#Propensity

scott cunningham

You know what is kind of funny but swept under the rug a lot? Bob LaLonde is his 1986 AER influential evaluation of the NSW program which was an RCT

This paper is a mess in my view. https://www.thelancet.com/action/showPdf?pii=S0140-6736%2820%2931180-6 The propensity model has very low likelihood of capturing the indication bias, and the fidelity of the data (huge registry with

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Since it's the topic de jour, I should confess that when I was younger, I was a big, big fan of bell hooks' writing on gender and men's mental health.

No doubt, this is a tough decision, but a pragmatic one. The stark reality is; govt can't rely on us to self-quarantine given our indisciplined propensity. And the cost of

Observational studies looking at drug effects in COVID are rolling in at mind blowing speedOutlining common issues perhaps not well appreciated outside the pharmacoepi community with hopes that this may

A surprising number of peer reviewers request propensity score-matched analyses for studies about disparities in care. In part, I think this reflects the ignorance about and disinterest in work of

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Women will hate each other over the smallest things, yet bond over how shitty men are, automatically taking the side of, and believing people they'd betray in a heartbeat over

Nick Carmody JD, MS Psych

Research has shown that there is a collective narcissism that seems to run through tribalization. An excerpt of something I wrote last year: 1/ "collective narcissism occurs when an exaggerated,

Management keeping tabs on workers' propensity to organize is nothing new. Starbucks would not only track who was wearing union pins but changes in how many pins they would wear.

There is racism and police brutality in Britain, but one must be careful not to impose the dynamics & categories of the US onto here. Two very different societies &

Erasmus Cromwell-Smith

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Coherence(Figuring Things Out in Life)A thread https://erasmuscromwellsmith.com/coherencefiguring-things-out-in-life/ Figuring things out in life (https://erasmuscromwellsmith.com/the-importance-of-the-small-details-in-life/)is to clearly

Well I guess Mr Dr Ranty Methods Curmudgeon is back because I'm about to go off on people muddling critiques of propensity score matching 1/https://twitter.com/PHuenermund/status/1251953408497668096 PSM is a method with

How many members can a tribe acquire before it's no longer a tribe? Whatever that number is, it's the number of members required to form a metatribe. A metatribe is

Probabilita @[email protected]

"You have privilege" has been recast as an insult, even though it was always supposed to be a statement of fact.Maybe we can use that to our advantage; present a

Boback Ziaeian 🤦🏻‍♂️

Let me take us all on a magical walk through the @Surgisphere "revision" and explanation given to the @lancet. Not everything looks like what it seems. I would hope @richardhorton1

Stefan Kertesz, MD

1/Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) is looking worse&worse as an option for care of #COVID19 The best new study offers a *superb* example of a statistical approach to data where treatment wasn't randomly