Myra McGuinness
@myramcguinness.bsky.social
Biostatistician who nerds out on clinical and epidemiological ophthalmology. 🇦🇺
Registration now open
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* Causal Inference with Hidden Confounding
* Implementing the Estimand Framework in Clinical Trials
* Pairwise and Network Meta-analysis: Fundamentals and Beyond
* Cluster Randomised Trials: From Fundamentals to State-of-the-Art
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* Causal Inference with Hidden Confounding
* Implementing the Estimand Framework in Clinical Trials
* Pairwise and Network Meta-analysis: Fundamentals and Beyond
* Cluster Randomised Trials: From Fundamentals to State-of-the-Art
December 4, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Registration now open
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* Causal Inference with Hidden Confounding
* Implementing the Estimand Framework in Clinical Trials
* Pairwise and Network Meta-analysis: Fundamentals and Beyond
* Cluster Randomised Trials: From Fundamentals to State-of-the-Art
url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/ZR0QCNLwzj...
* Causal Inference with Hidden Confounding
* Implementing the Estimand Framework in Clinical Trials
* Pairwise and Network Meta-analysis: Fundamentals and Beyond
* Cluster Randomised Trials: From Fundamentals to State-of-the-Art
Come join us tomorrow
This week! Prof Ian Marschner from the NHMRC Clinical Trials Centre will be presenting the @vicbiostat.bsky.social seminar on Confidence distributions.
All welcome online or in person.
Friday 21 November 9:30am AEDT, Monash SPHPM.
www.vicbiostat.org.au/event/confid...
All welcome online or in person.
Friday 21 November 9:30am AEDT, Monash SPHPM.
www.vicbiostat.org.au/event/confid...
Confidence distributions: new tools to design, adapt and analyse clinical trials
Confidence distributions provide a holistic s
www.vicbiostat.org.au
November 19, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Come join us tomorrow
This week! Prof Ian Marschner from the NHMRC Clinical Trials Centre will be presenting the @vicbiostat.bsky.social seminar on Confidence distributions.
All welcome online or in person.
Friday 21 November 9:30am AEDT, Monash SPHPM.
www.vicbiostat.org.au/event/confid...
All welcome online or in person.
Friday 21 November 9:30am AEDT, Monash SPHPM.
www.vicbiostat.org.au/event/confid...
Confidence distributions: new tools to design, adapt and analyse clinical trials
Confidence distributions provide a holistic s
www.vicbiostat.org.au
November 16, 2025 at 9:54 PM
This week! Prof Ian Marschner from the NHMRC Clinical Trials Centre will be presenting the @vicbiostat.bsky.social seminar on Confidence distributions.
All welcome online or in person.
Friday 21 November 9:30am AEDT, Monash SPHPM.
www.vicbiostat.org.au/event/confid...
All welcome online or in person.
Friday 21 November 9:30am AEDT, Monash SPHPM.
www.vicbiostat.org.au/event/confid...
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If you are interested in the problem of conflicts of interest, in any scientific field, please consider filling in this survey: erasmusuniversity.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
(and please repost this for a snowball effect!)
(and please repost this for a snowball effect!)
Survey - Conflict of Interest Statements
This survey investigates incentives for conducting and publishing research and how conflicts of interest should be disclosed.
erasmusuniversity.eu.qualtrics.com
November 13, 2025 at 11:01 PM
If you are interested in the problem of conflicts of interest, in any scientific field, please consider filling in this survey: erasmusuniversity.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
(and please repost this for a snowball effect!)
(and please repost this for a snowball effect!)
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Mark your diaries! The ViCBiostat Summer School returns from 13-20 Feb 2026, in Melbourne and online.
Courses include causal inference, cluster randomised trials, meta-analysis and the estimand framework.
Further details TBA shortly - sign up to our mailing list at www.vicbiostat.org.au
#statistics
Courses include causal inference, cluster randomised trials, meta-analysis and the estimand framework.
Further details TBA shortly - sign up to our mailing list at www.vicbiostat.org.au
#statistics
November 12, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Mark your diaries! The ViCBiostat Summer School returns from 13-20 Feb 2026, in Melbourne and online.
Courses include causal inference, cluster randomised trials, meta-analysis and the estimand framework.
