Carly Brantner is an assistant professor of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics at Duke University and Duke Clinical Research Institute.
Resources from this episode:In this episode Lucy and Ellie dig into a recently publicized paper, "Vaccination and Neurodevelopmental Disorders: A Study of Nine-Year-Old Children Enrolled in Medicaid", which has gained attention after being promoted by RFK Jr. as evidence that vaccines cause autism.
Ellie breaks down her Substack critique of the study. Together, she and Lucy discuss the methodological flaws and what a better version of this study might look like.
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Noah Greifer is a statistical consultant and programmer at Harvard University.
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Lucy and Ellie chat about large language models, chat interfaces, and causal inference.
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Lucy chats with Len Testa about a recent analysis he did which combined over 150 publicly available data sources to answer a question about the affordability of Disney World.
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Alyssa Bilinski, Peterson Family Assistant Professor of Health Policy, and Assistant Professor of Biostatistics, at Brown University School of Public Health. Her research focuses on developing novel methods for policy evaluation and applying these to identify interventions that most efficiently improve population health and well-being.
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PNAS paper: https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2302528120
Shuo Feng's pre-print: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.04.08.24305335v1
Our uncertainty paper: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33475686/
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Edward Kennedy Associate Professor, Department of Statistics & Data Science, Carnegie Mellon.
Evaluating a Targeted Minimum Loss-Based Estimator for Capture-Recapture Analysis: An Application to HIV Surveillance in San Francisco, California: https://academic.oup.com/aje/article/193/4/673/7425624
Doubly Robust Capture-Recapture Methods for Estimating Population Size: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01621459.2023.2187814
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Sheree Bekker & Stephen Mumford are Co-directors of the Feminist Sport Lab and have a book coming soon: "Open Play: the case for feminist sport", coming Spring 2025. Reaktion Books (UK), University of Chicago Press (US).
Sheree Bekker: Associate Professor, University of Bath, Department for Health,
Stephen Mumford, Professor of Metaphysics, Durham University A
Feminist Sport Lab: https://www.feministsportlab.com
Causation: A Very Short Introduction by Stephen Mumford & Rani Lill Anjum: https://academic.oup.com/book/616
Faye Norby, Iditarod champion & epidemiologist: https://www.kfyrtv.com/2024/03/28/faye-norby-finishes-iditarod-trail-womens-foot-champion/?outputType=amp
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