Casual Inference
Episodes
Optimizing Data Workflows with Emily Riederer | Season 6 Episode 8
26 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Emily Riederer is a Data Science Senior Manager at Credit Risk Modeling Capital One. Her website can be found here: https://www.emilyriederer.com/ ...
Combining Data & Making Effects Generalizable with Carly Brantner | Season 6 Episode 7
17 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Carly Brantner is an assistant professor of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics at Duke University and Duke Clinical Research Institute. Resources from thi...
The Art of Clarity with Andrew Heiss | Season 6 Episode 6
29 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Study Critique: What Went Wrong and How We'd Do It Differently | Season 6 Episode 5
08 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Lucy and Ellie dig into a recently publicized paper, "Vaccination and Neurodevelopmental Disorders: A Study of Nine-Year-Old Children...
From Model to Meaning with Vincent Arel-Bundock | Season 6 Episode 4
24 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Vincent Arel-Bundock is a professor at the Université de Montréal, where he studies comparative and international political economy. Vincent's we...
Propensity Scores, R Packages, and Practical Advice with Noah Greifer | Season 6 Episode 3
10 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Noah Greifer is a statistical consultant and programmer at Harvard University. Episode notes: WeightIt package: https://ngreifer.github.io/WeightIt...
Causal Assumptions and Large Language Models | Season 6 Episode 2
27 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Lucy and Ellie chat about large language models, chat interfaces, and causal inference. Do LLMs Act as Repositories of Causal Knowledge?: https://arx...
Data Integration for Impact with Len Testa | Season 6 Episode 1
28 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 afford...
Starting the Conversation on Models with Alyssa Bilinski | Season 5 Episode 11
10 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Alyssa Bilinski, Peterson Family Assistant Professor of Health Policy, and Assistant Professor of Biostatistics, at Brown University School of Public ...
Flexible methods with Edward Kennedy | Season 5 Episode 10
26 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Edward Kennedy Associate Professor, Department of Statistics & Data Science, Carnegie Mellon. ehkennedy.com Evaluating a Targeted Minimum Loss-Bas...
What Sports and Feminism can tell us about Causal Inference with Sheree Bekker & Stephen Mumford | Season 5 Episode 9
12 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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", comi...
Observational Causal Analyses with Erick Scott | Season 5 Episode 8
29 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Erick Scott is founder of cStructure, a causal science startup. Erick has expertise in medicine, public health, and computational biology. info@cStr...
Friends Let Friends Do Mediation Analysis with Nima Hejazi | Season 5 Episode 7
16 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Nima Hejazi is an assistant professor in biostatistics at Harvard University. His methodological work often draws upon tools and ideas from semi- and ...
Fun and Game(s) Theory with Aaditya Ramdas | Season 5 Episode 6
01 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Aaditya Ramdas is an assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon University, in the Departments of Statistics and Machine Learning. His research interests ...
Cookies, Causal Inference, and Careers with Ingrid Giesinger #Epicookiechallenge | Season 5 Episode 5
17 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ingrid is a doctoral student in Epidemiology at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto. Winning cookie recipe Follo...
Analyzing the Analysts: Reproducibility with Nick Huntington-Klein | Season 5 Episode 4
03 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Nick Huntington-Klein is an Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Albers School of Business and Economics, Seattle University. His research fo...
Immortal Time Bias | Season 5 Episode 3
20 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Targeted Learning with Mar van der Laan | Season 5 Episode 2
06 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Mark van der Laan is a professor of statistics at the University of California, Berkeley. His research focuses on developing statistical methods to es...
Pros and Cons of Randomized Controlled Trials | Season 5 Episode 1
21 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Remembering Ralph B. D'Agostino, Sr.
02 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Evidence Science with Cat Hicks | Season 4 Episode 11
17 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ellie and Lucy chat with Dr. Cat Hicks, VP of Research Insights and Director of Developer Success Lab at Pluralsight Flow, about evidence science. ...
M-Bias: Much Ado About Nothing? | Season 4 Episode 10
24 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Lucy D'Agostino McGowan and Ellie Murray chat about a "Causal Quartet" and spend some extra time on M-Bias! Lucy, Travis, & Malcom's Causal Quarte...
Thinking about Targeted Learning | Season 4 Episode 9
11 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Lucy D'Agostino McGowan and Ellie Murray chat about ENAR 2023 and Targeted Learning! Targeted Learning in R Handbook Follow along on Twitter: The Ame...
Prevention Strategies via the #Epicookiechallenge | Season 4 Episode 8
29 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Lucy D'Agostino McGowan and Ellie Murray chat with #EpiCookieChallenge winner, Viktoria Gastens! Follow along on Twitter: The American Journal of Epi...
Sensitivity Analyses for Unmeasured Confounders | Season 4 Episode 7
14 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Lucy D'Agostino McGowan and Ellie Murray chat about confounding! ✍️ Lucy's new paper: Sensitivity Analyses for Unmeasured Confounders Follow alo...