Further details TBA shortly - sign up to our mailing list at www.vicbiostat.org.au
#statistics
Courses include causal inference, cluster randomised trials, meta-analysis and the estimand framework.
Further details TBA shortly - sign up to our mailing list at www.vicbiostat.org.au
#statistics
#ViCBiostat Summer School 13-20 Feb 2026
#Causal inference
#Estimands in trials
#Cluster randomised trials
Advanced #meta-analysis
In Melbs and online.
More details to come.
www.vicbiostat.org.au
#Causal inference
#Estimands in trials
#Cluster randomised trials
Advanced #meta-analysis
In Melbs and online.
More details to come.
www.vicbiostat.org.au
November 12, 2025 at 4:12 AM
#ViCBiostat Summer School 13-20 Feb 2026
#Causal inference
#Estimands in trials
#Cluster randomised trials
Advanced #meta-analysis
In Melbs and online.
More details to come.
www.vicbiostat.org.au
#Causal inference
#Estimands in trials
#Cluster randomised trials
Advanced #meta-analysis
In Melbs and online.
More details to come.
www.vicbiostat.org.au
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Just over 2 weeks to go until the Australian Trials Methodology Conference! Join us on 20th November in Melbourne (or online) to hear the latest developments in clinical trial methodology! #atmc25 @austrim-cre.bsky.social
www.atmc25.com/home
www.atmc25.com/home
#atmc25
www.atmc25.com
November 3, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Just over 2 weeks to go until the Australian Trials Methodology Conference! Join us on 20th November in Melbourne (or online) to hear the latest developments in clinical trial methodology! #atmc25 @austrim-cre.bsky.social
www.atmc25.com/home
www.atmc25.com/home
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Strengthen your research skills in observational studies!
📅 27–31 Oct 2025 | 💻 Online via Zoom
Reduced rates available for selected participants- more details and registration👇
🔗 www.mcri.edu.au/research/res...
📅 27–31 Oct 2025 | 💻 Online via Zoom
Reduced rates available for selected participants- more details and registration👇
🔗 www.mcri.edu.au/research/res...
Observational Studies: Modern concepts & analytic methods - Murdoch Children's Research Institute
www.mcri.edu.au
August 28, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Strengthen your research skills in observational studies!
📅 27–31 Oct 2025 | 💻 Online via Zoom
Reduced rates available for selected participants- more details and registration👇
🔗 www.mcri.edu.au/research/res...
📅 27–31 Oct 2025 | 💻 Online via Zoom
Reduced rates available for selected participants- more details and registration👇
🔗 www.mcri.edu.au/research/res...
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This week! Don’t miss Prof Eric Tchetgen Tchetgen’s @vicbiostat.bsky.social seminar on proximal causal inference!
Join the October @vicbiostat.bsky.social seminar to hear Prof Eric Tchetgen Tchetgen speak on proximal causal inference.
All welcome online 23 October.
More info:
www.vicbiostat.org.au/event/fortif...
#casualinference #biostatistics @upenncgh.bsky.social
All welcome online 23 October.
More info:
www.vicbiostat.org.au/event/fortif...
#casualinference #biostatistics @upenncgh.bsky.social
Fortified Proximal Causal Inference with many imperfect negative controls
Abstract: Causal inference from observational
www.vicbiostat.org.au
October 20, 2025 at 10:57 PM
This week! Don’t miss Prof Eric Tchetgen Tchetgen’s @vicbiostat.bsky.social seminar on proximal causal inference!
Join the October @vicbiostat.bsky.social seminar to hear Prof Eric Tchetgen Tchetgen speak on proximal causal inference.
All welcome online 23 October.
More info:
www.vicbiostat.org.au/event/fortif...
#casualinference #biostatistics @upenncgh.bsky.social
All welcome online 23 October.
More info:
www.vicbiostat.org.au/event/fortif...
#casualinference #biostatistics @upenncgh.bsky.social
Fortified Proximal Causal Inference with many imperfect negative controls
Abstract: Causal inference from observational
www.vicbiostat.org.au
October 7, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Join the October @vicbiostat.bsky.social seminar to hear Prof Eric Tchetgen Tchetgen speak on proximal causal inference.
All welcome online 23 October.
