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Clinical Epi & Biostatistics Unit (CEBU)

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We provide high-level #biostatistics expertise and training to child health researchers at Murdoch Children's Research Institute & University of Melbourne & conduct methodological research @vicbiostat.bsky.social

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whizzfizzlizz.bsky.social @whizzfizzlizz.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Come work with us! For more information, and to apply, visit: careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo... Please contact Dr Liz Ryan (Liz.Ryan@monash.edu) with any questions or for additional information. Applications close on July 22, 2026. @austrim-cre.bsky.social
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Clinical Epi & Biostatistics Unit (CEBU) @cebu-melbourne.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Registration is now open for our 2027 Summer School! Early bird discounts available until 30th or September!!!📢
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Clinical Epi & Biostatistics Unit (CEBU) @cebu-melbourne.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Build your skills in observational studies & causal inference with our revamped course, Observational Studies: Modern Concepts & Analytic Methods- now including modern estimation methods (g-computation, IPW). 📅 18–22 May 2026 | 💻 Online via Zoom More details & registration 👇 tinyurl.com/4bebv8n2
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ViCBiostat @vicbiostat.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Summer school starts in less than a month - make sure you secure you spot soon! Course details and links to register can be found here 👇 www.vicbiostat.org.au/short-courses
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Clinical Epi & Biostatistics Unit (CEBU) @cebu-melbourne.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
🚨 Registrations now open! 🚨 The ViCBiostat Summer School (Feb 13–20, 2026) is a fantastic opportunity to learn from leading local & international experts in causal inference, estimands, meta-analysis, and cluster RCTs. 📍 Melbourne / Online Links below 👇
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Clinical Epi & Biostatistics Unit (CEBU) @cebu-melbourne.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Strengthen your research skills in observational studies! 📅 27–31 Oct 2025 | 💻 Online via Zoom Reduced rates available for selected participants- more details and registration👇 🔗 www.mcri.edu.au/research/res...
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Observational Studies: Modern concepts & analytic methods - Murdoch Children's Research Institute
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Clinical Epi & Biostatistics Unit (CEBU) @cebu-melbourne.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Awarded every two years by Australian Academy of Science, the Moran Medal honours outstanding Australian scientists in statistics & related fields. Huge congratulations to our Co-Director @margaritamb.bsky.social on this well-deserved recognition! 🎉🥳 #WomenInSTEM #ResearchExcellence
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Clinical Epi & Biostatistics Unit (CEBU) @cebu-melbourne.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
A must-read piece led by @margaritamb.bsky.social with John Carlin and @rush-099.bsky.social (now in press in Epidemiology) #EpiSky #CausalSky #CausalInference #OpenScience✨
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Clinical Epi & Biostatistics Unit (CEBU) @cebu-melbourne.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Strengthen your research skills in observational studies! 📅 27–31 Oct 2025 | 💻 Online via Zoom Reduced rates available for selected participants- more details and registration👇 🔗 www.mcri.edu.au/research/res...
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Observational Studies: Modern concepts & analytic methods - Murdoch Children's Research Institute
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Clinical Epi & Biostatistics Unit (CEBU) @cebu-melbourne.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
🚨 Our popular two-part #Stata course is coming up soon — running virtually on Oct 14 & 15! Register via: 📊 Stata 1: mcri.edu.au/research/res... 📈 Stata 2: mcri.edu.au/research/res... 👉 Registrations close two weeks prior! 📝Self-study option aviable for MCRI staff- email us for details!
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Stata 1: Introduction to Stata: Managing Your Data - Murdoch Children's Research Institute
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Clinical Epi & Biostatistics Unit (CEBU) @cebu-melbourne.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Master REDCap for your research! 💻 MCRI’s REDCap I course covers all the essentials for managing study data. Next offering: Sept 2 online via Zoom. Register: mcri.edu.au/research/res... #REDCap #ResearchSkills mcri.edu.au
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REDCap 1: Introduction to REDCap - Murdoch Children's Research Institute
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Clinical Epi & Biostatistics Unit (CEBU) @cebu-melbourne.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
📢 Australian Trials Methodology Conference 2025 🗓 20 Nov | 📍Melbourne & Online via Zoom Join leading speakers from academia, industry & healthcare. 🎟 Early-bird rates until 26 Sep! 🔗Register: atmc25.com #ClinicalTrials #TrialMethodology #Biostatistics @vicbiostat.bsky.social
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Clinical Epi & Biostatistics Unit (CEBU) @cebu-melbourne.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
📊 Boost your research skills with MCRI’s Intro to Biostatistics! Learn study design, data analysis & result interpretation. 🗓️ Sept 8–12 🕘9AM-12.30 PM| 💻 Online via Zoom. Register: mcri.edu.au/researcher-t... #Biostatistics #Research
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Introduction to Biostatistics - Murdoch Children's Research Institute
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Clinical Epi & Biostatistics Unit (CEBU) @cebu-melbourne.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Master REDCap for your research! 💻 MCRI’s REDCap I course covers all the essentials for managing study data. Next offering: Sept 2 online via Zoom. Register: mcri.edu.au/research/res... #REDCap #ResearchSkills mcri.edu.au
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REDCap 1: Introduction to REDCap - Murdoch Children's Research Institute
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Clinical Epi & Biostatistics Unit (CEBU) @cebu-melbourne.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
📢 Now open for registration: Designing Your Research Study (13–14 Aug 2025). This CEBU online course covers question development, study design, analysis planning, and more. Details & registration: 🔗 tinyurl.com/ekpajf3a Discounted rates available (internal, student & LMIC participants) #episky
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Designing Your Research Study - Murdoch Children's Research Institute
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Clinical Epi & Biostatistics Unit (CEBU) @cebu-melbourne.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
🚨New method! So proud to see work led by @cttc101.bsky.social w/ @margaritamb.bsky.social @ghazalehd.bsky.social now available as an R package 📦 A powerful tool for estimating intervention effects via multiple mediators w/real examples to guide you! Check it out ⬇️ #epitwitter #causaltwitter #rstats
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Ghazaleh Dashti @ghazalehd.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
📣 📣NEW PAPER providing guidance on best practice for using multiple imputation when estimating interventional mediation effects, considering missingness mechanism, multiple imputation model specification, & variance estimation #CausalSky #EpiSky Read more 👇🏽 journals.lww.com/epidem/abstr...