Randomized Controlled Trials: Efficacy versus Effectiveness, Safety vs Safetiness | Season 4 Episode 6
28 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Lucy D'Agostino McGowan and Ellie Murray chat about randomized controlled trials, thinking about efficacy vs effectiveness and saftey vs safetiness. ✍...
The Value of Instrumental Variables with Maria Glymour | Season 4 Episode 5
10 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Lucy D'Agostino McGowan and Ellie Murray chat with Maria Glymour, Professor of Epidemiology & Biostatstics at UCSF and incoming chair of the Departmen...
Methods chat about personalized medicine and positivity in causal inference | Season 4 Episode 4
30 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Lucy D'Agostino McGowan and Ellie Murray chat about critiquing methods research, average treatment effects, and positivity violations! Follow along on...
Hot takes and logistic regression love with Travis Gerke | Season 4 Episode 3
16 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Lucy D'Agostino McGowan and Ellie Murray chat with Travis Gerke, Director of Data Science at The Prostate Cancer Clinical Trials Consortium (PCCTC). T...
Counterfactual Thinking: Biomarkers, Napster, and Ice-T | Season 4 Episode 2
04 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Lucy D'Agostino McGowan and Ellie Murray chat about counterfactuals! Follow along on Twitter: The American Journal of Epidemiology: @AmJEpi Ellie: ...
Population and Biomedical Data Science with Enrique Schisterman | Season 4 Episode 1
13 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Ellie Murray and Lucy D'Agostino McGowan chat with Enrique Schisterman, Perelman Professor and Chair of the Department of Biostatistic...
What is the value of a p-value with Charlie Poole and Chuck Scales | Season 3 Episode 13
03 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we play the audio from a recent panel discussion co-sponsored by UNC TraCS, Duke University and Wake Forest U CTSA Biostatistics, Epid...
It Depends with Sander Greenland | Season 3 Episode 12
18 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Lucy D'Agostino McGowan and Ellie Murray chat with Sander Greenland, Emeritus Professor of Epidemiology and Statistics at UCLA. Follow...
The Intersection of Industrial Engineering and Causal Inference with Toyya Pujol | Season 3 Episode 11
05 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Lucy D'Agostino McGowan and Ellie Murray chat with Toyya Pujol, Operations Researcher at RAND Corporation. Follow along on Twitter: T...
The Intersection of Machine Learning and Causal Inference with Maggie Makar | Season 3 Episode 10
14 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Lucy D'Agostino McGowan and Ellie Murray chat with Maggie Makar, Presidential postdoctoral fellow and assistant professor in Computer ...
Artificial Intelligence, Personalized Medicine, and Causal Bounds with Judea Pearl | Season 3 Episode 9
28 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Lucy D'Agostino McGowan and Ellie Murray chat with Judea Pearl, Chancellor professor of computer science and statistics at the Univers...
The history of John Snow, Cholera, and Cookies with Chris Schaich | Season 3 Episode 8
14 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Lucy D'Agostino McGowan and Ellie Murray chat with #EpiCookieChallenge winner, Chris Schaich about the epidemiologist John Snow. Dr. S...
Asking questions that matter, getting answers that help | Season 3 Episode 7
05 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Lucy D'Agostino McGowan and Ellie Murray chat about their Spotify Wrapped for Casual Inference, and Ellie Murray talks about causal...
A Casual Look at Causal Inference History | Season 3 Episode 6
22 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Lucy D'Agostino McGowan and Ellie Murray chat about the history of causal inference, tracing the origins across disciplines from stati...
Hanging out in the data science trough of disillusionment with Hilary Parker | Season 3 Episode 5
08 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Lucy D'Agostino McGowan and Ellie Murray chat with Hilary Parker about design thinking for data analysis, the Dunning-Kruger effect, a...
Metascience with Noah Haber | Season 3 Episode 4
25 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Lucy D'Agostino McGowan and Ellie Murray chat with Noah Haber about metascience, causal language in the literature, and more! 🥇 Ca...
Solving Optimization Problems in Healthcare and Disney Theme Parks with Len Testa | Season 3 Episode 3
11 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Lucy D'Agostino McGowan and Ellie Murray chat with Len Testa, president of TouringPlans, about solving optimization problems in travel...
Causal Inference and Network Science for Public Health with Ashley Buchanan | Season 3 Episode 2
27 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Lucy D'Agostino McGowan and Ellie Murray chat with Ashley Buchanan about causal inference with a focus on networks. Dr. Buchanan is an...
Coronavirus Rapid Tests Sensitivity, Specificity, Messaging, and Use Cases | Season 3 Episode 1
13 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Ellie Murray and Lucy D'Agostino McGowan do a series recap and then discuss sensitivity, specificity, and appropriate messaging in the...
Our Michael Jordan Episode | Season 2 Episode 5
02 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this 23rd episode of Casual Inference Ellie Murray and Lucy D'Agostino McGowan chat about fixed vs random effect, complete a statistics challenge, ...
