Tom Plunkett

Health economist

[Vincent Geloso @VincentGeloso]

Here is a decent summary of the advantages and disadvantages of many tools in causal inference (taken from Valentelyte et al. (2021) #econtwitter cc. @causalinf @ez_angus @_WagnerG_

https://t.co/OjoEYPbgdA

[Michelle Escobar @MEscobarCarias]

Together we competed in today's #3MT @MonashBusiness round and they were all amazing 🙌

I am also humbled and grateful to have been chosen the winner of this round 🙈😅

So thankful to my supervisors and PhD friends @CHE_Monash for helping me practice ❤️❤️❤️

[James Larkin @LarkinJames]

🚨Publication 🚨
We contacted almost every pharmacy in Ireland asking for prices of commonly prescribed drugs and found:

-Large variation in prices: top 10% most expensive pharmacies can be over 2x more expensive than the 10% cheapest pharmacies
💊💊💊
https://t.co/yc8AE7O7xm

[Alan Baxter ♛ @AlanBixter]

If for no other reason, this is why you must not vote the Liberal Party back into power:
“In a single line item [in the latest budget], the Morrison government defunded Australia’s national prescribing service, NPS MedicineWise (NPS). /2

[Tom Plunkett @tsplunks]

@Giovanni_Empel Hope you feel better soon!

[Clare Fitzgerald @clare_jf]

Patrick McHale of #novartis giving us an overview of gene therapies. So far this #webinar on 'The Challenges of Precision Medicine' has given so much food for thought! @ISPORVicTas @HealthEconNUIG #genetherapy #Pharmaceuticals

[@epijohn.bsky.social @_JohnE_]

#PrecisionMedicine may offer improved Tx options tailored for the individual patient – but what are the challenges of #HEOR?

The @nuigalway ISPOR student chapter & @ISPORVicTas will hold a #free webinar on 22Feb to discuss this in the context of #Ireland & #Australia

Register👇

[Nick HK @nickchk]

Planning a short video for students on how filepaths work. Planning to include:

1. Filepaths on your computer vs. URLs on the internet
2. Relative vs. absolute filepaths
3. Working directories
4. Filepaths in your code
5. Navigating folders with ../ etc.

Anything I should add?

[John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch]

NEW: people worry when they hear "40% of hospitalisations are fully vaxxed", but this chart shows that's actually good news.

The more people you vaccinate, the higher their share of hospitalisations, but the *total* number in hospital is a fraction of what it would otherwise be

[Centre for Health Economics-Monash Business School @CHE_Monash]

Good times had today at our end of year celebration at the Zoo!

[Khoa Vu @KhoaVuUmn]

Hire this guy to be in charge of the US public health communication.

[Ben Elsner @ben_elsner]

#EconTwitter Public Good Alert: I have created an online course in #causalinference (my 2020 lockdown project). The course is based on Mostly Harmless Econometrics and @causalinf 's Mixtape, and covers basics of canonical research designs (IV, RDD, DiD, SC) 1/2

[Karan Menon @TheKaranMenon]

The Omnicron variant is just another example of how COVID will be prolonged if rich nations and Big Pharma keep blocking vaccine distribution.

[Tom Plunkett @tsplunks]

@volyhoaivinh @TracyComans28 @KimHuong79 @UQ_CHSR @JenniferWhitty3 Congratulations!

[Christine Cai² @Christine_Cai27]

🚨 Curious about recent advances on applied micro methods 🤓? I'm sharing a doc that I've put together and that lists a bunch of papers such advances. Suggestions are welcome! 🚨
👉 https://t.co/QjegvgUcMK 👈

#EconTwitter #PublicGoods #AppliedMicro #Econometrics

[Jan Kabátek 🇺🇦 Bsky: @jankabatek.com @JanKabatek]

In case you're interested, I wrote a bunch of visualization programs tailored for admin data analysis in Stata.
https://t.co/uiWEnD5USj

The syntax is a bit quirky, but the code is fast and efficient, requiring little time and memory compared to Stata's native graphing commands.

[Tom Plunkett @tsplunks]

@JeremyGreaves6 @AtomicWallet @solana Thanks! Will do

[Jan Kabátek 🇺🇦 Bsky: @jankabatek.com @JanKabatek]

Okay, so this @Stata tip is a big deal for admin data workflows:

As of version 16, Stata allows you to hold 𝗺𝘂𝗹𝘁𝗶𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗮𝘀𝗲𝘁𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗺𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗮𝘁 𝗼𝗻𝗰𝗲. This is done using the command 'frame':

sysuse auto, clear
frame create fr1
frame fr1: sysuse bplong