Reposted by Craig PickettDarren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · 06/08/2026How thick do you have to be to care so deeply about the ethnic make up of your descendants but not at all about whether they will have clean air to breathe or a livable environment? 25211
Craig Pickett @craigwpickett.bsky.social · 10/07/2026Great workshop on the how, why and when of l mixed modelling with @cameronpat.bsky.social today! Excellent lecture! 110
Reposted by Craig PickettViCBiostat @vicbiostat.bsky.social · 12/11/2025Mark your diaries! The ViCBiostat Summer School returns from 13-20 Feb 2026, in Melbourne and online. Courses include causal inference, cluster randomised trials, meta-analysis and the estimand framework. Further details TBA shortly - sign up to our mailing list at www.vicbiostat.org.au #statistics 01510
Reposted by Craig PickettMyra McGuinness @myramcguinness.bsky.social · 16/11/2025This week! Prof Ian Marschner from the NHMRC Clinical Trials Centre will be presenting the @vicbiostat.bsky.social seminar on Confidence distributions. All welcome online or in person. Friday 21 November 9:30am AEDT, Monash SPHPM. www.vicbiostat.org.au/event/confid...vicbiostat.org.auConfidence distributions: new tools to design, adapt and analyse clinical trialsConfidence distributions provide a holistic s 043
Reposted by Craig PickettFrank Harrell @f2harrell.bsky.social · 07/10/2025Yongxi Long and colleagues have written an excellent post about when and when not to worry about the proportional odds assumption: discourse.datamethods.org/t/when-and-w... #StatsSky #EpiSky #Statistics #RStatsdiscourse.datamethods.orgWhen and why (not) to worry about the PO assumptionAim We wrote an article (Long, Wiegers, Jacobs, Steyerberg, & Van Zwet, 2025) about the proportional odds (PO) assumption in the analysis of ordinal outcomes. we use various examples from neurological... 0359
Reposted by Craig PickettBob C-J and Geoff Cumming @thenewstats.bsky.social · 29/07/2025Look what you can find in the latest version of JASP: **esci** That's right, all your favorite estimation-focused analyses, strong hypothesis testing, and meta-analysis are available in the esci module for JASP 0.95. #stats #metascience Many thanks to the good people at @jaspstats.bsky.social 174
Reposted by Craig PickettPaul Naish @paulnaish.bsky.social · 18/07/2025Statistical Decision Theory: Using a 1940s Idea to Fix a Problem in 21st Century AI #CHANCE @amstatnews.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 095
Reposted by Craig PickettMargarita Moreno-Betancur @margaritamb.bsky.social · 02/07/2025NOW PUBLISHED! Featured article + 6 Commentaries + Rejoinder: “On the Uses and Abuses of Regression Models: A Call for Reform of Statistical Practice and Teaching” with my colleague John Carlin tinyurl.com/2z2tmkhh @cebu-melbourne.bsky.social @vicbiostat.bsky.social #EpiSky #CausalSky #StatsSkyonlinelibrary.wiley.comRejoinder to Commentaries on: On the Uses and Abuses of Regression Models: A Call for Reform of Statistical Practice and TeachingClick on the article title to read more. 198
Reposted by Craig PickettMyra McGuinness @myramcguinness.bsky.social · 26/06/2025Great to see this work by John Carlin & @margaritamb.bsky.social on the uses and abuses of regression models finally published. @vicbiostat.bsky.social doi.org/10.1002/sim....doi.orgRejoinder to Commentaries on: On the Uses and Abuses of Regression Models: A Call for Reform of Statistical Practice and TeachingClick on the article title to read more. 0277
Reposted by Craig PickettGrumpy Old Health Stats Dude @healthstatsdude.bsky.social · 02/12/2024"If you never use another p-value, you will have improved medicine.” -me, to clinicians 0365
