Casual Inference

Casual Inference

Lucy D'Agostino McGowan and Ellie Murray

Episodes 68
Avg. Duration 57m
Activity Dormant
Since Nov 2019
Latest Episode Jun 2025

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Every 2 Weeks
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Keep it casual with the Casual Inference podcast. Your hosts Lucy D'Agostino McGowan and Ellie Murray talk all things epidemiology, statistics, data science, causal inference, and public health. Sponsored by the American Journal of Epidemiology.

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Optimizing Data Workflows with Emily Riederer | Season 6 Episode 8

Jun 26, 2025 52m

Emily Riederer is a Data Science Senior Manager at Credit Risk Modeling Capital One. Her website can be found here: https://www.emilyriederer.com/   Follow along on Bluesky: Emily:…

Combining Data & Making Effects Generalizable with Carly Brantner | Season 6 Episode 7

Jun 17, 2025 52m

Carly Brantner is an assistant professor of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics at Duke University and Duke Clinical Research Institute. Resources from this episode: multicate: R package for…

The Art of Clarity with Andrew Heiss | Season 6 Episode 6

May 29, 2025 49m

Andrew Heiss is an assistant professor in the Department of Public Management and Policy at the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University. Vincent's "What is your estimand"…

Study Critique: What Went Wrong and How We'd Do It Differently | Season 6 Episode 5

May 08, 2025 55m

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…

From Model to Meaning with Vincent Arel-Bundock | Season 6 Episode 4

Apr 24, 2025 45m

Vincent Arel-Bundock is a professor at the Université de Montréal, where he studies comparative and international political economy. Vincent's website: https://arelbundock.com/ Vincent's book…

Propensity Scores, R Packages, and Practical Advice with Noah Greifer | Season 6 Episode 3

Apr 10, 2025 1h 22m

Noah Greifer is a statistical consultant and programmer at Harvard University. Episode notes: WeightIt package: https://ngreifer.github.io/WeightIt/ MatchIt package: …

Causal Assumptions and Large Language Models | Season 6 Episode 2

Mar 27, 2025 51m

Lucy and Ellie chat about large language models, chat interfaces, and causal inference. Do LLMs Act as Repositories of Causal Knowledge?: https://arxiv.org/html/2412.10635v1 Follow along on…

Data Integration for Impact with Len Testa | Season 6 Episode 1

Feb 28, 2025 44m

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. Len's Deep Dive Post on…

Starting the Conversation on Models with Alyssa Bilinski | Season 5 Episode 11

Jul 10, 2024 48m

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…

Flexible methods with Edward Kennedy | Season 5 Episode 10

Jun 26, 2024 38m

Edward Kennedy Associate Professor, Department of Statistics & Data Science, Carnegie Mellon. ehkennedy.com Evaluating a Targeted Minimum Loss-Based Estimator for Capture-Recapture Analysis:…

What Sports and Feminism can tell us about Causal Inference with Sheree Bekker & Stephen Mumford | Season 5 Episode 9

Jun 12, 2024 49m

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),…

Observational Causal Analyses with Erick Scott | Season 5 Episode 8

May 29, 2024 51m

Erick Scott is founder of cStructure, a causal science startup. Erick has expertise in medicine, public health, and computational biology. [email protected] "A causal roadmap for generating…

Friends Let Friends Do Mediation Analysis with Nima Hejazi | Season 5 Episode 7

May 16, 2024 59m

Nima Hejazi is an assistant professor in biostatistics at Harvard University. His methodological work often draws upon tools and ideas from semi- and non-parametric inference, high-dimensional and…

Fun and Game(s) Theory with Aaditya Ramdas | Season 5 Episode 6

May 01, 2024 48m

Aaditya Ramdas is an assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon University, in the Departments of Statistics and Machine Learning. His research interests include game-theoretic statistics and sequential…

Cookies, Causal Inference, and Careers with Ingrid Giesinger #Epicookiechallenge | Season 5 Episode 5

Apr 17, 2024 46m

Ingrid is a doctoral student in Epidemiology at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto.  Winning cookie recipe Follow along on Twitter: The American Journal of…

Analyzing the Analysts: Reproducibility with Nick Huntington-Klein | Season 5 Episode 4

Apr 03, 2024 45m

Nick Huntington-Klein is an Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Albers School of Business and Economics, Seattle University. His research focus is econometrics, causal inference, and higher…

Immortal Time Bias | Season 5 Episode 3

Mar 20, 2024 34m

Lucy and Ellie chat about immortal time bias, discussing a new paper Ellie co-authored on clone-censor-weights.  The Clone-Censor-Weight Method in Pharmacoepidemiologic Research: Foundations and…

Targeted Learning with Mar van der Laan | Season 5 Episode 2

Mar 06, 2024 51m

Mark van der Laan is a professor of statistics at the University of California, Berkeley. His research focuses on developing statistical methods to estimate causal and non-causal parameters of…

Pros and Cons of Randomized Controlled Trials | Season 5 Episode 1

Feb 21, 2024 17m

Ellie and Lucy kick off the season and introduce our new executive buzzer, Melita! Melita is a masters student in statistics at Wake Forest University and will be helping out with the podcast (and…

Remembering Ralph B. D'Agostino, Sr.

Oct 02, 2023 49m

We are re-releasing an episode from 2021 in remembrance of Ralph D'Agostino, Sr.  Ellie Murray and Lucy D'Agostino McGowan chat with Ralph D'Agostino Sr. and Ralph D'Agostino Jr. about their careers…

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