Upcoming livestreamed talks

On Dec 1st 2021, at 16:00UTC, I will give a talk hosted by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine called Shall We Count the Living or the Dead?, in which I will discuss the Switch Relative Risk and its intellectual history. I plan to go into more detail about the arguments I have been making on this blog, and explain very clearly why I consider Sheps’ preferred variant of the relative risk to be preferred over other measures of effect. The talk will of course give appropriate credit to everyone who has independently rediscovered this idea over the course of the last 64 years. The talk will be livestreamed at https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/events/series/centre-statistical-methodology

Then, on Feb 2nd at 3pm UTC, I will give a joint talk with Rhian Daniel and Daniel Farewell at the Berlin Epidemiology Methods Colloquium, to launch our joint work (with Mats Julius Stensrud) about Regression by Composition (RBC), a flexible generalization of general linear models. Rhian has previously talked about some aspects of this work at her keynote presentation at the World Congress of Epidemiology, but this will be the first complete explanation of how these models work. One of the many advantages of RBC models, is that this framework admits some models that have no GLM form, including models based on the Switch Relative Risk. This therefore allows regressions models that are consistent with Sheps’ advice. A link to the stream will be posted at https://bemcolloquium.com/meetings-calendar/