More info:
www.vicbiostat.org.au/event/fortif...
#casualinference #biostatistics @upenncgh.bsky.social
All welcome online 23 October.
More info:
www.vicbiostat.org.au/event/fortif...
#casualinference #biostatistics @upenncgh.bsky.social
Someone on here recently used a term like "paper laundering" when low quality evidence is included in meta-analyses. I'm pretty sure I am guilty of that here. In retrospect, perhaps we could have presented individual study estimates without a pooled estimate. >
www.ajo.com/article/S000...
www.ajo.com/article/S000...
Effectiveness and safety of cross-linking in keratoconus patients with corneal thickness <400μm: A systematic review and meta-analysis
In this systematic review and meta-analysis, we aimed to investigate the effectiveness
and safety of corneal cross-linking (CXL) in patients with keratoconus and thin corneas
(corneal thickness <400μm...
www.ajo.com
October 1, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Someone on here recently used a term like "paper laundering" when low quality evidence is included in meta-analyses. I'm pretty sure I am guilty of that here. In retrospect, perhaps we could have presented individual study estimates without a pooled estimate. >
www.ajo.com/article/S000...
www.ajo.com/article/S000...
This week! Join us on Thursday for the September ViCBiostat seminar on stat methods for registry-based trials.
September @vicbiostat.bsky.social seminar:
Camila Olarte Parra from @causalab.bsky.social Karolinska will speak on combining information from trial participants and non-participants in registry-based trials.
All welcome online 25 September.
More info:
www.vicbiostat.org.au/event/combin...
Camila Olarte Parra from @causalab.bsky.social Karolinska will speak on combining information from trial participants and non-participants in registry-based trials.
All welcome online 25 September.
More info:
www.vicbiostat.org.au/event/combin...
Combining information from trial participants and non-participants in registry-based trials
Even though the advantages of randomised tria
www.vicbiostat.org.au
September 23, 2025 at 8:27 PM
This week! Join us on Thursday for the September ViCBiostat seminar on stat methods for registry-based trials.
Lovely video from my work about the motivation behind research into gene therapy for Usher syndrome. youtu.be/4Km9jZh_X1A?...
Hope in Sight Giving Day 2025: Be a sport and help us end Usher syndrome
YouTube video by Centre for Eye Research Australia | CERA
youtu.be
September 19, 2025 at 5:50 AM
Lovely video from my work about the motivation behind research into gene therapy for Usher syndrome. youtu.be/4Km9jZh_X1A?...
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Join us at #atmc25 as we explore "Better Trials Through Better Methods"
Invited speakers and program details now available - more at www.atmc25.com
Secure your ticket today! Early🐦 must end 26/9
Invited speakers and program details now available - more at www.atmc25.com
Secure your ticket today! Early🐦 must end 26/9
September 10, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Join us at #atmc25 as we explore "Better Trials Through Better Methods"
Invited speakers and program details now available - more at www.atmc25.com
Secure your ticket today! Early🐦 must end 26/9
Invited speakers and program details now available - more at www.atmc25.com
Secure your ticket today! Early🐦 must end 26/9
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📢 Australian Trials Methodology Conference 2025
🗓 20 Nov | 📍Melbourne & Online via Zoom
Join leading speakers from academia, industry & healthcare.
🎟 Early-bird rates until 26 Sep!
🔗Register: atmc25.com
#ClinicalTrials #TrialMethodology #Biostatistics
@vicbiostat.bsky.social
🗓 20 Nov | 📍Melbourne & Online via Zoom
Join leading speakers from academia, industry & healthcare.
🎟 Early-bird rates until 26 Sep!
🔗Register: atmc25.com
#ClinicalTrials #TrialMethodology #Biostatistics
@vicbiostat.bsky.social
August 25, 2025 at 5:18 AM
📢 Australian Trials Methodology Conference 2025
🗓 20 Nov | 📍Melbourne & Online via Zoom
Join leading speakers from academia, industry & healthcare.
🎟 Early-bird rates until 26 Sep!
🔗Register: atmc25.com
#ClinicalTrials #TrialMethodology #Biostatistics
@vicbiostat.bsky.social
🗓 20 Nov | 📍Melbourne & Online via Zoom
Join leading speakers from academia, industry & healthcare.
