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Casual Inference

by Lucy D'Agostino McGowan and Ellie Murray

Keep it casual with the Casual Inference podcast. Your hosts Lucy D'Agostino McGowan and Ellie Murray talk all things epidemiology, statistics, data science, causal inference, and public health. Sponsored by the American Journal of Epidemiology.

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Regression to the Mean Girls | The Comfort of Competence and the Speed of Justice, According to Law & Order

#3 trending · Mathematics

Follow Regression to the Mean Girls on [⁠Apple Podcasts⁠], [⁠Spotify⁠], or wherever you love to listen! Christine Zhang⁠ (⁠New York Times⁠) joins ⁠⁠⁠Sarah Lotspeich⁠⁠⁠ a

Sep 14
1 h 13 min

Regression to the Mean Girls | The Work is Mysterious and Important: Severance Data

#42 trending · Mathematics

Follow Regression to the Mean Girls on [Apple Podcasts], [Spotify], or wherever you love to listen! ⁠Lucy D'Agostino McGowan⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠Sarah Lotspeich⁠⁠ return with a data

Sep 7
42 min

Regression to the Mean Girls | Romance by the Numbers: First Sparks Across Tropes

Sarah Lotspeich⁠ and ⁠Lucy D'Agostino McGowan⁠ introduce Regression to the Mean Girls, a podcast about data-driven side quests in pop culture. In this episode, Sarah anal

Aug 31
56 min

Optimizing Data Workflows with Emily Riederer | Season 6 Episode 8

Emily Riederer is a Data Science Senior Manager at Credit Risk Modeling Capital One. Her website can be found here: https://www.emilyriederer.com/   Follow along on Blues

Jun 26 2025
52 min

Combining Data & Making Effects Generalizable with Carly Brantner | Season 6 Episode 7

#31 trending · Mathematics

Carly Brantner is an assistant professor of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics at Duke University and Duke Clinical Research Institute. Resources from this episode: multica

Jun 17 2025
52 min

The Art of Clarity with Andrew Heiss | Season 6 Episode 6

#19 trending · Mathematics

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 University. Vincent

May 29 2025
49 min

Study Critique: What Went Wrong and How We'd Do It Differently | Season 6 Episode 5

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

May 8 2025
55 min

From Model to Meaning with Vincent Arel-Bundock | Season 6 Episode 4

Vincent Arel-Bundock is a professor at the Université de Montréal, where he studies comparative and international political economy. Vincent's website: https://arelbundoc

Apr 24 2025
45 min

Propensity Scores, R Packages, and Practical Advice with Noah Greifer | Season 6 Episode 3

Noah Greifer is a statistical consultant and programmer at Harvard University. Episode notes: WeightIt package: https://ngreifer.github.io/WeightIt/ MatchIt package:

Apr 10 2025
1 h 22 min

Causal Assumptions and Large Language Models | Season 6 Episode 2

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/2412.10

Mar 27 2025
51 min

Data Integration for Impact with Len Testa | Season 6 Episode 1

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 Wo

Feb 28 2025
44 min

Starting the Conversation on Models with Alyssa Bilinski | Season 5 Episode 11

Alyssa Bilinski, Peterson Family Assistant Professor of Health Policy, and Assistant Professor of Biostatistics, at Brown University School of Public Health. Her research

Jul 10 2024
48 min

Flexible methods with Edward Kennedy | Season 5 Episode 10

Edward Kennedy Associate Professor, Department of Statistics & Data Science, Carnegie Mellon. ehkennedy.com Evaluating a Targeted Minimum Loss-Based Estimator for Cap

Jun 26 2024
38 min

What Sports and Feminism can tell us about Causal Inference with Sheree Bekker & Stephen Mumford | Season 5 Episode 9

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", coming Spring 2025. Reak

Jun 12 2024
49 min

Observational Causal Analyses with Erick Scott | Season 5 Episode 8

Erick Scott is founder of cStructure, a causal science startup. Erick has expertise in medicine, public health, and computational biology. info@cStructure.io "A causa

May 29 2024
51 min

Friends Let Friends Do Mediation Analysis with Nima Hejazi | Season 5 Episode 7

Nima Hejazi is an assistant professor in biostatistics at Harvard University. His methodological work often draws upon tools and ideas from semi- and non-parametric infer

May 16 2024
59 min

Fun and Game(s) Theory with Aaditya Ramdas | Season 5 Episode 6

Aaditya Ramdas is an assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon University, in the Departments of Statistics and Machine Learning. His research interests include game-theoret

May 1 2024
48 min

Cookies, Causal Inference, and Careers with Ingrid Giesinger #Epicookiechallenge | Season 5 Episode 5

Ingrid is a doctoral student in Epidemiology at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto.  Winning cookie recipe Follow along on Twitter:

Apr 17 2024
46 min

Analyzing the Analysts: Reproducibility with Nick Huntington-Klein | Season 5 Episode 4

Nick Huntington-Klein is an Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Albers School of Business and Economics, Seattle University. His research focus is econometrics,

Apr 3 2024
45 min

Immortal Time Bias | Season 5 Episode 3

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 Pharmacoepidemiologic R

Mar 20 2024
34 min

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I absolutely love the content of this podcast. Everything about it. I just listened to the optimizing data workflows episode and the tone and use of filler language were out-of-control distracting. It was hard to get through and focus on what was being said, which is was very interested in. If the hosts can work on minimizing the, “like, literally, whatever” 💁🏻‍♀️, then this would be a perfect podcast.

Megjhart · Jul 2025

Two things. First and most importantly, this is among the very best, most fun, most useful podcasts I’ve found. Thank you both for the time and work that you devote to sharing your (and others’) expertise in this awesome podcast. Second (from this Linklater-trained sometime-performer, now translational almost-PhD, modeling enthusiast, chronically under-slept parent, here): GUYS! Guys (or girls). Lay off the vocal critiques. Women scientists get disproportionately scrutinized for anything other than their science knowledge in *all* *their* *spaces*, so please give it a rest. Female scientists do communicate differently, and vocal routing is merely a dimension of difference (see what I did just there with that non-deficit-based language?) Notwithstanding that this irrelevant-critique-as-authoritative-discourse approach is nothing new nor unique to Dr.’s Murray and D’Agastino-McGowan, it is an unnecessary criticism that falls squarely into the the “non-useful to others” feedback bin. This podcast is awesome, these scientists know their stuff, and its fun to listen to, full stop.

kkflo00177 · Apr 2025

Casual Inference is a thoughtful yet approachable dive into contemporary issues in epi, I recommend it to my students, and the faculty here love to talk about the episodes. It inspires me to challenge how I teach, and how I approach analyses theoretically and analytically. Thank you!

Bill Jesdale · Jun 2024

Drs. Murray and D’Agostino-Gowan provide the content that reflects the state of the art in the relatively recent interdisciplinary area of scientific methodology called causal inference. This would not be your first podcast on statistics; it has to be layered on top of a graduate degree in statistics, data science, epidemiology, public health, economics, quantitative social sciences, and the like. As I try to stay current and relevant in my own work (which is a different area of statistics), the podcast has been very helpful for me in getting a glimpse of the discipline where 90% of the current knowledge has been generated after I got my terminal degree (2005). Looking forward to new episodes, and keep doing great work!

Grschunchibdseyv · Jun 2024

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