🚨 Registrations now open! 🚨 The ViCBiostat Summer School (Feb 13–20, 2026) is a fantastic opportunity to learn from leading local & international experts in causal inference, estimands, meta-analysis, and cluster RCTs. 📍 Melbourne / Online Links below 👇

Strengthen your research skills in observational studies! 📅 27–31 Oct 2025 | 💻 Online via Zoom Reduced rates available for selected participants- more details and registration👇 🔗 www.mcri.edu.au/research/res...

Awarded every two years by Australian Academy of Science, the Moran Medal honours outstanding Australian scientists in statistics & related fields. Huge congratulations to our Co-Director @margaritamb.bsky.social on this well-deserved recognition! 🎉🥳 #WomenInSTEM #ResearchExcellence

A must-read piece led by @margaritamb.bsky.social with John Carlin and @rush-099.bsky.social (now in press in Epidemiology) #EpiSky #CausalSky #CausalInference #OpenScience✨

Strengthen your research skills in observational studies! 📅 27–31 Oct 2025 | 💻 Online via Zoom Reduced rates available for selected participants- more details and registration👇 🔗 www.mcri.edu.au/research/res...

🚨 Our popular two-part #Stata course is coming up soon — running virtually on Oct 14 & 15! Register via: 📊 Stata 1: mcri.edu.au/research/res... 📈 Stata 2: mcri.edu.au/research/res... 👉 Registrations close two weeks prior! 📝Self-study option aviable for MCRI staff- email us for details!

Master REDCap for your research! 💻 MCRI’s REDCap I course covers all the essentials for managing study data. Next offering: Sept 2 online via Zoom. Register: mcri.edu.au/research/res... #REDCap #ResearchSkills mcri.edu.au

📢 Australian Trials Methodology Conference 2025 🗓 20 Nov | 📍Melbourne & Online via Zoom Join leading speakers from academia, industry & healthcare. 🎟 Early-bird rates until 26 Sep! 🔗Register: atmc25.com #ClinicalTrials #TrialMethodology #Biostatistics @vicbiostat.bsky.social

📊 Boost your research skills with MCRI’s Intro to Biostatistics! Learn study design, data analysis & result interpretation. 🗓️ Sept 8–12 🕘9AM-12.30 PM| 💻 Online via Zoom. Register: mcri.edu.au/researcher-t... #Biostatistics #Research

Master REDCap for your research! 💻 MCRI’s REDCap I course covers all the essentials for managing study data. Next offering: Sept 2 online via Zoom. Register: mcri.edu.au/research/res... #REDCap #ResearchSkills mcri.edu.au

📢 Now open for registration: Designing Your Research Study (13–14 Aug 2025). This CEBU online course covers question development, study design, analysis planning, and more. Details & registration: 🔗 tinyurl.com/ekpajf3a Discounted rates available (internal, student & LMIC participants) #episky

🚨New method! So proud to see work led by @cttc101.bsky.social w/ @margaritamb.bsky.social @ghazalehd.bsky.social now available as an R package 📦 A powerful tool for estimating intervention effects via multiple mediators w/real examples to guide you! Check it out ⬇️ #epitwitter #causaltwitter #rstats

📣 📣NEW PAPER providing guidance on best practice for using multiple imputation when estimating interventional mediation effects, considering missingness mechanism, multiple imputation model specification, & variance estimation #CausalSky #EpiSky Read more 👇🏽 journals.lww.com/epidem/abstr...

Over the moon to have received the Moran Medal from the Australian Academy of Science!🥳 Amazing recognition, hopefully highlighting the key role of biostats & causal inference in high-quality research vimeo.com/1065735362 tinyurl.com/2m3dx2ms @cebu-melbourne.bsky.social @vicbiostat.bsky.social

Thrilled to share our new preprint on causal ML for mediation analysis! We introduce causal ML estimators for interventional effects explicitly mapped to target trials assessing hypothetical interventions inducing distinct shifts in joint mediator distributions📊 📈🧪 #CausalSky #EpiSky

Recording of my talk @causalab.bsky.social on using m-DAGs to guide the treatment of missing data now available 👇 #EpiSky #CausalSky

🚨 A MUST-READ by John Carlin and @margaritamb.bsky.social including 6 commentaries and rejoinder NOW PUBLISHED: “On the Uses and Abuses of Regression Models: A Call for Reform of Statistical Practice and Teaching”

📢 New Commentary: We discuss how analytic choices impact interpretation of studies on socioeconomic health inequities. We review 1) descriptive analogues of causal estimands (à la Young et al) with competing events; 2) timescale choice; and 3) covariate adjustment. 👉 academic.oup.com/aje/advance-...

