Bryan Blette

Current postdoc at @PennMedicine and @PennCausal | Biostat Ph.D. from @UNCpublichealth | Views are my own.

[Bryan Blette @BryanBlette]

@bhattac_a_bt @MDAndersonNews Congrats!

[Michael Harhay @Michael_Harhay]

In a beautiful bookend to his time w/ us at @PennCausal, @BryanBlette is presenting our new @LancetRespirMed article on surrogate outcomes in pulmonary hypertension at @ATS_PC today!

Most proud that we got these figures into a Lancet journal!!

@FanLi90

https://t.co/Y6J1vb3niR

[Bryan Blette @BryanBlette]

@RobinBlythe5 @Michael_Harhay @andersgranholm @msh_manu @AndersPerner @FanLi90 @INCEPTdk Thanks! "Causal BART" is essentially a fancy way of saying we did g-computation, but used BART to model the outcome process as flexibly as possible. Some great work pioneered by Jennifer Hill and others on this framework. We also used trial data with a randomized treatment

[Bryan Blette @BryanBlette]

Suchi was the first person most incoming UNC biostat students would meet after enrolling. A kind soul who really cared about students and made sure they were set up for success in the beginning of the grad program

My condolences to his family

[UNC Biostatistics @uncbiostat]

With great sadness we share the passing of Dr. Chirayath Suchindran, our beloved Suchi.
https://t.co/VzSrDsS3sM

[Bryan Blette @BryanBlette]

Excited to be joining the faculty at @vandy_biostat later this year!

Many thanks to my mentors at UNC and Penn over the last several years for helping me grow as a scientist. Looking forward to continuing my research at Vanderbilt and starting new collaborations!

[Penn @Penn]

Best of December 2022: The University will raise the minimum Ph.D. stipend to $38,000, beginning in the coming 2023-24 academic year, the largest one-time increase in Penn’s history.
https://t.co/jX5hNlbNrL

[NEJM Evidence @NEJMEvidence]

Original Article: “A Bayesian Interpretation of a Pediatric Cardiac Arrest Trial (THAPCA-OH),” by Michael O. Harhay, PhD, et al. https://t.co/aV1yMSwoTe

#CardioTwitter #CriticalCare #PedsICU #Tweetiatricians #PedsTwitter #MedTwitter #ClinicalTrials

[Bryan Blette @BryanBlette]

@LucyStats

[Bryan Blette @BryanBlette]

@LucyStats Oh interesting. You should expand this into a simulation paper on "How much (non-structural) positivity violation is too much" if not already done. I think maybe only has been done for the corresponding problem in the discrete setting

[Bryan Blette @BryanBlette]

@LucyStats But if you increase number of simulations rather than n, it still might look to have decent performance under certain mild positivity violations? But not sure tbh

[Bryan Blette @BryanBlette]

@LucyStats No I was surprised too the first time. I guess it's logical, but it's not really talked about

There's also a nuance between positivity as written (which holds here because normal distributions have infinite support) and positivity in finite data (which wouldn't hold for any n)

[Bryan Blette @BryanBlette]

@LucyStats Running simulations made me realize how much stronger the positivity assumption is for the continuous exposure setting than it is for binary exposures!

[Observational Studies @ObservStudies]

Observational Studies is excited to announce our new special issue "Rebels with a Cause: Monologues from Heckman, Pearl, Robins, and Rubin": https://t.co/W1uipH5VKr
These fascinating monologues are followed by insightful perspectives by Didelez, Mealli, and Tchetgen Tchetgen

[Rebecca Hubbard @RhubbBstat]

Spread the word! Seeking a biostat or bioinformatics post-doc to work with me and @blancahimes on EHR-based asthma research:
https://t.co/JpJBYnPdOE

[Bryan Blette @BryanBlette]

@tmorris_mrc @annloh @oscar_olvera100 @ProfGroenwold Would be cool if a stats journal did a special issue calling for these

[UNC Biostatistics @uncbiostat]

Is Carolina on your mind? @UNCpublichealth #Gillings #UNCbios MAPS -Mentorship & Advice for Prospective Students Program support mentorship to master's and doctoral applicants. https://t.co/FBXhTFerCC

[Bryan Blette @BryanBlette]

@UNCpublichealth Just to clarify, is the global mortality rate expected to increase by 60% because of hot nights, or is the rate of mortality-attributed-to-hot-nights expected to increase by 60%?

[Bryan Blette @BryanBlette]

Oops the talk is actually at 2:25PM and I forgot the #JSM2022

[Bryan Blette @BryanBlette]

Looking forward to first JSM in person since 2019. I'll be presenting "Addressing Confounding and Continuous Exposure Measurement Error Using Conditional Score Functions" today at 2:20PM in Room CC-201