Health Policy with Julia Raifman | Season 2 Episode 4
08 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Ellie Murray and Lucy D'Agostino McGowan chat with Julia Raifman about health policy, a recent study on unemployment insurance and foo...
Celebrating 100 years with a look forwards and back with the D'Agostinos | Season 2 Episode 3
21 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Ellie Murray and Lucy D'Agostino McGowan chat with Ralph D'Agostino Sr. and Ralph D'Agostino Jr. about their careers in statistics, lo...
The Most Ambitious Crossover | Season 2 Episode 2
15 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In honor of the Society for Epidemiologic Research 2020 Meeting, the hosts of four epidemiology podcasts came together to record the first ever "cross...
Happy Anniversary to Us! | Season 2 Episode 1
13 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Ellie Murray and Lucy D'Agostino McGowan chat about ecological studies, the new Pfizer vaccine interim analysis, and more! 📈 Vanderbilt University ...
Why Everyone is Excited About Causal Inference These Days with Roger Peng | Episode 18
30 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Ellie Murray and Lucy D'Agostino McGowan chat about communicating uncertainty, how air pollution policy is determined, and whether causal inference is...
Thinking About Schools Reopening From a Causal Perspective with Emily Oster | Episode 17
16 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Ellie Murray and Lucy D'Agostino McGowan talk about the causal questions linked to schools opening during the COVID-19 pandemic. Then they have Dr. Em...
An Ode to Generalized Linear Models | Episode 16
02 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Ellie Murray and Lucy D'Agostino McGowan casually discuss linear versus logistic regression, prediction versus inference, generalized linear models, a...
Methodological Advances in Causal Inference with Betsy Ogburn | Episode 15
17 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Ellie Murray and Lucy D'Agostino McGowan discuss methodological advancement in causal inference with Dr. Elizabeth Ogburn from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg...
Casual Inference Live from SER | Episode 14
24 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Ellie Murray and Lucy D'Agostino McGowan are live for Society for Epidemiologic Research (SER) week! Follow along on Twitter: The American Journal of...
Community Engagement, Health Disparities, and Measure Development with Melody Goodman | Episode 13
04 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Ellie Murray and Lucy D'Agostino McGowan discuss community engagement, health disparities, and measure development with Dr. Melody Goodman from New Yo...
COVID-19, Masks, and Designing Observational Studies | Episode 12
22 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Ellie Murray and Lucy D'Agostino McGowan chat about coronavirus, the evidence we have about masks, and designing observational studies. Follow along o...
Getting Bayesian with Frank Harrell | Episode 11
22 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Ellie Murray and Lucy D'Agostino McGowan discuss Bayesian statistics, model validation, and more, with special guest Dr. Frank Harrell from the Depart...
Coronavirus Conversations 2 | Episode 10
09 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Ellie Murray and Lucy D'Agostino McGowan discuss coronavirus a bit more, focusing on mask wearing, data quality, disease modeling, and more! 📈 IHM...
Coronavirus Conversations | Episode 09
19 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Ellie Murray and Lucy D'Agostino McGowan discuss coronavirus with an added segment discussing current recommendations for people taking ACE inhibitors...
Causal inference for data science with Sean Taylor | Episode 08
20 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Ellie Murray and Lucy D'Agostino McGowan chat with Sean Taylor from Lyft. Here are some links to the content we talk about in this episode: 📝 Sean...
Asking harder causal questions with Whitney Robinson | Episode 07
06 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Ellie Murray and Lucy D'Agostino McGowan chat with Whitney Robinson from the Departments of Epidemiology at University of North Carolina Gillings Scho...
Internal and External Validity with Elizabeth Stuart | Episode 06
23 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Ellie Murray and Lucy D'Agostino McGowan chat with Elizabeth Stuart from the Departments of Mental Health, Biostatistics, and Health Policy and Manage...
Science Communication with Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz | Episode 05
09 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Ellie Murray and Lucy D'Agostino McGowan chat with Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz, an epidemiologist studying at the University of Wollongong and a science co...
Quantitative Bias Analysis with Matt Fox | Episode 04
19 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Ellie Murray and Lucy D'Agostino McGowan chat with Matt Fox from the Departments of Epidemiology and Global Health at Boston University. Here are some...
Fairness in Machine Learning with Sherri Rose | Episode 03
05 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Ellie Murray and Lucy D'Agostino McGowan chat with Sherri Rose from the Department of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School. Here are some link...
Socializing about Social Epidemiology with Onyebuchi Arah | Episode 02
22 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Ellie Murray and Lucy D'Agostino McGowan chat with Onyebuchi Arah from the Department of Epidemiology and UCLA Fielding School of Public Health about ...
Talking Target Trials with Miguel Hernan | Episode 01
08 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Ellie Murray and Lucy D'Agostino McGowan try to keep it casual in the first episode of the new Casual Inference podcast. Episode 1 features special gu...
Keeping it casual: the pilot | Episode 00
01 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Ellie Murray and Lucy D'Agostino McGowan try to keep it casual in this quick teaser to introduce you to the types of things the Casual Inference podca...