Postdoc biostatistician @CEBU_Melbourne @MCRI_for_kids @vicbiostat ★ @unimelb ★ causal inference and missing data problems in allergy and social epidemiology
Melbourne, Victoria
Joined October 2018
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Hot off the press! 📣📣In this tutorial we illustrate available multiple imputation approaches for handling longitudinal data including when they are clustered within higher level clusters. A reproducible example with R and Stata code provided! #OpenAccess onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/… – at Melbourne, Victoria
Incredibly honoured to receive the Rising Star Award at MCRI Staff Awards✨ Thank you to my mentors, especially @_MargaritaMB for championing the nomination, and to colleagues and collaborators @MCRI_for_kids who nominated me. Grateful to be part of such a supportive community! – at Melbourne, Victoria
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Registrations now open for the ViCBiostat Summer School - Feb 13-20, 2026 (Melbourne/online)!
Features courses by local and international experts in causal inference, estimands, meta-analysis and cluster RCTs
Info: vicbiostat.org.au/short-cour…
Register: trybooking.com/events/landin…
The ViCBiostat Summer School returns from 13-20 Feb 2026, in Melbourne and online.
Course topics include causal inference, cluster randomised trials, meta-analysis and the estimand framework.
Further details TBA - sign up to our mailing list via vicbiostat.org.au/
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NEW PAPER Published!!
Exciting news with our Causal machine learning (CML) and use of cross-fitting in settings with high-dimensional confounding paper now published!
Great team work, @SVansteelandt, John Carlin and @_MargaritaMB
doi.org/10.1002/sim.70272
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Awarded every two years by @Science_Academy, the Moran Medal honours outstanding Australian scientists in statistics & related fields. Huge congratulations to our Co-Director @_MargaritaMB on receiving this prestigious award — a truly well-deserved recognition! 🎉🥳 #WomenInSTEM
A few weeks ago I went to Canberra to receive the Moran Medal at the lovely Shine Dome of the Australian @Science_Academy. It was a huge honour, and wonderful to hear talks from all corners of science and to learn about the Academy's great work supporting science - pics below!
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A new #MCRI-led systematic review has found oral immunotherapy for #children with #foodallergies leads to improved quality of life a year on from discontinuing treatment due to having achieved remission. #Allergy
👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
@NACEresearch @CRE_CFAR @PopAllergy
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NEW PAPER! (in press in EPIDEMIOLOGY)
Have you wondered:
- How to specify a target trial: as an ideal trial or something else?
- What biases do target trial emulations and actual RCTs share?
- How does it all relate to potential outcomes?
Read👉arxiv.org/abs/2405.10026
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NOW PUBLISHED! Featured article + 6 Commentaries + Rejoinder: “On the Uses and Abuses of Regression Models: A Call for Reform of Statistical Practice and Teaching” with my colleague John Carlin
tinyurl.com/2z2tmkhh
@CEBU_Melbourne @vicbiostat #epitwitter #causaltwitter
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🚨New method alert! So excited to see our group’s work led by Tong Chen with now available as an R package 📦
A powerful tool for estimating intervention effects through **multiple mediators**—with real examples to guide you!
Check it out ⬇️ #epitwitter #causaltwitter #rstats
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Recording of my talk @CAUSALab on using m-DAGs to guide the treatment of missing data now available 👇 #epitwitter
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Looking forward to speaking at the CAUSALab methods seminar series next week! 👇
2 weeks away!
Margarita Moreno-Betancur @_MargaritaMB (@MCRI_for_kids @UniMelb) continues the 2025 Methods Series @karolinskainst.
📆 April 22, 2025
⏰ 13.00 CEST/7.00 ET
📍 All Methods Series talks virtual
Register now 👇
stats.sender.net/forms/e7JD1…
#publichealth
ALT Margarita Moreno-Betancur April 22 Methods Series talk, "Using missingness directed acyclic graphs (m-DAGs) to depict assumptions and guide the choice of method for handling missing data."
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Register now to avoid missing these three great courses!
vicbiostat.org.au/short-cour…
@_MargaritaMB @jonathanasterne @Katherine_J_Lee @JiaxinZhang96 @MK_Middleton @CEBU_Melbourne
@Katherine_J_Lee @_MargaritaMB @IanWhit25399993 @stats_q @vicbiostat @CEBU_Melbourne – at Melbourne, Victoria
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Tutorials in Biostatistics
Multiple Imputation for Longitudinal Data: A Tutorial. Rushani Wijesuriya, Margarita Moreno-Betancur, John B. Carlin, Ian R. White, Matteo Quartagno, Katherine J. Lee. Statistics in Medicine. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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Our research methods and software training course timetable for 2025 is out! check it out here: mcri.edu.au/research/researc… @MCRI_for_kids @MACHAustralia @AustralianData
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👏👏We are very proud of our teaching superstar @AnurikaDeSilva for receiving the @UniMelb David White Award for Teaching Excellence - so very well deserved! 🥳
go.unimelb.edu.au/rmk8
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Registration is now open for our 2025 Summer School!
10-14 Feb
All courses running hybrid in person at @Monash_SPHPM and online via Zoom
See full details on our website
vicbiostat.org.au/short-cour…
@CEBU_Melbourne @MischHub
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NEW PAPER! "Causal inference in multi-cohort studies using the target trial framework to identify and minimize sources of bias" led by Marnie Downes
@CEBU_Melbourne @vicbiostat @LifeCourseAU
Check it out 👇academic.oup.com/aje/advance…
#EpiTwitter #causalinference #Stats
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🚀And we're off...with Prof Kate Lee @CEBU_Melbourne presenting on everything you need to know about Adaptive and Platform Trials for the MACH #EMCR network - the recording will be available on the @MACHAustralia website post-webinar
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"Higher exposure to air pollution does increase the risk of developing a food allergy." #MCRI's A/Prof Rachel Peters has spoken to @ABCaustralia about how pollution in Melbourne contributes to peanut allergy in children. | @DrRachelPeters @CRE_CFAR @NACEresearch
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