I am a pharmacoepidemiologist and informatician who works at the University of Utah and SLC VA Medical Center.
Joined October 2018
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29 Oct 2020
Another one for fellows who happen to follow me :-)
25 Oct 2020
A hobby of mine is to browse Q&A forums on #DataScience #Stata #Pandas and other related topics. Occasionally I'm able to give some help. Usually it is easiest to help folks who observe a few common practices such as: towardsdatascience.com/how-t…
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28 Oct 2020
"Before the pandemic, we had 30 million who were still uninsured. And that number has grown considerably during the pandemic." Former health insurance executive turned whistleblower @wendellpotter talks to @jsilberner about the US insurance industry
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Brian Sauer retweeted
24 Feb 2020
Debugging in R: How to Easily and Efficiently Conquer Errors in Your Code | R-bloggers "If we’ve run our code and it has already crashed, we can use traceback() to try to locate where this happened." buff.ly/38W4XlP How did I not know this one?
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19 Jun 2019
Our team is so cool, we celebrated my visa renewal! Visa approvals are getting tougher, but my team stood by me. Thank you @ahalvani @BrianSauer @ZBurnpig @kellimrasmussen @chunyanglijones @SophiaChien2 @DMorreall Liz Christina. 🙂👏🙏❤️ It's a great joy to be part of this team.
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4 Jul 2019
A tool for empirical equipoise assessment in multigroup comparative effectiveness research - Yoshida - 2019 - Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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Brian Sauer retweeted
7 Jun 2019
Limits for the Magnitude of M-bias and Certain Other Types of Structural Selection Bias
Flanders, W. Danaa; Ye, Dongnib
Epidemiology: July 2019 - Volume 30 - Issue 4 - p 501–508 journals.lww.com/epidem/page…
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5 Apr 2019
Will IT expert doubts delay the VA’s community care rollout? federaltimes.com/management/…
Tutorials for IPTW and some diagnostics
github.com/pzivich/Python-fo…
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Brian Sauer retweeted
3 Apr 2019
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The reason some researchers still attempt to encode what they know in PO is purely cultural -- they were deprived of DAG education. Glancing at how a simple chain is encoded in the two languages makes you wonder why any bi-lingual would choose PO over x-->y-->z #Bookofwhy
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Brian Sauer retweeted
3 Apr 2019
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This discussion seems to be pitting PO vs. DAGs as two competitors. They are
in fact complementary. DAGs are used to encode what we know and PO what we wish to know. SCM is a bi-lingual framework, ucla.in/2umzd65, tying the two through structural equation semantics
3 Apr 2019
That being said, DAGs are also a big part of the epi curriculum, but mostly as a way to identify sufficient sets of variables to block backdoor paths and to distinguish confounders, mediators, and colliders.
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Brian Sauer retweeted
3 Apr 2019
Very nice to see NeurIPS adopting a "reproducibility checklist" and a code sharing policy. This helps bring much needed transparency and rigor to our field (also helpful for getting reliable stats about framework usage... 😌)
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24 Mar 2019
How to write code you will love in the future by @daslusan medium.com/p/how-to-write-co…
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24 Dec 2018
The coolest part of twitter is seeing threads like this. Where else could you watch a journal debate epistemology with Judea Pearl & Alfredo Morabia....
31 Aug 2018
Does #obesity cause mortality? This debate kicked off w/ @_MiguelHernan in the @IntJObesity nature.com/articles/ijo20088…. Now @yudapearl references that article in his response: ftp://ftp.cs.ucla.edu/pub/stat_ser/r483.pdf Sounds like a good debate. Let's hope there is more to come!
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Brian Sauer retweeted
24 Dec 2018
Had they left the OR & walked to any of the provider workrooms or clinic offices, they may have fainted at the sight of their software profoundly interfering with healthcare delivery for patients & providers alike
21 Dec 2018
I wish I had written this ->
"Epic’s coders often leave campus to embed in operating and recovery rooms, where they watch nurses ripping the tops off blood bags and surgeons opening up people’s chest cavities...(Some) faint at the sight of beating hearts." nytimes.com/2018/12/20/busin…
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Brian Sauer retweeted
24 Dec 2018
#reproducibilitycrisis affects more than just scientific studies!
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Brian Sauer retweeted
9 Jul 2018
Not quite.
Blyth failed to grasp the causal structure of the paradox in Simpson's example and misrepresented it. Because "most people" read Blyth’s paper but not Simpson’s paper, the misunderstanding has been perpetuated—from Wikipedia to the #BookOfWhy.
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5 May 2017
I thought I understood Simpson's paradox until I read Simpson’s paper. Turn out to be more interesting than expected bit.ly/2noUXcG
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