NEW PAPER! (in press in EPIDEMIOLOGY)
Have you wondered:
- How to specify a target trial: as an ideal trial or something else?
- What biases do target trial emulations and actual RCTs share?
- How does it all relate to potential outcomes?
Read here! š arxiv.org/abs/2405.10026
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NEW PAPER!!! "Causal Machine Learning Methods and Use of CrossāFitting in Settings With HighāDimensional Confounding"
led by Susie Ellul, with Stijn Vansteelandt & John Carlin
Published in Stats in Med
Check it out š
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
#EpiSky #CausalSky
Mark your diaries! The ViCBiostat Summer School returns from 13-20 Feb 2026, in Melbourne and online.
Courses include causal inference, cluster randomised trials, meta-analysis and the estimand framework.
Further details TBA shortly - sign up to our mailing list at www.vicbiostat.org.au
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Observational epidemiological studies commonly seek to estimate the causal effect of an exposure on an outcome. Adjustment for potential confounding bias in modern studies is challenging due to the p...
Too many meta-analyses have findings equivalent to: āIf you average the cost of a loaf of bread, car insurance for a year and a movie ticket, you get $752.36ā
Margarita Moreno-Betancur
Margarita Moreno-Betancur
Thank you so much Craig! š
Build your skills in observational studies & causal inference with our revamped course, Observational Studies: Modern Concepts & Analytic Methods- now including modern estimation methods (g-computation, IPW).
š 18ā22 May 2026 | š» Online via Zoom
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tinyurl.com/4bebv8n2
My own TLDR for the message from this paper:
statsepi.substack.com/p/sorry-what...
#ViCBiostat Summer School 13-20 Feb 2026
#Causal inference
#Estimands in trials
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Advanced #meta-analysis
In Melbs and online.
More details to come.
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Awarded every two years by Australian Academy of Science,
the Moran Medal honours outstanding Australian scientists in statistics & related fields. Huge congratulations to our Co-Director @margaritamb.bsky.social on this well-deserved recognition! šš„³ #WomenInSTEM #ResearchExcellence
Andrew Vickers
Causal inference is the goal of randomized trials and many observational studies. The first step in a formal causal inference framework is to define the causal estimand, and in both types of study thi...
