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Our paper has now been published (open access)! rdcu.be/dS1p5 Bottom line: More effort is needed to clarify the rationale for and improve the reporting of multiple imputation for estimation of causal effects from observational data. Clinical Epi & Biostatistics Unit (CEBU) ViCBiostat

Seminar reminder 📣 26/9, 9:30am AEST Arul Earnest: Machine learning techniques to predict diabetic ketoacidosis and HbA1c >7% among individuals with type 1 diabetes- a large multi-centre study in A/NZ In-person Monash Public Health and Zoom. Details: vicbiostat.org.au/seminars

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Congratulations to Daisy Shepherd on being awarded a University of Melbourne #EarlyCareer Researcher Grant! 🎉This grant will support Daisy's #biostatistics methodological work in developing novel tools & guidance for modern confounding-adjustment methods in observational longitudinal studies.

Kelsey Grantham from our "cluster cluster" will be presenting to the NIH Mind the Gap seminar series on Nov 6. Register to watch now!

Congratulations to Julie Simpson Julie Simpson on election as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences! Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences MISCH Research Hub

Looking for #biostatistics support? We now have some helpful info up on our website! ✅ guidance docs ✅ resources ✅ consultancy / collaboration vicbiostat.org.au/useful-links MISCH Research Hub Clinical Epi & Biostatistics Unit (CEBU) Monash Public Health

Registration is now open for our 2025 Summer School! 10-14 Feb All courses running hybrid in person at Monash Public Health and online via Zoom See full details on our website vicbiostat.org.au/short-courses Clinical Epi & Biostatistics Unit (CEBU) MISCH Research Hub

NEW PAPER! "Causal inference in multi-cohort studies using the target trial framework to identify and minimize sources of bias" led by Marnie Downes Clinical Epi & Biostatistics Unit (CEBU) ViCBiostat LifeCourse - A Melbourne Children's Initiative Check it out 👇academic.oup.com/aje/advance-ar… #EpiTwitter #causalinference #Stats

Seeing double? 👀👀 We're thrilled to have Jonathan Sterne (UK) visiting this summer. He's delivering 2⃣ seminars and a 2⃣-day short course on causal inference (10-11/2/25) with Margarita Moreno-Betancur, Katherine Lee & teams. For all the details - vicbiostat.org.au

Congratulations to Kate Lee on election to Vice-President of ISCB! 🎉 We look forward to seeing the positive impact of her leadership on the global biostatistics community. Clinical Epi & Biostatistics Unit (CEBU) ISCB_info

Congratulations Daisy!

Register now to avoid missing these three great courses! vicbiostat.org.au/short-courses Margarita Moreno-Betancur Jonathan Sterne Katherine Lee Jiaxin Zhang Melissa Middleton Clinical Epi & Biostatistics Unit (CEBU)

We're off and away with Summer School 2025! Jonathan Sterne is leading our Advanced causal inference course, ably assisted by tutors Ghazaleh Dashti, Marnie Downes, Daisy Shepherd and Jiaxin Zhang from CEBU. PS. Follow us over on ViCBiostat.bsky.social..

Another successful workshop from our missing data methods research group ✔️ Led by Margarita Moreno-Betancur Margarita Moreno-Betancur, with presenters Kate Lee Katherine Lee, Ghazaleh Dashti, Jiaxin Zhang Jiaxin Zhang , Cattram Nguyen, Melissa Middleton Melissa Middleton and Jessica Xu.

Wrapping up the week with a fantastic two-day course on SMARTs presented by Kelley Kidwell (University of Michigan)

Congratulations to Margarita Moreno-Betancur and Julie Simpson who have both received 2025 NHMRC Investigator Grants 👏 Margarita Moreno-Betancur Julie Simpson Clinical Epi & Biostatistics Unit (CEBU) MISCH Research Hub vicbiostat.org.au/news

Seminar 🗣️ Kelley Kidwell (Uni of Michigan): SMARTer Trials: Integrating Patient Treatment Preferences for Pragmatic Multi-Stage Trial Design & Analyses 27 March, 9:30am AEDT In person @ Monash SPHPM and via Zoom Details: vicbiostat.org.au/seminars

ATTN #clinicaltrial colleagues - the Australian Trials Methodology Conference is returning on 20 Nov 2025 Save the date 📆 Abstract submission open ✅ Speaker announcements soon 🗣️ sites.google.com/view/atmc25