Journal Club 2022-2023

The Boston MCRC Methodology Journal club meets on the 3rd Wednesday of each month, from 12:15pm to 1pm.

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Date
Article Title
Presenter
Presenter & Teaching Points
9/21/22 Practical considerations for specifying a super learner
Rachael V. Phillips, Mark J. van der Laan, Hana Lee, Susan Gruber https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.06139

Dr. Jafarzadeh
10/19/22 Comparison of a Target Trial Emulation Framework vs Cox Regression to Estimate the Association of Corticosteroids With COVID-19 Mortality. Hoffman KL, Schenck EJ, Satlin MJ, Whalen W, Pan D, Williams N, Díaz I https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2796930

 

 Dr. Jafarzadeh
11/16/22

Implementation of G-computation on a simulated data set: demonstration of a causal inference technique.  Jonathan M Snowden , Sherri Rose, Kathleen M Mortimer
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21415029/

Introducing riskCommunicator: An R package to obtain interpretable effect estimates for public health. Jessica Grembi, Elizabeth Rogawski McQuade
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0265368

 Dr. Jafarzadeh
12/21/22 Approaches to addressing missing values, measurement error, and
confounding in epidemiologic studies
Maarten van Smedena,*, Bas B.L. Penning de Vriesa, Linda Naba, Rolf H.H. Groenwolda,bApproaches to addressing missing values, measurement error, and confounding in epidemiologic studies – ScienceDirect		 M. Lavalley PhD 
1/18/23

A Framework for Descriptive Epidemiology : Catherine R Lesko, Matthew P Fox, Jessie K Edwards https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35774001/

 J Liew, MD
2/15/23
State of the art in selection of variables and functional forms in multivariable analysis—outstanding issues.
W. Sauerbrei, A. Perperoglou, M. Schmid, M. Abrahamowicz, H. Becher, H. Binder, D. Dunkler, F. Harrell, P. Royston, G. Heinze; for TG2 of the STRATOS initiative Collaborators, Affiliations 
 K Bacon PhD
3/15/23 Cure models as a useful statistical tool for analyzing survival. Othus M, Barlogie B, Leblanc ML, Crowley JJ.Clin Cancer Res. 2012 Jul 15;18(14):3731-6. doi: 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-11-2859. PMID: 22675175 G Miller
4/19/23

Wearable full-body motion tracking of activities of daily living predicts disease trajectory in Duchenne muscular dystrophy.  Ricotti V, Kadirvelu B, Selby V, Festenstein R, Mercuri E, Voit T, Faisal AA.Nat Med. 2023 Jan;29(1):95-103. doi: 10.1038/s41591-022-02045-1. Epub 2023 Jan 19.PMID: 36658421 

 D Kumar PhD

Vijaya Kolachalama PhD
5/17/23

Many Analysts, One Data Set: Making Transparent How Variations in Analytic Choices Affect Results. : Silberzahn, R., Uhlmann, E. L., Martin, D. P., Anselmi, P., Aust, F., Awtrey, E., . . . Nosek, B. A.

  

M. Lavalley, PhD
6/21/23 Do clinicians understand the size of treatment effects? A randomized survey across 8 countries

Bradley C. Johnston,  Pablo Alonso-Coello, Jan O. Friedrich, MD, Reem A. Mustafa, , Kari A.O. Tikkinen, Ignacio Neumann, Per O. Vandvik, Elie A. Akl, Bruno R. da Costa, Neill K. Adhikari, Gemma Mas Dalmau, Elise Kosunen, Jukka Mustonen, Mark W. Crawford, Lehana Thabane, Gordon H. Guyatt

 Jean Liew, MD