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Winter/Spring 2024 Schedule

Date	Reference	Paper
January 12	Manski	Communicating uncertainty in policy analysis
January 26	Glymour et al	When is baseline adjustment useful in analyses of change? An example with education and cognitive change
February 9	Vable et al 2021	Code Review as a Simple Trick to Enhance Reproducibility, Accelerate Learning, and Improve the Quality of Your Team’s Research
February 23	Petitti 1991 & Savitz 1991	Associations are not effects (Pettiti) and RE:Associations are not effects (Savitz)
March 8	Hernan and Greenland	Why Stating Hypotheses in Grant Applications Is Unnecessary
March 22	Sarvet and Stensrud 2023	Perspective on ‘Harm’ in Personalized Medicine
April 5	Kezios 2021	Is the Way Forward to Step Back? Documenting the Frequency With Which Study Goals Are Misaligned With Study Methods and Interpretations in the Epidemiologic Literature
April 19	Hernan 2019	A Second Chance to Get Causal Inference Right: A Classification of Data Science Tasks
May 3	Ferguson 2019	Evidence synthesis for constructing directed acyclic graphs (ESC-DAGs)
May 17	Peng et al 2024	Directed acyclic graph for epidemiological studies in childhood food allergy
May 31	Feuerriegel et al 2024	Causal machine learning for predicting treatment outcomes
June 14	Dahabreh and Bibbins-Domingo 2024	Causal Inference About the Effects of Interventions From Observational Studies in Medical Journals
June 28		End of year at Westkop 16h

Fall 2023 Schedule

Date	Reference	Paper
September 8	Epidemiology X	Submit a question
September 22	Westreich et al 2023	Target Validity and the Hierarchy of Study Designs
October 6	Pearce and Vandenbroucke 2023	Are Target Trial Emulations the Gold Standard for Observational Studies?
October 20	Amrhein and Greeland 2022	Discuss practical importance of results based on interval estimates and p-value functions, not only on point estimates and null p-values
November 3	Lakens	Confirmation Bias and Organized Skepticism
November 17	Dr. Kirsten Bibbens-Domingo	Medical Publishing in Dynamic Times (Part I)
December 1	Dr. Kirsten Bibbens-Domingo	Medical Publishing in Dynamic Times (Part II) & the C-Word paper

Winter/Spring 2023 Schedule

Date	Reference	Paper
January 13	Epidemiology X
January 27	Kaufman 2017	Statistics, Adjusted Statistics and Maladjusted Statistics
February 10		Discussion about statistical testing
February 24	Rothman 1976	Causes
March 10	Huitfeldt 2016	Is caviar a risk factor for being a millionaire?
March 24	Flexner 1939	The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge
April 7	Westreich 2017	From Patients to Policy: Population Intervention Effects in Epidemiology
April 21		What does an epidemiologist need to know?
May 5		What motivates scientists to do research?
May 19		Should basic methodological errors have consequences?
June 2		Explaning causal assumptions to non-experts
June 16	Glass 1976	Primary, Secondary, and Meta-Aanlysis of Research
June 30		Westkop @ 16h

Fall 2022 Schedule

Date	Reference	Paper
September 2	Wigner	The unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in the natural sciences
September 16	Greenland	Induction versus Popper: substance versus semantics
September 30	Taubes	Epidemiology faces its limits
October 14	Bashir	A precious case from Middle Earth
October 28	Cohen	The Earth is Round (p<.05)
November 11	Rose	Strategy of prevention: lessons from cardiovascular disease
November 25	Varlik	“Oriental Plague” or Epidemiological Orientalism? Revisiting the Plague Episteme of the early modern Mediterranean
December 9	Nick Binney	Philosophy at Erasmus MC

Winter 2022 Schedule

Date	Reference	Paper
January 21	Kronmal 1993	Spurious Correlation and the Fallacy of the Ratio Standard Revisited
February 4	Van Calster et al 2021	Methodology over metrics: current scientific standards are a disservice to patients and society
February 18	Ackley et al 2022	Dynamical Modeling as a Tool for Inferring Causation
March 4	Medden et al 2022	Inverse probability weighting to handle attrition in cohort studies: some guidance and a call for caution
March 18	Epidemiology X
April 1	Jim Smit	Causal Infernece and the ICU
April 15	Haushofer	CV of failure
April 29
May 13	Savitz and Wellenius 2022	Can Cross-Sectional Studies Contribute to Causal Inference? It Depends
May 27	Wagenmakers et al 2022	One statistical analysis must not rule them all

Fall 2021 Schedule

Date	Reference	Paper
November 26	Nimdet et al 2015	A Systematic Review of Studies Eliciting Willingness-to-Pay per Quality-Adjusted Life Year: Does It Justify CE Threshold?
November 12	Haber et al 2021	Causal and Associational Language in Observational Health Research: A systematic evaluation
October 29	Greenland 2021	Dealing With the Inevitable Deficiencies of Bias Analysis-and All Analyses
October 15	MacLehose et al 2021	The Importance of Making Assumptions in Bias Analysis
October 1		CANCELLED
September 17		CANCELLED
September 3		Epidemiology X