All Episodes

S5E9: Random Error Is the Easy Part

S5E8: Selection Bias: Colliders, Censoring, and Confusion

S5E7: Exchangeability, Positivity, Consistency… and Measurement?

S5E6: Confounding is the Marcia Brady of Epidemiology

S5E5: Causal Pies, Pizza Toppings, and Interaction

S5E4: Mind the Modifier: When Causal Effects Refuse to Be Average

S5E3: From Cashew Nuts to Counterfactuals

S5E2: Setting the table for Season 5

S5E1: A Casual Conversation with Miguel Hernán

S4E13: Agent Based Models

S4E12: Agent Based Models with Dr. Brandon Marshall

S4E11: Quantitative Bias Analysis

S4E10: Quantitative Bias Analysis with Dr. Tim Lash

S4E9: Regression Discontinuity and Difference in Difference(s?)

S4E8: Regression Discontinuity and Difference-in-Differences with Dr. Usama Bilal

S4E7: Instrumental Variables

S4E6: Instrumental Variables with Dr. Rita Hamad

S4E5: Mediation Continuation

S4E4: Mediation with Kara Rudolph and Ivan Diaz

S4E3: How do we define efficiency?

S4E2: Study Efficiency with Robert Platt

S4E1: We’re Baaaaack… A Season 4 Preview

S3E12: Start with the questions that are easy to answer and then move on to the more challenging questions

S3E11: You say tomato, I say tom-ah-to: a (somewhat) head-spinning discussion about interaction analyses

S3E10: Time-varying everything everywhere all at once

S3E9: Feedback loops? Feedback spirals? Disentangling what we know about time-varying exposures.

S3E8: Maybe censoring is the least of your worries?

S3E7: Are time to event analyses the Space Mountain of epidemiology?

S3E6: Stratification with Rich MacLehose: Should you have Bert or Ernie pick you up from surgery?

S3E5: Should I memorize the Mantel Haenszel formula?

S3E4. Selecting people or selecting data: exploring different aspects of selection bias

S3E3. How do we deal with the people who never made it into our study?

S3E2: Should we try to ensure misclassification is non-differential? Discussing measurement error with Dr. Patrick Bradshaw

S3E1: Are we measuring what we think we’re measuring?

S2E16: There’s a 95% probability you’ll enjoy learning about sample size and precision with Dr. Jon Huang

S2E15: As random as it gets

S2E14: Confounding will never go away – with Maya Mathur

S2E13: Confounding: Ten thousand arrows going into a bunch of squiggly things

S2E12: How great are case-control studies with Ellie Matthay

S2E11: Case Control Studies

S2E10: The Return of the Cohort Studies

S2E9: The Cohort Studies Brouhaha

S2E8: Measures of Effect with Katie Lesko

S2E7: The donut episode: Measures of association

S2E6: Chapter 4 – The building blocks of epi with Dr. Liz Stuart

S2E5: Chapter 4 – The great open vs closed population debate

S2E4: More on causal inference with Dr. Jay Kaufman

S2E3. More on causal inference and scientific reasoning

S2E2: A discussion on causal inference and scientific reasoning

S2E1: Modern Epidemiology: An interview with Dr. Kenneth Rothman

1.20 Season 1 Finale: Will we ever have to stop wearing sweatpants to work? Lessons from a year of pandemic podcasting.

1.19 SERious Epi Journal Club – BNT162b2 mRNA Covid-19 Vaccine in a Nationwide Mass Vaccination Setting

1.18 Lifecourse epidemiology: a melting pot of bias?

1.17 Do external validity and transportability confuse the daylights out of you?

1.16 Finding the Perfect Match Requires Common Support: Matching with Dr. Anusha Vable

1.15 The pool is big enough for all of us: Representativeness with Dr. Jonathan Jackson

1.14. It’s always a competition: Competing Risks with Dr. Bryan Lau

1.13. It’s all about the instruments: with Sonja Swanson

1.12. Epidemiology podcast crossover

1.11. The need for theory in epidemiology – with Dr. Nancy Krieger

1.10. Quasi-experimental Studies – A Love Story: With Tarik Benmarhnia

1.9. When Epidemiologists and Variables Collide: with Elizabeth Rose Mayeda

1.8. The Discipline Olympics: Epidemiology vs. Public Health with Dr. Laura Rosella

1.7. The Bread and Butter of Bayes with Ghassan Hamra

1.6. Questioning the Questions with Maria Glymour

1.5. Putting the Social Back in Social Epidemiology with Dr. Whitney Robinson

1.4. Statisticalize your intervention soup: A journal club episode discussing Hernan and Taubman’s “Does obesity shorten life?”

1.3. The Countercultural Counterfactual Episode with Dr. Daniel Westreich

Bonus Episode 1.2.5: “Making Causal Inference More Social and (Social) Epidemiology More Causal” with Dr. Onyebuchi Arah and Dr. John W. Jackson

1.2. The Time is Not on Your Side Episode with Dr. Ellie Murray

1.1. SERious EPI – Introduction