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Handling multivariable missing data in causal mediation... : Epidemiology
miologic studies. However, guidance is lacking on best practice for using multiple imputation when estimating interventional mediation effects, specifically regarding the role of missingness mechanism...
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Margarita Moreno-Betancur @margaritamb.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Over the moon to have received the Moran Medal from the Australian Academy of Science!🥳 Amazing recognition, hopefully highlighting the key role of biostats & causal inference in high-quality research vimeo.com/1065735362 tinyurl.com/2m3dx2ms @cebu-melbourne.bsky.social @vicbiostat.bsky.social
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Professor Margarita Moreno-Betancur - Moran Medal 2025
This is "Professor Margarita Moreno-Betancur - Moran Medal 2025" by Australian Academy of Science on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people…
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Tong Chen @cttc101.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Thrilled to share our new preprint on causal ML for mediation analysis! We introduce causal ML estimators for interventional effects explicitly mapped to target trials assessing hypothetical interventions inducing distinct shifts in joint mediator distributions📊 📈🧪 #CausalSky #EpiSky
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Margarita Moreno-Betancur @margaritamb.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Recording of my talk @causalab.bsky.social on using m-DAGs to guide the treatment of missing data now available 👇 #EpiSky #CausalSky
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Clinical Epi & Biostatistics Unit (CEBU) @cebu-melbourne.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
🚨 A MUST-READ by John Carlin and @margaritamb.bsky.social including 6 commentaries and rejoinder NOW PUBLISHED: “On the Uses and Abuses of Regression Models: A Call for Reform of Statistical Practice and Teaching”
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Ghazaleh Dashti @ghazalehd.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
📢 New Commentary: We discuss how analytic choices impact interpretation of studies on socioeconomic health inequities. We review 1) descriptive analogues of causal estimands (à la Young et al) with competing events; 2) timescale choice; and 3) covariate adjustment. 👉 academic.oup.com/aje/advance-...
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Invited commentary: Descriptive social epidemiology: putting the question before the methods
Abstract. In studies describing socioeconomic inequities in health outcomes, the choice of estimand and the planned analytic approach are central to the in
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Clinical Epi & Biostatistics Unit (CEBU) @cebu-melbourne.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
📊 Observational Studies: Modern Concepts & Analytic Methods ✍️This course provides a comprehensive introduction to key concepts for observational studies in clinical and health research 📅 Next online iteration: 19–23 May from 9 AM-1PM each day 🔗https://shorturl.at/CYDUB
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Clinical Epi & Biostatistics Unit (CEBU) @cebu-melbourne.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
🚨 Our popular two-part #Stata course is back — running virtually on May 6 & 7! 📊 Stata 1: mcri.edu.au/research/res... 📈 Stata 2: mcri.edu.au/research/res... 👉 Visit the links to register for a spot!
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Stata 1 - Online and Classroom Mode - Murdoch Children's Research Institute
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Clinical Epi & Biostatistics Unit (CEBU) @cebu-melbourne.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Looking to advance your #REDCap skills?🖥️ Registrations are now open for the "REDCap II: Beyond the Basics" half day online course run by us, scheduled to be held on the 29th of April: www.mcri.edu.au/research/res...
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REDCap II - Murdoch Children's Research Institute
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Clinical Epi & Biostatistics Unit (CEBU) @cebu-melbourne.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Looking to advance your #REDCap skills?🖥️ Registrations are now open for the "REDCap II: Beyond the Basics" half day online course run by us, scheduled to be held on the 29th of April: www.mcri.edu.au/research/res...
