#Causal

George Yarrow

george_yarrow

Assessing the effects of regulations is a tricky business & there was a time when the Cabinet Office produced some rather sophisticated guidance manuals on how to go about it.

Adam Ballah

ehballah

One pernicious impact likely to result from government treating citizens as customers is the erosion of understanding of what taxes do, and consequently the willingness of citizens to support, through

Victor Chernozhukov

VC31415

I’ve been reading some neo-classical econometrics papers from 80-90s. Hansen-Singleton (Econometrica)And Berry-Levinnshon-Pakes (Econometrica). They start out with stochastic economic models (to define structures/ Causal models). 1/n They

🔥 Kareem Carr 🔥

kareem_carr

It's becoming increasingly concerning to me that people are staking out philosophical and mathematical positions (for political reasons) that are increasingly incompatible with a healthy public discourse on data.https://twitter.com/seer

Anthony Costello

globalhlthtwit

Scientific models vary according to the assumptions made. Compare here the projections for Covid19 deaths under four different epidemiological models (Imperial, LSHTM, Warwick, and Public Health England/Cambridge) and the dynamic

Dr Ellie Murray

EpiEllie

I want to talk about an important new study on racial disparities in infant survival, from @RRHDr & colleagues.The tl;dr: Black infants in the US are less likely to die

Andreas Backhaus

AndreasShrugged

There's a new paper by John Ioannidis and co-authors that's intended to push their anti-lockdown message by performing a flimsy empirical analysis. Adding to @GidMK's thread, I will just highlight

Tage Rai

tage_rai

Some thoughts, as this has caused me to introspect on my own process-1) "Both editors judged that the manuscript warranted extended review."Put everything else aside. Its a correlation and a

Juan Sebastian Lozano

Juan_Lozano__

My sense as an outsider is that political psychology is inextricably influenced by The Authoritarian Personality, even though most people in the field regard this work somewhere between deeply flawed

Katalin Susztak

KSusztak

Kidney disease genetic risk variants alter lysosomal beta-mannosidase (MANBA) expression and disease severity https://stm.sciencemag.org/content/13/576/eaaz1458 The study is lead by @Xiangchen_Gu @XinSheng7 and Holly Yang. Kidney function G

Michael Honigberg, MD, MPP

mchonig

Excited to share our work now in @CircAHA Epi associations between hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (HDP, e.g., preeclampsia) and cardiometabolic risk factors are well-described, but are these relationships causal?https://www.ahajournals

Terry Bouton

TerryBoutonHist

And it wasn’t just the white nationalists, Second Amendment radicals, and QAnon boneheads. I can’t adequately describe the blood lust we heard everywhere as we walked over the Capitol grounds,

Sanjay Srivastava

hardsci

I've seen lots of discussion about the causal inference and interpretations in that mentorship paper, so can I just tack on that the construct validity sucks too? "Mentorship quality" =

Dr Ellie Murray

EpiEllie

This past semester I taught two courses: an advanced (causal inference) methods course, and an outbreak investigation course.I’d like to share some thoughts on teaching during a pandemic. 1. The

Daniel Kuehn

D_Kuehn

Been seeing this meme a lot lately so I made one. @jcbecker93 I love this meme but every time I see it I think “what jackass took that picture?” People

Yardley Yeadon

MichaelYeadon3

https://www.bmj.com/content/365/bmj.l2268/rr-0Please read & ask yourself are you content with a system intended to detect new ‘unwanted effects of a vaccine’ explicitly excludes these? Not my opinion, but of a medical

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