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Margarita Moreno-Betancur

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Professor of Biostats, Co-Director @CEBU_Melbourne, Investigator Grant Fellow @nhmrc. @unimelb, @MCRI_for_kids, @vicbiostat. On Bluesky margaritamb.bsky.social
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Margarita Moreno-Betancur @_MargaritaMB
NEW PAPER! (in press in EPIDEMIOLOGY)

Have you wondered:
- How to specify a target trial: as an ideal trial or something else?
- What biases do target trial emulations and actual RCTs share?
- How does it all relate to potential outcomes?

Read👉arxiv.org/abs/2405.10026
arxiv.org The ideal trial: defining causal estimands that balance relevance... Causal inference is the goal of randomized trials and many observational studies. The first step in a formal causal inference framework is to define the causal estimand, and in both types of study...
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Margarita Moreno-Betancur @_MargaritaMB
ViCBiostat Summer School: Register now below so you don’t miss out on e.g. Eric Tchetgen Tchetgen’s causal inference course covering a range of topics in “quasi-experimental” approaches: difference-in-differences, instrumental variables, synthetic controls etc. #EpiTwitter
🚨 Registrations now open! 🚨
The ViCBiostat Summer School (Feb 13–20, 2026) is a fantastic opportunity to learn from leading local & international experts in causal inference, estimands, meta-analysis, and cluster RCTs.

📍 Melbourne / Online

Links below 👇
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Margarita Moreno-Betancur @_MargaritaMB
Registrations now open for the ViCBiostat Summer School - Feb 13-20, 2026 (Melbourne/online)!

Features courses by local and international experts in causal inference, estimands, meta-analysis and cluster RCTs

Info: vicbiostat.org.au/short-courses
Register: trybooking.com/events/landing…
www.vicbiostat.org.au Short Courses
ViCBiostat @vicbiostat Nov 12, 2025
The ViCBiostat Summer School returns from 13-20 Feb 2026, in Melbourne and online.

Course topics include causal inference, cluster randomised trials, meta-analysis and the estimand framework.

Further details TBA - sign up to our mailing list via vicbiostat.org.au
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