With the unsurprising (temporary, I guess? See ACS) demise of the journal Enivronmental Health Perspectives under the current administration (side note: it's weird recognizing names. To wit, Joel Kaufman was in DEOHS while I was a student.), I decided to browse through it.
Campbell AM, Cabrera-Gumbau JM, Trinanes J, Baker-Austin C, Martinez-Urtaza J. Machine Learning Potential for Identifying and Forecasting Complex Environmental Drivers of Vibrio vulnificus Infections in the United States. Environ Health Perspect. 2025 Jan;133(1):17006. doi: 10.1289/EHP15593. Epub …
I was exposed to the concept of causal inference in the excellent
Statistical Rethinking series/book, by Richard McElreath. I suppose I had
been exposed to it indirectly via my scientific education, but not in the
formal sense of back-door criterion, etc. Anyway, I decided to try and
expand …
I found a paper about noise pollution in Portland. This was related to a job posting I saw by one of the authors. It is:
Mowrer, C., Larkin, A., Roscoe, C., Grady, S. T., Peters, J. L., Haggerty, B., Hystad, P., Bozigar, M. (2025) Systematic measurement and machine learning-based …
In going through that ill-fated analysis of Pennsylvania well water, I plotted the actual count data of (# of well users) in each census tract. There were an awful lot of zeroes: overall 46% of census tracts, more specifically 14% of rural and 59% of urban tracts. The histograms look …
I used the following clustering covariates: "EP_POV150", "EP_UNEMP",
"EP_NOHSDP", "EP_AGE65", "EP_AGE17", "EP_MINRTY", "EP_HBURD". These are the
Estimated …
This post expands on Part 3 -- specifically the
section concerning Outcome Approximations -- and begins preparing data for
analysis.
In this post, I will compare the estimation method used in the paper vs an
alternative, and then look at a few other published methods. The estimation is
for the
outcome …
This post continues from Part 3 and covers the
Bayesian profile regression model.
Bayesian Profile Regression
What Is It?
There were several resources I used to get a grasp on the method. Molitor et
al. 2 present kind of the founding proposal of the method, and this is a …