🎟 Early-bird rates until 26 Sep!
🔗Register: atmc25.com
#ClinicalTrials #TrialMethodology #Biostatistics
@vicbiostat.bsky.social
September @vicbiostat.bsky.social seminar:
Camila Olarte Parra from @causalab.bsky.social Karolinska will speak on combining information from trial participants and non-participants in registry-based trials.
All welcome online 25 September.
More info:
www.vicbiostat.org.au/event/combin...
Camila Olarte Parra from @causalab.bsky.social Karolinska will speak on combining information from trial participants and non-participants in registry-based trials.
All welcome online 25 September.
More info:
www.vicbiostat.org.au/event/combin...
Combining information from trial participants and non-participants in registry-based trials
Even though the advantages of randomised tria
www.vicbiostat.org.au
August 11, 2025 at 7:13 AM
September @vicbiostat.bsky.social seminar:
Camila Olarte Parra from @causalab.bsky.social Karolinska will speak on combining information from trial participants and non-participants in registry-based trials.
All welcome online 25 September.
More info:
www.vicbiostat.org.au/event/combin...
Camila Olarte Parra from @causalab.bsky.social Karolinska will speak on combining information from trial participants and non-participants in registry-based trials.
All welcome online 25 September.
More info:
www.vicbiostat.org.au/event/combin...
We are looking forward to hearing @jonathan-bartlett.bsky.social speak on the G-formula for causal inference using synthetic multiple imputation at the July @vicbiostat.bsky.social seminar!
All welcome online Thursday 24th, 4:00pm Aus EST (7:00am UK time).
www.vicbiostat.org.au/event/g-form...
All welcome online Thursday 24th, 4:00pm Aus EST (7:00am UK time).
www.vicbiostat.org.au/event/g-form...
G-formula for causal inference using synthetic multiple imputation
G-formula is a popular approach for estimatin
www.vicbiostat.org.au
July 23, 2025 at 2:04 AM
We are looking forward to hearing @jonathan-bartlett.bsky.social speak on the G-formula for causal inference using synthetic multiple imputation at the July @vicbiostat.bsky.social seminar!
All welcome online Thursday 24th, 4:00pm Aus EST (7:00am UK time).
www.vicbiostat.org.au/event/g-form...
All welcome online Thursday 24th, 4:00pm Aus EST (7:00am UK time).
www.vicbiostat.org.au/event/g-form...
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🔍 Looking for your next big opportunity in Bayesian statistics? Join the team at Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity as a Research Assistant or Research Fellow in Bayesian analysis.
📍 Based in Melbourne | 💼 Apply now: unimelb.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/UoM_External...
📍 Based in Melbourne | 💼 Apply now: unimelb.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/UoM_External...
Research Assistant / Research Fellow in Bayesian Statistics
Role type: Full-time; Fixed-term for 2 years Faculty: Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences Department/School: Department of Infectious Diseases Salary: Level A – $85,555 to $116,094 (P...
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July 14, 2025 at 11:37 PM
🔍 Looking for your next big opportunity in Bayesian statistics? Join the team at Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity as a Research Assistant or Research Fellow in Bayesian analysis.
📍 Based in Melbourne | 💼 Apply now: unimelb.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/UoM_External...
📍 Based in Melbourne | 💼 Apply now: unimelb.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/UoM_External...
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🚨Join our team at the University of Melbourne as a RA/Research Fellow in Biostats. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to impactful public health research within a supportive and collaborative environment.
📅 Applications close: 28 July 2025
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📅 Applications close: 28 July 2025
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Methods and Implementation Support for Clinical and Health research Hub hiring Research Assistant / Research Fellow in Biostatistics in Parkville, Victoria, Australia | LinkedIn
Posted 3:25:23 AM. Role type: Full-time; Fixed-term for 12 months (maternity cover) Faculty: Faculty of Medicine…See this and similar jobs on LinkedIn.
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July 10, 2025 at 3:39 AM
🚨Join our team at the University of Melbourne as a RA/Research Fellow in Biostats. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to impactful public health research within a supportive and collaborative environment.
