May 8, 2025
In this episode Lucy and Ellie dig into a recently publicized paper, "Vaccination and Neurodevelopmental Disorders: A Study of Nine-Year-Old Children Enrolled in Medicaid", which has gained attention after being promoted by RFK Jr. as evidence that vaccines cause autism.
Ellie breaks down her Substack critique of the...
Apr 24, 2025
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Apr 10, 2025
Noah Greifer is a statistical consultant and programmer at Harvard University.
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WeightIt package: https://ngreifer.
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MatchIt package: https://kosukeimai.
github.io/MatchIt/ -
Noah's awesome Stack Exchange post: https://stats.
stackexchange.com/a/544958
Follow along on...
Mar 27, 2025
Lucy and Ellie chat about large language models, chat interfaces, and causal inference.
- Do LLMs Act as Repositories of Causal Knowledge?: https://arxiv.org/html/2412.10635v1
Follow along on Twitter:
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The American Journal of Epidemiology: @AmJEpi
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Ellie: @EpiEllie
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Lucy: @LucyStats
🎶 Our intro/outro music is...
Feb 28, 2025
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 affordability of Disney World.
- Len's Deep Dive Post on the Touring Plans Blog [Blog Post]
- Wall Street Journal Artcile, "Even Disney Is Worried About the High Cost of a Disney...