Reposted by Craig PickettMISCH hub @mischhub.bsky.social · 17/04/2025Join us Wed 14 May as our biostatisticians @drkarenlamb.bsky.social & Phoebe Fitzpatrick address p-value misconceptions, explain the interpretation of p-values & confidence intervals & emphasise the importance of clinical significance in health research. Register ➡️ ow.ly/yB4W50VAzoo #EMCR 184
Reposted by Craig PickettMargarita Moreno-Betancur @margaritamb.bsky.social · 15/04/2025Looking forward to speaking at the CAUSALab methods seminar series next week! 👇 1156
Reposted by Craig PickettThe Chaser @chaser.com.au · 07/04/2025"I understand the struggles of renters. I talk to them regularly when I raise their rents." said Hamer. Full article here: chaser.com.au/national/ame... 24965258
Reposted by Craig PickettBen Eltham @beneltham.bsky.social · 06/04/2025International students are perhaps the most unfairly attacked demographic in all of Australia. We invite them here. The reason they come is to get an education. Most are incredibly nice people who benefit our country in all sorts of ways. They massively cross-subsidise domestic students. 16385108
Reposted by Craig Pickettaustralasianepi.bsky.social @australasianepi.bsky.social · 23/03/2025Join us for our Methods Seminar with A/Prof Melissa Russell on Quantitative Bias Analysis! She'll walk through a practical example of correcting misclassification bias - perfect for epi researchers at any level! May 2 12:00-13:00 AEST Register: go.unimelb.edu.au/cq6p Free for AEA members!go.unimelb.edu.auAn introduction to Quantitative Bias AnalysisAEA Methods Seminar #3 for 2025! In this presentation, Melissa will introduce quantitative bias analysis (QBA) and discuss its application. 021
Craig Pickett @craigwpickett.bsky.social · 24/02/2025Congrats @julieasimpson50.bsky.social & @margaritamb.bsky.social Looking forward to more great causal inference output! 040
Reposted by Craig PickettGeorge Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 19/02/2025I’m George Takei and I approve of this message. 226914324629851
Reposted by Craig PickettRushani Wijesuriya @rush-099.bsky.social · 27/01/2025Hot 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/...onlinelibrary.wiley.comMultiple Imputation for Longitudinal Data: A TutorialLongitudinal 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.... 515064
Reposted by Craig PickettMargarita Moreno-Betancur @margaritamb.bsky.social · 04/12/2024NEW PAPER! "Causal inference in multi-cohort studies using the target trial framework to identify and minimize sources of bias" led by Marnie Downes Check it out 👇 academic.oup.com/aje/advance-... #EpiSky #CausalSkyacademic.oup.comCausal inference in multi-cohort studies using the target trial framework to identify and minimize sources of biasAbstract. Longitudinal cohort studies, which follow a group of individuals over time, provide the opportunity to examine causal effects of complex exposure 2154
Reposted by Craig PickettGhazaleh Dashti @ghazalehd.bsky.social · 21/11/2024Registration is now open for VicBiostat 2025 Summer School! 10-14 Feb: - Advanced causal inference - Modern missing data methods - SMARTs design & analysis All courses run hybrid in person at @Monash_SPHPM & online via Zoom: www.vicbiostat.org.au/short-courses #episky #causalinference #statsvicbiostat.org.auShort Courses 065
Reposted by Craig PickettAndrew Vickers @vickersbiostats.bsky.social · 14/11/2024My first post on BlueSky has to be about decision curve analysis, right? We created a website to make it very easy for everyone. Code, tutorials, references can all be found at www.decisioncurveanalysis.orgdecisioncurveanalysis.orgDCA: HomepageIf you can’t find an answer to a question in one of the other tabs, click on the “Discussions” tab, which will navigate you to the GitHub discussions forum for all Q&A. If you post a question, someone from our team will get back to you. 2368
Craig Pickett @craigwpickett.bsky.social · 12/09/2024Me…..at our next Research Group collaboration meeting….. 000