Request for Information: Synthetic Datasets

Share how you validate synthetic data as a proxy for the real data

Nov 14 • 

Manjari Narayan

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Misunderstandings between empirical and theoretical scientists

The Poincaré-Lippman gap is an implicit problem in biomedical research when empirical scientists borrow mathematical tools.

Nov 13 • 

Manjari Narayan

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October 2025

Neurostats Digest #5

Notes round up on theoretical psychiatry, causal inference, and understanding papers

Oct 15 • 

Manjari Narayan

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August 2025

Biomarker Qualification

Qualification is to regulators what validation is to scientists

Aug 18 • 

Manjari Narayan

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July 2025

Intercurrent Events

Do you really know what your clinical trial says?

Jul 30 • 

Manjari Narayan

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May 2025

Neurostats Digest #4

Methodological reductions, primitive epistemic status of biomarkers

May 31 • 

Manjari Narayan

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April 2025

Neurostats Digest #3

Statistical transformations, virtual twins, progress in methodological discovery

Apr 30 • 

Manjari Narayan

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January 2025

Neurostats Digest #2

Select links and reading on regulatory science, free energy principle, vitamin-D interventions, preterm birth interventions

Jan 31 • 

Manjari Narayan

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December 2024

Sewall Wright and John Tukey on Path Analysis in 1952

Papers from a symposium at The Biometrics Society (ENAR) Conference in 1952 at Iowa State College; Relevant to the history of causal inference.

Dec 2, 2024 • 

Manjari Narayan

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November 2024

Neurostats Digest #1

Select reading and links on AI, counterfactual thinking, biomarkers, and clinical neuroscience

Nov 22, 2024 • 

Manjari Narayan

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Paper: Empirical Research in Machine Learning

Quick take on Herrmann, M. et al. (2024) ‘Position: Why We Must Rethink Empirical Research in Machine Learning’, International Conference on Machine…

Nov 4, 2024 • 

Manjari Narayan

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August 2024

Sometimes causal effect estimators don't provide evidence of causal effects

And one of the myriad reasons why you shouldn't trust that new neuroscience paper with causal in the title.

Aug 31, 2024 • 

Manjari Narayan

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