Abstract. Negative controls have gained traction as a useful tool for causal research to address confounding and bias. However, general guidance on how to

If reviewers can’t reliably tell the difference between top grant proposals, why should they pretend they can? A new wave of funders is turning to lotteries to break the tie.

Abstract. Machine learning-based heterogeneous treatment effect (HTE) estimation and discovery have recently received substantial attention in the healthca

The latest outbreak of Ebola in DR Congo loomed over proceedings at the World Health Assembly (WHA) last week. The first case: April 24. A Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC): May...

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Study designs classified as quasi- or natural experiments are typically accorded more face validity than observational study designs more broadly. Differen

Health data are increasingly generated, shared, and analyzed across an ever-growing collection of settings. While these developments enable new forms of biomedical discovery and clinical decision supp...

Synthetic control (SC) methods are commonly used to estimate the treatment effect on a single treated unit in panel data settings. An SC is a weighted average of control units built to match the tr...

Mediation analysis plays a crucial role in causal inference as it can investigate the pathways through which treatment influences outcome. Most existing mediation analysis assumes that mediation ef...

In the January 2025 issue of International Journal of Epidemiology, Hystad and colleagues [1] contribute new evidence on the perinatal health benefits of r

AbstractBackground. Diagnostic self-testing for SARS-CoV-2 may lead to selection bias in test-negative case–control designs (TND) for COVID-19 vaccine effe

Different scientific traditions offer seemingly disparate approaches to inferring causal relationships in ecological systems. This Perspective unifies the causal assumptions and methods from...

AbstractBackground. The age of puberty is declining. Earlier puberty has major implications due to associations with later physiological and psychiatric mo

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Ethical research must not exploit scarcity as an experimental variable.

Introduction The safety and effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccination during pregnancy are commonly assessed using administrative health records, which may misclassify vaccine exposures. Objective The aim...

Since their mainstream introduction in the 1990s, causal diagrams, including directed acyclic graphs (DAGs), have been increasingly used to depict our caus

Since their mainstream introduction in the 1990s, causal diagrams, including directed acyclic graphs (DAGs), have been increasingly used to depict our caus

A fresh, charming, socially conscious tour of the mysteries of space-time, from the award-winning author of The Disordered Cosmos In her highly acclaimed debut, distinguished cosmologist and particle...

Olivia Guest & Iris van Rooij urge teachers and scholars to reject tools that commodify learning, deskill students, and promote illiteracy.