Friends Let Friends Do Mediation Analysis with Nima Hejazi | Season 5 Episode 7

Nima Hejazi is an assistant professor in biostatistics at Harvard University. His methodological work often draws upon tools and ideas from semi- and non-parametric inference, high-dimensional and large-scale inference, targeted or debiased machine learning (e.g., targeted minimum loss estimation, method of sieves), and computational statistics.
• Surprised by the Hot Hand Fallacy? A Truth in the Law of Small Numbers by Joshua B. Miller & Adam Sanjurjo: jstor.org/stable/44955325

• Nima is on Twitter/X as @nshejazi (twitter.com/nshejazi) and my academic webpage is nimahejazi.org

• Recent translational review paper (intended for the infectious disease science community) I was involved in describing some causal/statistical frameworks for evaluating immune markers as mediators / surrogate endpoints: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38458870

• The tlverse software ecosystem is on GitHub at github.com/tlverse and the tlverse handbook is freely available at tlverse.org/tlverse-handbook

• Dr. Hejazi annually co-teaches a causal mediation analysis workshop at SER, and notes from the latest offering are freely available at codex.nimahejazi.org/ser2023_mediation_workshop

Follow along on Twitter:
• The American Journal of Epidemiology: @AmJEpi

• Ellie: @EpiEllie

• Lucy: @LucyStats

🎶 Our intro/outro music is courtesy of Joseph McDade
Edited by Cameron Bopp (cambopp.com)