The reflex to indiscriminately stratify and adjust on covariates is strong in biomedical research. I face this so often, especially with clinician-scientist collaborators.

The analyses and models that arise from this, in fact, often do not well represent how exposures and treatments exert their effect in reality.

A #TargetTrial approach crystallizes when, where, and how co-variates should be treated.

Take this great illustration from Target Trial originator @MiguelHernan where he explains the study design choices for study on COVID vaccine booster effectiveness:

https://fediscience.org/@MiguelHernan/109331025655365201

#epidemiology #biostatistics #epitwitter #statstodon #epiVerse @epiVerse

https://uxdesign.cc/mastodon-is-antiviral-design-42f090ab8d51

This article captures so much what I love about mastodon

Thank you @clive !

#mastodon #antiViral #SlowSocialMedia

I am still learning how to find my old twitter people over multiple instances and worrying about missing conversations given the whole "no alogorithm" thing, but slowly realizing:

was I actually seeing everything on twitter through my usual behavior (scrolling the TL), anyway? No!

With the mastodon web app, I can pin the hashtags I want and see ALL those posts and ONLY those posts without having to scroll through all the muck (unless you want to)! Truly a blessing!

#introduction

Hi I'm Jon, my job is to work with data from studies that follow families over time (cohorts) to figure out what we need to do for child and family health and well-being.

My passion in this is to get both researcher and knowledge users to use data and analyses properly, including ideological blind spots like the pitfalls of over-interpreting molecular data (even when it's not genetics) or how research needs to move beyond blaming moms for the success of their kids

I am also a dad of two young kids and thus have no additional hobbies other than being online 😅

#publichealth #epidemiology #datascience #biostatistician #biostat #childhealthandbehaviour