Data and Science with Glen Wright Colopy is a podcast covering critical scientific reasoning, particularly from a data science / machine learning / statistics perspective. Episodes typically focus on understanding of how to be better scientists and critical thinkers for the practical purpose of being a better data scientists. Previously called: ”Pod of Asclepius”
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Sunday Jul 10, 2022
Sunday Jul 10, 2022
Eric Daza | Important Ideas in Causal Inference
YouTube: https://youtu.be/K5nsSMJVIT0
Andrew Gelman and Aki Vehtari wrote a paper titled, "What are the most important statistical ideas of the past 50 years?". The first idea in the list is "counterfactual causal inference". Eric Daza (Evidation Health) walks us through the main ideas of the Gelman & Vehtari paper, drawing examples from several fields, including medical & healthcare statistics.
Topics
0:00 - Coming up...Correlation vs Causation
1:20 - Most important statistical ideas over the last 50 years
6:10 - Counterfactual Causal Inference
9:40 - Assumptions Change between Applied Domains
21:10 - Propensity Score Methods
25:15 - Transportability of Scientific Results
26:30 - People don't want generalizable results
32:00 - Generic Computation Algorithms
37:00 - Reweighting
43:57 - Matching Methods
58:20 - Medical Data is Higher Dimensional that we think.
1:00:15 - Is a Trial Population Representative?
1:10:35 - Causal Models in the Future
1:18:45 - Apostates Welcome
1:21:45 - Scientific Debate
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