Journal Club 2024-2025

The Boston MCRC Methodology Journal club meets on the 1st Wednesday of each month, from 12:15pm to 1pm.

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Date
Article Title
Presenter
Presenter & Teaching Points
9/18/2024 Against quantiles: categorization of continuous

variables in epidemiologic research, and its Discontents.

And

Cubic splines to model relationships between continuous variables and outcomes: a guide for clinicians.

Maggie Westerland, MA

Statistical Programmer and Clinical Data Manager, Rheumatology

 

10/16/2024 Regression without regrets: Initial Data analysis is a prerequisite for Multivariable regression. Michael LaValley, PhD

Professor, Department of Biostatistics

BU School of Public Health

11/19/2024 Canceled for ACR Conference
12/4/2024 Misconceptions About the Direction of Bias From Nondifferential Misclassification. Jean Liew, MD  

Assistant Professor, Rheumatology

1/8/2015 Using Big Data to Emulate a Target Trial When a Randomized Trial Is Not Available Brooke McGinley

Doctoral Student, Department of Biostatistics

2/5/2025 “Limitations of Minimal Clinically Important Difference Estimates and Potential Alternatives”

Article:

Response to Riddle and Dumenci on “Prospective Back Pain Trajectories or Retrospective Recall-Which Tells Us Most About the Patient?”

Gillian Fennell PhD

Postdoctoral Associate NRSA, Rheumatology, T32 Scholar

Dan Riddle PhD, author as discussant

3/5/2025
Sarah Tilley, MS

Statistical Programmer, Rheumatology

 

4/2/2025 Hung Vo, MD

Clinical Instructor Rheumatology , T32 Scholar 

5/7/2025 Michelle Yau, PhD, MPH

Visiting researcher

6/4/2025 Maggie Westerland

Statistical Programmer and Clinical Data Manager, Rheumatology