Casual Inference

Pros and Cons of Randomized Controlled Trials | Season 5 Episode 1

Casual Inference

Show Notes

Ellie and Lucy kick off the season and introduce our new executive buzzer, Melita! Melita is a masters student in statistics at Wake Forest University and will be helping out with the podcast (and keeping Lucy and Ellie from using too much jargon!) Pros & Cons of RCT paper: Fernainy, P., Cohen, A.A., Murray, E. et al. Rethinking the pros and cons of randomized controlled trials and observational studies in the era of big data and advanced methods: a panel discussion. BMC Proc 18 (Suppl 2), 1 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12919-023-00285-8

Follow along on Twitter: The American Journal of Epidemiology: @AmJEpi

Ellie: @EpiEllie

Lucy: @LucyStats

🎶 Our intro/outro music is courtesy of Joseph McDade Edited by Cameron Bopp

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