📊 Observational Studies: Modern Concepts & Analytic Methods ✍️This course provides a comprehensive introduction to key concepts for observational studies in clinical and health research 📅 Next online iteration: 19–23 May from 9 AM-1PM each day 🔗https://shorturl.at/CYDUB

🚨 Our popular two-part #Stata course is back — running virtually on May 6 & 7! 📊 Stata 1: mcri.edu.au/research/res... 📈 Stata 2: mcri.edu.au/research/res... 👉 Visit the links to register for a spot!

Looking to advance your #REDCap skills?🖥️ Registrations are now open for the "REDCap II: Beyond the Basics" half day online course run by us, scheduled to be held on the 29th of April: www.mcri.edu.au/research/res...

Looking to advance your #REDCap skills?🖥️ Registrations are now open for the "REDCap II: Beyond the Basics" half day online course run by us, scheduled to be held on the 29th of April: www.mcri.edu.au/research/res...

Huge congratulations to our incredible Co-Director on this well-deserved recognition! 🏅🎉

Congratulations to Margarita on this prestigious award! 🏅 The Moran Medal is awarded every 2 years to an outstanding emerging leader in statistical science. This recognises Margarita's outstanding scientific leadership in the fields of causal inference and missing data. More details in the 📼 below

🎉 Our VERY FIRST newsletter is here! 📬Use the link to access it and learn more about our group and the work/activities we do: shorturl.at/bzmio @vicbiostat.bsky.social

Our next Introduction to Biostatistics course will take place over 5 half days 9am -12.30pm on 24-28 March 2025 at @MCRI_for_kids. Read more and register here: www.mcri.edu.au/research/res... Reduced rates available for internal and LMIC participants, reach out: [email protected]

Are you planning on using #REDCap to capture #data for your #research study? Then our half-day Introduction to #REDCap course might be for you. Register using the link below for the online offering on the 18th of March: www.trybooking.com/events/landi...

Exciting Monday news with two of our brilliant researchers awarded NHMRC Investigator Grants 🎊 Congratulations Margarita Moreno-Betancur @margaritamb.bsky.social and Julie Simpson @julieasimpson50.bsky.social More: www.vicbiostat.org.au/news @mischhub.bsky.social @cebu-melbourne.bsky.social

Huge congratulations to our co-director @margaritamb.bsky.social for receiving an #NHMRC investigator grant to further her research work in #causalinference research !! 🥂🎉

Another successful workshop from our missing data methods research group ✔️Led by Margarita Moreno-Betancur @margaritamb.bsky.social, with presenters Kate Lee, Ghazaleh Dashti @ghazalehd.bsky.social, Jiaxin Zhang, Cattram Nguyen, Melissa Middleton and Jessica Xu. Thank you to all who came along!

Our research methods and software training course timetable for 2025 is out! check it out here 👇 www.mcri.edu.au/research/res...

WORKSHOPS! On causal inference, missing data and SMARTs, part of the ViCBiostat Summer School (10-14 Feb, hybrid). For more details & registration visit: www.vicbiostat.org.au/short-courses #CausalSky #EpiSky

Hot off the press! 📣📣In this tutorial we illustrate available multiple imputation approaches for handling longitudinal data including when they are clustered within higher level clusters. A reproducible example with R and Stata code provided! #OpenAccess onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

NOW PUBLISHED! Correction to: “Canonical causal diagrams to guide the treatment of missing data in epidemiologic studies" doi.org/10.1093/aje/... Grateful to have had the opportunity to correct our paper translating missingness DAGs (m-DAGs) into epidemiological practice #CausalSky #EpiSky

NEW COMMENTARY in Epidemiology on causal estimands in studies of pre-diagnostic exposures and cancer survival #EpiSkye #CausalSky journals.lww.com/epidem/citat...

New paper!! We find that prevalent exposure designs are very common in dementia research, explain why they are ill-suited for causal inference, and show how the target trial framework helps us move beyond them. Read here👇 www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...