitative measures of research output such as H-indexes or impact …
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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 …
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I have two ideas I’ve been thinking a lot about recently which I have trouble reconciling. First, I’ve come to think that …
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