#Causality

Brydon Parker

parker_brydon

Identifying Causal Structure in Your Data- Helpful if you want to leverage the "Back-Door Adjustment" in order to robustly quantify the effects a variable X has on another Z- This

Zeal A. Jacobson

zeal_a

Here’s a THREAD related to the pandemic1. I stumbled on Sigmund Freud while writing a certain article about Nigeria & ever since, I’ve been intrigued by psychology. I then read

Elias Bareinboim

eliasbareinboim

1/2 I think the statement is a stretch, at best, and exactly the broader phenomenon Judea was trying to point out. Using the words "causal" or being connected with causality

Brydon Parker

parker_brydon

Causality For Data ScientistsThis will be a thread highlighting when and how Data Scientists can effectively leverage #causality.Inspired by and directly referencing @akelleh's excellent content on Causal #DataScience.https://medium.com

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MorlockP

I agree with parts of this, but strongly disagree with the "for", which implies causalityThe boomers accumulated a fair bit of wealth because, largely, they had luck to be born

Andrew is a fool, still working on the for Christ.

philosophus90

I see, if you’ll bear with me for a moment I shall endeavor to explain why it’s not incredulity that leads to that conclusion.https://twitter.com/illjord/status/1299331507111288832 First off, we are not talking

Cliff Burgess

CburgesCliff

1/N. Why antiparticles exist (a thread) 2/N The starting point is that quantum mechanics and special relativity are almost inconsistent with one another. 3/N. The problem starts with a problem

Mathijs Koenraadt

mknrdt

I believe I just uncovered a massive fraud. Despite that German thinker Martin Heidegger was considered an "anti-semite", I believe he was pushing for a Jewish time-concept.short thread --> 1/

黒田東彦 stan 🚫🛬5️⃣-gon

HarperMitchell

Saw @cushbomb was livestreaming on Instagram and wasn't ready for "the Irish are always angry because they have small penises and that's why they're always cops" Totally right though that

Deirdre Tobias, ScD

deirdre_tobias

Country-level correlation studies like the "lettuce will kill you" preprint provide epidemiologists with a good laugh-cry, & I want to be sure everyone understands why.So why are diet/disease correlations (AKA

Manuel Baltieri

manuelbaltieri

The field has moved quite a bit since that paper. I'd recommend https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/cogs.12142 for a recent look at these ideas.A few sparse comments:- saying that the brain or any other

Tessa Strain

tessastraining

New paper just published in @IJEeditorial. It’s about when to analyse cohort study data, an issue I’ve had in both my PhD and now Post-doc. Paper is quite dense at

David Ghost Dicks 👻

ALL_CAPS

COVID has proven that we’re incapable of even short-term planning. The spike in cases from our actions 2 weeks ago; by the time these cases mature in two weeks into

Fraser Simons

frasersimons

IMO, profound loss of agency like sexual assault doesn’t belong in collaborative fiction; not just without safety tools. It’s rarely handled well in other mediums. Whole different ball game with

Kristina Campbell, microbiome science writer

bykriscampbell

I've seen a flurry of published fecal microbiota transplantation papers lately -- and just in case anyone is getting the wrong idea (erm, biohackers), I want to emphasize: FMT is

Ayuba Ngidda

NgiddaAM

You could have made a fair point if perhaps your entire thread wasn't based on the expression of a husband who was recorded by a third party (who perhaps is