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REDCap II - Murdoch Children's Research Institute
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Clinical Epi & Biostatistics Unit (CEBU) @cebu-melbourne.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Huge congratulations to our incredible Co-Director on this well-deserved recognition! 🏅🎉
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ViCBiostat @vicbiostat.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Congratulations to Margarita on this prestigious award! 🏅 The Moran Medal is awarded every 2 years to an outstanding emerging leader in statistical science. This recognises Margarita's outstanding scientific leadership in the fields of causal inference and missing data. More details in the 📼 below
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Clinical Epi & Biostatistics Unit (CEBU) @cebu-melbourne.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
🎉 Our VERY FIRST newsletter is here! 📬Use the link to access it and learn more about our group and the work/activities we do: shorturl.at/bzmio @vicbiostat.bsky.social
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Clinical Epi & Biostatistics Unit (CEBU) @cebu-melbourne.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Our next Introduction to Biostatistics course will take place over 5 half days 9am -12.30pm on 24-28 March 2025 at @MCRI_for_kids. Read more and register here: www.mcri.edu.au/research/res... Reduced rates available for internal and LMIC participants, reach out: cebu.admin@mcri.edu.au
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Introduction to Biostatistics - Murdoch Children's Research Institute
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Clinical Epi & Biostatistics Unit (CEBU) @cebu-melbourne.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Are you planning on using #REDCap to capture #data for your #research study? Then our half-day Introduction to #REDCap course might be for you. Register using the link below for the online offering on the 18th of March: www.trybooking.com/events/landi...
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REDCap 1 2025
REDCap is a secure, web-based application for building and managing online databases and surveys. It is available for use in MCRI research free of...
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ViCBiostat @vicbiostat.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Exciting Monday news with two of our brilliant researchers awarded NHMRC Investigator Grants 🎊 Congratulations Margarita Moreno-Betancur @margaritamb.bsky.social and Julie Simpson @julieasimpson50.bsky.social More: www.vicbiostat.org.au/news @mischhub.bsky.social @cebu-melbourne.bsky.social
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Clinical Epi & Biostatistics Unit (CEBU) @cebu-melbourne.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Huge congratulations to our co-director @margaritamb.bsky.social for receiving an #NHMRC investigator grant to further her research work in #causalinference research !! 🥂🎉
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ViCBiostat @vicbiostat.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Another successful workshop from our missing data methods research group ✔️Led by Margarita Moreno-Betancur @margaritamb.bsky.social, with presenters Kate Lee, Ghazaleh Dashti @ghazalehd.bsky.social, Jiaxin Zhang, Cattram Nguyen, Melissa Middleton and Jessica Xu. Thank you to all who came along!
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Clinical Epi & Biostatistics Unit (CEBU) @cebu-melbourne.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Our research methods and software training course timetable for 2025 is out! check it out here 👇 www.mcri.edu.au/research/res...
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CEBU course timetable - Murdoch Children's Research Institute
2025 CEBU course timetable at MCRI. Enhance your research skills with our short courses in clinical research methods, data management, and statistical analysis.
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Margarita Moreno-Betancur @margaritamb.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
WORKSHOPS! On causal inference, missing data and SMARTs, part of the ViCBiostat Summer School (10-14 Feb, hybrid). For more details & registration visit: www.vicbiostat.org.au/short-courses #CausalSky #EpiSky
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Rushani Wijesuriya @rush-099.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Hot off the press! 📣📣In this tutorial we illustrate available multiple imputation approaches for handling longitudinal data including when they are clustered within higher level clusters. A reproducible example with R and Stata code provided! #OpenAccess onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Multiple Imputation for Longitudinal Data: A Tutorial
Longitudinal studies are frequently used in medical research and involve collecting repeated measures on individuals over time. Observations from the same individual are invariably correlated and thu....
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Margarita Moreno-Betancur @margaritamb.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
NOW PUBLISHED! Correction to: “Canonical causal diagrams to guide the treatment of missing data in epidemiologic studies" doi.org/10.1093/aje/... Grateful to have had the opportunity to correct our paper translating missingness DAGs (m-DAGs) into epidemiological practice #CausalSky #EpiSky
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Correction to: “Canonical causal diagrams to guide the treatment of missing data in epidemiologic studies”
Moreno-Betancur et al.1 report and correct here errors in their article “Canonical causal diagrams to guide the treatment of missing data in epidemiologic
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Ghazaleh Dashti @ghazalehd.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
NEW COMMENTARY in Epidemiology on causal estimands in studies of pre-diagnostic exposures and cancer survival #EpiSkye #CausalSky journals.lww.com/epidem/citat...
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Pre-diagnostic exposures and cancer survival: Can a... : Epidemiology
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Lachlan Cribb @lachcribb.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
New paper!! We find that prevalent exposure designs are very common in dementia research, explain why they are ill-suited for causal inference, and show how the target trial framework helps us move beyond them. Read here👇 www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Moving beyond the prevalent exposure design for causal inference in dementia research
As randomised trials are not always feasible or practical, observational studies remain crucial for addressing many causal questions in the dementia prevention field. Through a systematic search, we f...
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