All are welcome to the March @vicbiostat.bsky.social seminar.
Lee Kennedy-Shaffer from @yalesph.bsky.social will be presenting " #Estimands, Assumptions, and the Challenges of Evaluating Policies: Lessons from Staggered Adoption"
12 March, 9:30 AEDT online.
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#steppedwedge
Meanwhile, as an Australian who lived in the north east, they couldn't understand a word I said when I was fresh off the boat.
Why wouldn't you just use the Stata putdocx commands to automatically export the results? I have clinical trial progress reports that automatically generate with text, tables, graphs, formatted headings, page numbers, etc. each time I export from REDCap.
Australian researchers: consider writing to you MP requesting the full Medical Research Future Fund be distributed each year. I can't remember any grant budget we've submitted where the true cost of my work has been covered in full.
Emails can be generated on the AAMRI website: aamri.org.au/mrff
Screenshot from journal submission portal asking "If your article includes statistics, has the information reported been evaluated by an expert?"
Submission to the Journal of #Glaucoma requires consultation with a statistical expert. Seems positive but the message only appears at the submission stage, not within author instructions - perhaps too late? Will be interesting to see if this helps improve the standard of conduct and reporting.
Hard disagree. How are the kids meant to use their new bikes and togs from Santa if it's snowing?
I'll definitely have a rethink. Context explained in this paper doi.org/10.1038/s415...
That makes sense. I just worry about the impact on power given that it's difficult to recruit, that's why we chose rate of change to start with.
Is this still valid if the estimand of interest is rate of change from baseline per year? I.e., the interaction between tx and time is coefficient of interest. I guess it is because we are assuming that the rate is constant?
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But first authors are often students who move to other institutions and change emails. As someone who has to email corresponding authors for meta-analyses, I don't see the problem with them being a middle or senior author.
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* Causal Inference with Hidden Confounding
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MPhil at UOM get a score averaged from 2 reviewers and don't need to resubmit to address comments. A reviewer can adjust their mark after seeing the other reviewer's mark. 70% is needed to pass. I wonder if this is to assist in assessing eligibility for PhD.
This 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.
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Mark 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
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#ViCBiostat Summer School 13-20 Feb 2026
#Causal inference
#Estimands in trials
#Cluster randomised trials
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In Melbs and online.
More details to come.
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Just over 2 weeks to go until the Australian Trials Methodology Conference! Join us on 20th November in Melbourne (or online) to hear the latest developments in clinical trial methodology! #atmc25 @austrim-cre.bsky.social
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Add this to your list of examples. I wonder if it is hard for journals to consider retraction when they have charged publication fees. doi.org/10.1167/tvst...
Thanks for sharing. I've just nominated the paper for our November journal club. I've had two requests for this type of analysis in October alone.
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This week! Donβt miss Prof Eric Tchetgen Tchetgenβs @vicbiostat.bsky.social seminar on proximal causal inference!
I have a cheap version, but my favourite thing is they don't fall off when jogging. My colleague uses his shokz while swimming!
Join the October @vicbiostat.bsky.social seminar to hear Prof Eric Tchetgen Tchetgen speak on proximal causal inference.
All welcome online 23 October.
More info:
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It is difficult to find prospective comparative studies on many surgical interventions. I am working on a similar systematic review right now. Besides the issues relating to how problematic single-armed pre-post studies are, does anyone have any good references on when not to pool estimates?
Someone on here recently used a term like "paper laundering" when low quality evidence is included in meta-analyses. I'm pretty sure I am guilty of that here. In retrospect, perhaps we could have presented individual study estimates without a pooled estimate. >
www.ajo.com/article/S000...
This week! Join us on Thursday for the September ViCBiostat seminar on stat methods for registry-based trials.
I went to visit his plaque in St Peter's when I was in Adelaide for a conference. He must have left tourist attractions all around the world.
It hurt to have to pronounce the second w in Warwick when I lived there.
