#Causal

Jennifer Mercieca

jenmercieca

Trump has run two argument claims today based entirely on sign arguments (the appearance or presence of thing X is a natural indicator of other thing/event Y).His sign arguments are

Dr. Adele Hite

ahhite

Here it is. The "Why Nutritional Epidemiology of Chronic Disease (henceforth, NECD) Sucks" thread. Let me be very clear: my animadversion has to do specifically with epidemiological studies that purport

Philip Ball

philipcball

Hi @skdh, just saw your letter about free will in @PhysicsWorld. I’m puzzled. You say we should just stop talking about free will because no one knows what it means.

Tomaso Duso

tomaso_duso

#Airbnb presence increases #rents, but not by much: In our new paper (https://bit.ly/2PQ6HVV ) @KDBTran, @maxPschaefer, @ClausMichelsen & I use the introduction of a legislation on short-term rental in #Berlin to

Judea Pearl

yudapearl

1/ I've just (re)discovered a beautiful paper by White and Lu https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1162/REST_a_00153?casa_token=6XwrBL-eqgsAAAAA:FQHJDSIZsiSAfv7OSVmDVNBoji75JenonbbPIE2IVmSu9ybbUozyGLgSwEzqtk6AXY6FAKPuaUkGIt g

Shannon Monnat

smonnat

Here is a preview/summary of my talk today at the @NIH conference on 'Social Determinants of Opioid Use: Establishing a Research Agenda' https://apps1.seiservices.com/SocialDeterminants/Agenda.aspx 1. Our problem is bigger than #opi

JW Mason

JWMason1

The exit polls are a nice example of collider bias, an important and ubiquitous but not very intuitive problem in statistics. Collider bias means this: If a and b both

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NeuroYogacara

I promised a thread on Yogācāra and causation, so here it goes—but it’s neuro-Yogācāra ...There’s a problem lurking in the background, which is going to show up for anyone who

Tom Beer

aTomBeer

On the hazards of using of proxy variables in causal inference – a short tweetorial #EpiTwitter #CausalTwitter Unconfoundedness of the treatment-outcome relationship is necessary for causal effect identification. But in

Infectious Disease Ethics

ID_ethics

The underlying problem not being talked about:There is no simple way of measuring transmissibility of a strain independent of environmental factors (winter) and social factors (degree of interaction)Both R and

nsram

nsram

[1 / N]This suit, filed today by a technical expert on Dominion systems, analyzes results in Michigan counties. I will link to PDF at the end of thread. This is

Noah Haber

NoahHaber

Getting close to finally writing this paper:1) The obs/RCT dichotomy is false and harmful2) RCTs are obs studies w/ VERY plausible exogenous variation in X3) All practical CI studies (RCTs

Women in Statistics and Data Science

WomenInStat

Epidemiologists have a lot of words that start with "C": Causal (inference). Cohort. Collider. Collinearity. Counterfactual. Case-Control. However, a very important word that requires a lot thought in study design

Jason Furman

jasonfurman

A story about the unpopularity of one-time checks in 2008 and their replacement with reduced withholding in Making Work Pay in 2009 and 2010.Now checks are popular.I don't think this

Ricky

ideasByRicky

Course: Watched week 3 in Intro to Causality from @CasualBrady. It feels like this week was laying down the foundations of the shared language of causality. Specifically graphs- connected nodes

Dr Ellie Murray

EpiEllie

Are you still shaking off the holiday? I know I am! How about a #cartooncausalinference #tweetorial about casual graphs to ease us into the new year? #epitwitter #DAGsfordocs #FOAMed #MedEd

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