Remembering my dad. An account of personal experience and scientific evidence on the link between #depression and #dementia Joining the dots with Gill Livingston & Craig Ritchie contributing to this piece by @RowanAntheain for the The Telegraph 👇🙍🙍‍♂️🙍‍♀️👋telegraph.co.uk/health-fitness…

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Students sometimes ask 'should I do a regression or calculate a correlation?'

This is a useful explanation about why it's the same thing: lindeloev.github.io/tests-as-linea…

(originally via Sam Abbott (@[email protected]))

Reporting the within-arm change as your primary endpoint in a randomized clinical trial instead of the between group difference is like buying a can opener and then using a knife to open your black beans. while staring at the can opener, next to the knife, in the same drawer.

In his #CIIG talk, David Lagnado argues that causal reasoning isn't just a heuristic/mental shortcut, but is fundamental to thinking itself. We think by building and simulating mental causal models.

Registration for our Early and Mid Career Spring Day on grant and fellowship applications is now open! It will take place on Friday 10th May at the University of Warwick.

Use the link below to register to attend ⬇️

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Society for Social Medicine & Population Health MCR_SSM

Using negative control populations to assess unmeasured confounding and direct effects. Piccininni, Marco; Stensrud, Mats Julius. Epidemiology. journals.lww.com/epidem/abstrac…

'Causality in Mind: Learning, reasoning, and blaming' with David Lagnado from Causal Cognition Lab

The next The Alan Turing Institute causal inference seminar, at 3pm (UK) on 8th Apr 2024.

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I'm ashamed to admit I am fully invested in #WhereIsKate

Prince Andrew is now claiming that Kate also photoshopped this photo.
#KateMiddleton

Staff at Alan Turing Institute speak out after four men given top roles theguardian.com/science/2024/m…

'After completing my PhD, I had ups and downs... As a black female, I felt I was very invisible'

For #IWD2024 , my friend & colleague Theresa Munyombwe shares the moving story of her career journey from Zimbabwe to lecturer in biostats at University of Leeds

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FOR EPIDEMIOLOGISTS & MEDICAL STATISTICIANS IN LONDON:

'Problems in the use of 'change scores' in causal inference' - 19 March 24 at 2pm-4:30pm with me & Michalis Katsoulis

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Cc UCL IEHC MRC Clinical Trials Unit at UCL

Paper in The BMJ shows ultraprocessed food consumption is associated with every adverse health outcome that poor people have higher risks of than the well healed. Here Marcus Munafò explains why these associations should not be interpreted as causal bmj.com/content/384/bm…

📢 Next NASH_UCL masterclass:

Peter Tennant & Michalis Katsoulis will present

'Problems in the use of 'change scores' in causal inference'

When: Tuesday, 19th March 2024, 2.00-4.30pm

Where: B17 Basement LT, 1-19 Torrington Place WC1E 7HB

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My #EpiRedFlags :

> risk factors
> stepwise selection
> Variables are dichotomized
> p<0.05
> T-tests or Mann-Whitney U tests
> use of change scores
> misuse of 'multivariate'
> misuse of 'quintiles'
> R^2 reported when it's not a prediction model
> post-hoc power calculations

influencers are just modern day avon ladies

March is packed!

- Causal Inf and Nutition Symposium (6th) on the effect of dairy and NCs
- SER MidYear meeting (8th) on identification of micronutrient effects in obs data SER
- Causal Inf Symposium at EPFL with a poster on DNCs in nutrition

Free and hybrid 👇

I don't know where I'd be if not for #EpiTwitter and #StatsTwitter . I've learnt so much. I cringe so badly at the things I said and thought when I first arrived here.

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