Sarah Van Alsten

Epi PhD student @UNC studying breast cancer recurrence 👩🏻‍💻 Lover of stats puns, ice cream, and exploring the world by bike. 🚴🏻‍♀️ she/her

[Sarah Van Alsten @alsten_van]

Family: ok, you can help decorate the cookies this year. Just promise you’ll make them normal.

Me: Shoot. I’m afraid I’ve made them right skewed. #statstwitter

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@MelissaTroester Thanks Melissa! Forever thankful to be part of the Hoadster lab :)

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@BaselessPursuit @Tfeend You and your daughter

[Sarah Van Alsten @alsten_van]

Friendly reminder that "THE" effect is rarely (if ever) a thing!
#epitwitter

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@jaimiegradus Wait- you do realize the tiles and numbers go on randomly? You don’t have to set the up looking exactly like the template in the instructions 😂

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The Table 2 Fallacy. #epitwitter

[Sarah Van Alsten @alsten_van]

Do I even remember what it’s supposed to do? Also- you guessed it- no.

[Kyle🤖🚀🦭 @KyleMorgenstein]

is my code fast? no. but is it well documented? no. but does it work? also no.

[Sarah Van Alsten @alsten_van]

Honestly, can I even get mad at predatory publishers when they address me as “Dr.” already?

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@jenineharris Thank you!

[Sarah Van Alsten @alsten_van]

1: Hot off the virtual presses from myself and @jenineharris where we investigate the association between not being able to afford medication and mortality in US adults with chronic conditions🥳: https://t.co/2nW3H4cSM4

[Sarah Van Alsten @alsten_van]

"There are never enough hours in the day"- she whispers to herself whilst fiddling with the ggplot color scheme for the thousandth time that day.

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The moment we've all been waiting for!

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Finally, just be there. Listen if your loved one is struggling, but don't make the entire day about checking in on how they're doing re:food. Distractions are great! Board games, movies, walking the dog, whatever.... start a new tradition! 6/6

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It being that time of year again, here's my obligatory thread about how to have an #EatingDisorder friendly Thanksgiving (with special considerations for this year's, ummm, *different* one: 1/n

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We get you may not have seen people in a while. Okay greetings are "It's so good to see you!" "I'm happy you're here!". Not okay greetings include comments about weight (loss/gain/maintenance), and generally appearance (but this varies, so if in doubt, ASK first) 5/n

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@Tfeend In Verse: Probably.
Weighting Estimates makes more
Intuitive sense.

[Sarah Van Alsten @alsten_van]

Good evening to all methods of controlling for confounding except standardization