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Measurement Misspecification: When Your Data Aren't Wrong or Right.
If you’ve been reading E is for Epi for a while, you probably know about my chronic neck pain. Today's post is inspired by the challenges of measuring…
 • Ellie Murray, ScD
Direct-to-Consumer Lab Results are Probably Wrong
Doctors rely on the information they have about you to target medical tests at people most likely to be sick. This means that a positive test result…
 • Ellie Murray, ScD
When you're ripping off a bandaid, do it quick!
Over the last few weeks, the weight of the world has really been getting to me and I’ve found it hard to get motivated to write any articles. But today…
 • Ellie Murray, ScD
Detection Bias: Seek, and Ye Shall Find
It’s September which means RFK Jr will soon be releasing his promised report on the ‘causes’ of autism. Until then, we're learning about important…
 • Ellie Murray, ScD
How to Live Forever (or at least make it seem like you do!)
It’s September which means RFK Jr will soon be releasing his promised report on the ‘causes’ of autism. Until then, we're learning about important…
 • Ellie Murray, ScD
In my day there was no autism and we walked to school uphill both ways in the snow
It’s September which means RFK Jr will soon be releasing his promised report on the ‘causes’ of autism.
 • Ellie Murray, ScD
Prevent Illness with this One Weird Trick: Dying.
It’s September which means RFK Jr will soon be releasing his promised report on the ‘causes’ of autism. Let's prepare by learning type of bias.
 • Ellie Murray, ScD
Confounding by Indication: A Research Bias You Should Know
It’s September which means RFK Jr will soon be releasing his promised report on the ‘causes’ of autism. We can prepare by learning some key types of…
 • Ellie Murray, ScD
Are Pain Meds Giving Me Dementia? Part 2: Wrong Answer.
A public peer-review
 • Ellie Murray, ScD
Are Pain Meds Giving Me Dementia? Part 1: Wrong Question.
A public peer-review
 • Ellie Murray, ScD
Mamdani, Race, and Survey Design
Ask the wrong question, get the wrong answer.
 • Ellie Murray, ScD
How We Decide if COVID Boosters Work: The Test-Negative Design
If you watched, or read about, last week’s ACIP meeting, you might have heard CDC scientists talking about the “test-negative design” as a tool for…
 • Ellie Murray, ScD
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