📅 Applications close: 28 July 2025
👉 lnkd.in/gCRhts9K
📅 Applications close: 28 July 2025
👉 lnkd.in/gCRhts9K
Great to see this work by John Carlin & @margaritamb.bsky.social on the uses and abuses of regression models finally published. @vicbiostat.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1002/sim....
doi.org/10.1002/sim....
Rejoinder to Commentaries on: On the Uses and Abuses of Regression Models: A Call for Reform of Statistical Practice and Teaching
Click on the article title to read more.
doi.org
June 26, 2025 at 6:29 AM
Great to see this work by John Carlin & @margaritamb.bsky.social on the uses and abuses of regression models finally published. @vicbiostat.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1002/sim....
doi.org/10.1002/sim....
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I'm looking for a senior research fellow or research fellow to join my group (the Cluster Cluster!) at Monash University, to develop statistical methodology of adaptive longitudinal cluster randomised trials. Come join us for 3 years in marvellous Melbourne! careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo...
May 26, 2025 at 9:22 PM
I'm looking for a senior research fellow or research fellow to join my group (the Cluster Cluster!) at Monash University, to develop statistical methodology of adaptive longitudinal cluster randomised trials. Come join us for 3 years in marvellous Melbourne! careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo...
Three cheers for compulsory voting. Hopefully that means the politicians care what we think. Democratic vibes are good in Dunkley this morning.
May 2, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Three cheers for compulsory voting. Hopefully that means the politicians care what we think. Democratic vibes are good in Dunkley this morning.
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NEW PAPER: Updated SPIRIT-2025 for reporting protocols of randomised trials is now available in the @BMJ.com, @JAMA.com, @thelancet.bsky.social, @PLoS.org, and @natmedicine.bsky.social.
—> www.bmj.com/content/389/...
#openscience #transparency #medsky #statssky #episky
—> www.bmj.com/content/389/...
#openscience #transparency #medsky #statssky #episky
April 29, 2025 at 5:59 AM
NEW PAPER: Updated SPIRIT-2025 for reporting protocols of randomised trials is now available in the @BMJ.com, @JAMA.com, @thelancet.bsky.social, @PLoS.org, and @natmedicine.bsky.social.
—> www.bmj.com/content/389/...
#openscience #transparency #medsky #statssky #episky
—> www.bmj.com/content/389/...
#openscience #transparency #medsky #statssky #episky
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🚨 Our popular two-part #Stata course is back — running virtually on May 6 & 7!
📊 Stata 1: mcri.edu.au/research/res...
📈 Stata 2: mcri.edu.au/research/res...
👉 Visit the links to register for a spot!
📊 Stata 1: mcri.edu.au/research/res...
📈 Stata 2: mcri.edu.au/research/res...
👉 Visit the links to register for a spot!
Stata 1 - Online and Classroom Mode - Murdoch Children's Research Institute
mcri.edu.au
April 24, 2025 at 1:28 AM
🚨 Our popular two-part #Stata course is back — running virtually on May 6 & 7!
📊 Stata 1: mcri.edu.au/research/res...
📈 Stata 2: mcri.edu.au/research/res...
👉 Visit the links to register for a spot!
📊 Stata 1: mcri.edu.au/research/res...
📈 Stata 2: mcri.edu.au/research/res...
👉 Visit the links to register for a spot!
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📊 Observational Studies: Modern Concepts & Analytic Methods
✍️This course provides a comprehensive introduction to key concepts for observational studies in clinical and health research
📅 Next online iteration: 19–23 May from 9 AM-1PM each day
🔗https://shorturl.at/CYDUB
✍️This course provides a comprehensive introduction to key concepts for observational studies in clinical and health research
📅 Next online iteration: 19–23 May from 9 AM-1PM each day
🔗https://shorturl.at/CYDUB
April 24, 2025 at 1:30 AM
📊 Observational Studies: Modern Concepts & Analytic Methods
✍️This course provides a comprehensive introduction to key concepts for observational studies in clinical and health research
📅 Next online iteration: 19–23 May from 9 AM-1PM each day
🔗https://shorturl.at/CYDUB
✍️This course provides a comprehensive introduction to key concepts for observational studies in clinical and health research
📅 Next online iteration: 19–23 May from 9 AM-1PM each day
🔗https://shorturl.at/CYDUB