Lucy D’Agostino McGowan
@LucyStats
Biostatistician • Assistant Prof @WakeForestStats • Postdoc @jhubiostat • PhD @vandy_biostat • SoMe Associate Editor @AmjEpi 🎙 @casualinfer • @WomeninStat
📈 I taught neural networks this week, so BEHOLD, an ode to @daniela_witten in the form of a shiny application: "it's just a linear model" neural nets edition lucy.shinyapps.io/neural-net-lin… #rstats
📣 July 22-25 I’ll be teaching an online short course on how to read and understand statistics commonly found in medical literature — tell your clinician friends! @StatHorizons statisticalhorizons.com/seminars/under…
🖐️ There are five days left to apply to our M.S. in Statistics program at @WakeForest ! Our teacher-scholar faculty would love to review your apps to join our small, collaborative program with thesis/non-thesis routes, generous funding opps, optional data science cert, and more!
Looks like we’ve got some central limit theorem truthers or nonparametric statistics enthusiasts outside my office window! 🙊 “normal is a myth”
#WSDS2024 @SarahLotspeich teaching us about missing and misclassified wells! 👏 👏
🧪 @SarahLotspeich (Assistant Prof), "Missing and Misclassified Wells: Challenges in Quantifying the HIV Reservoir from Dilution Assays"
I was slow to post, but @CarlyLBrantner and @LucyStats followed up with more awesome research!
Day 3️⃣ of Wake Stats at @AmstatNews #WSDS2024! Three of our faculty and former students will be speaking, panel-ing, and chairing today. #SmallDepartmentBigImpact
Excited to hear from my @wakeforestmed colleague Kathy Lancaster (@prof_klancaster) at #WSDS2024 about time-varying effect modeling for depression and heavy alcohol use in people living with HIV in Cameroon. Such interesting work!
Day 2️⃣ of Wake Stats at #WSDS2024! Four of our faculty and current and former students will be speaking, panel-ing, and chairing today. #SmallDepartmentBigImpact
🆕📄 Starting the week with a new faculty publication! Dr. @LucyStats (Assistant Prof) has a new paper out this week in @AmJEpi! She collaborated with researchers at @JohnsHopkinsSPH and @UNCpublichealth. Check it out!
👏 @LucyStats is at it again, and @StatStaci5 (Associate Prof and Associate Chair) is here with her! Join them and fellow speakers (@FannyBu214 and @nataliexdean) for "Infection Insights." #IDWSDS2024
⏰Session 48 "Infection Insights: Women's Contributions to Infectious Disease Modeling" is starting now for #IDWSDS2024! We have four incredible speakers from @umichsph, @WakeForestStats, and @EmoryRollins.
Join @StatStaci5, @nataliexdean, @FannyBu214, and me now! us02web.zoom.us/j/85803366630?…
⏰Session 48 "Infection Insights: Women's Contributions to Infectious Disease Modeling" is starting now for #IDWSDS2024! We have four incredible speakers from @umichsph, @WakeForestStats, and @EmoryRollins.
🏃♀️And we're off and running! @LucyStats (Assistant Prof) is the first of many Wake Stats faculty and alums who will be participating today. Yay, Lucy!
⏰Session 38 "The Art of the Invite: Crafting Successful Invited Session Proposals" is starting in 10 minutes for #IDWSDS2024! We have three experienced speakers from @Mizzou, @WakeForestStats, and @NIH who will be discussing their strategies!
Jason Kelce blasts statistics in wild rant: 'Stats are numbers, numbers are nerds, nerds are losers' trib.al/IcQSLpp
Jason Kelce blasts statistics in wild rant: 'Stats are numbers, numbers are nerds, nerds are losers' trib.al/IcQSLpp
🏆 Wake Stats took home first place yesterday at "Hit the Bricks!" They ran the most laps and raised over $960 for cancer research. This department runs models AND miles! #SmallDepartmentBigImpact
PSA - the main ideas behind “causal ML” and “double machine learning” go back at least 40 years Here is an estimator from a 1982 textbook that today would be called double machine learning or something similar
Once you have a pathwise differentiable parameter, a natural estimator is a debiased plug-in, which subtracts off the avg of estimated influence fn Pfanzagl gives this 1-step estimator here - in causal inference this is exactly the doubly robust / DML estimator you know & love!
🗓️ Only two more weeks until International Day of Women in Statistics and Data Science (IDWSDS) organized by @cwstat ! I’m lucky enough to chair 2️⃣ sessions (see below) this year featuring some amazing speakers. If you’re as excited as I am, register at idwsds.org