The Effective Statistician - in association with PSI

In this episode, we talk about non-clinical research and development and how statisticians contribute to these efforts. Join us while we talk about the following important phases of R&D.

What is non-clinical pharmaceutical statistics?

Data visualization is at the heart of what we are doing (or should be doing) as statisticians. It moved from being a side topic a couple of years ago into a central part of the PSI conference in 2021. The upcoming PSI conference features 2 data visualization expert from the Financial Times as keynote speakers in addition to an interactive training and a contributed session about data visualization...

Let's welcome Sam Gardner as our new co-host for our podcast show!

Everybody talks about AI, but where are the actual use cases? In the episode today, I'm talking with Dooti Roy about AiCure. AiCure uses an easy-to-use, proprietary AI platform to directly engage and provide support to patients via smartphones to deliver meaningful, high-quality data around patient behavior.

As the pandemic continues to affect the community’s ability to meet in-person, virtual conferences adapt and develop to create space for companies. Now, there is much more emphasis on virtual settings, and there are many new tools available to improve the virtual conference experience.

Are you a master's student or just graduated from a university? What is the Graduate Training Programme? How is the training conducted? What happens after the programme? Veramed's graduate training programme aims to smooth the transition from graduate to effective member of a clinical biostatistics team. The comprehensive 12 week syllabus equips you with relevant skills and knowledge so that by th...

For today's episode, Qiqi and I talk about BI-UConn Summer Academy, an initiative we started 3 years ago to help students understand and learn the world of clinical development better and bring them networking opportunities. This hybrid academy is open to both UCOnn students and students outside of UConn. It's sponsored by Boehringer Ingelheim.

Do you have a great idea you want to move forward and you need others to buy in? Maybe you want to improve a process or implement a new analysis approach. Your business partner might be your study team or your supervisor. Whenever, we want to change something, we usually need others to agree into the next steps.

Aiden has first worked on simulations during studying statistics to understand which sample sizes lead to sufficient performance of statistics, which are only asymptotically normal. It helped him in many situations, in which it was difficult to tackle a problem analytically. Simulations help us understand very complex situations, and the development of new treatments is surely a very complex topic...

We designed this program for statisticians and data scientist to strengthen your leadership skills so you can maximize your impact at work even if you don’t have direct reports. The Effective Statistician Leadership Program, a modular program of self-learning parts and moderated small group discussions, helps all statisticians and data scientists. It especially takes into account the needs of phar...

Clubhouse is a new social media platform that is audio only and only works on iOS or iPhones for now, but it will be available for Android phones in 5 months. Just like in any other social media platform, you can also grow your network here and speak with each other. You can only join a Clubhouse room if you receive an invitation. So, head over to LinkedIn and follow me to get the notification pos...

Do you sometimes feel that you disrupt your own happiness and success? Are you overworked to make sense of yourself? Do your emotions often control you? Stuart and I got a recommendation to read a book entitled "The Chimp Paradox: The Acclaimed Mind Management". This book is an incredibly powerful mind management model that can help you become a happy, confident, healthier, and more successful per...

In today's episode, we're talking with a niche part of clinical research many statisticians never get actively involved in: DMCs. David Kerr comes with a deep knowledge and long experience in this setting. We'll speak about: What is a DMC? What is the role of a DMC statistician? What are the best skills and traits of the DMC statistician

The knowledge about the bias variance trade off is very important for you as a statistician as it comes across your work - especially exploratory work - all the time. Taking care about it will help you avoid problems of over- or underfitting your models.

Jenny has encountered several highly competent people throughout her career who have admitted that they entered one path or another based on certain assumptions that were not entirely correct. Further, she has talked with interns about their future career interests and she sees them teetering on the edges of some same fallacies. It’s all fun and science until you have to get a job. As you will mak...

The COVID-19 pandemic has put pharmaceutical research firmly into the spotlight, with the urgent need to develop new therapies, tests, and vaccines. For those outside the industry, hearing announcements in the mainstream media, it is not always easy to understand the intensity of the work and collaboration that fuels game-changing new developments. However, we know that there are thousands of ‘uns...

Should we oversimplify statistics, or should managers learn more about statistics? If you've been working as a statistician for a while, you know that you have to keep it simple if you want managers to understand you. Of course, I speak about those managers not being statisticians themselves. There are a lot of ways to explain statistical concepts to them, but this adds time to the presentation. S...

Outside of statistics departments, we are often seen as tactical and operational implementers. This branding makes it hard for statisticians to be included in strategic discussions. This limits our ability to influence the organizations and projects. It can even lead to entire departments being outsourced or not appropriately funded because of this terrible reputation. I'm long on a journey to fig...

Our job as statisticians focuses primarily on the analysis and communication of uncertainty in its many aspects. For this episode, I think of uncertainty as the variability in the population we are studying, the uncertainty around estimates, or the model uncertainty, which we might capture via looking into various models.

What is change management? Is it only something for big corporate initiatives or does it also apply to smaller changes? Why does it require so much consideration? What's hard about change? Change management is something I never thought about being interesting for statisticians, but recently, I needed to dive in to this frequently. I learned that this helps me when creating new designs or processes...

Knowledge sharing is close to my heart and Nelson, who is a very knowledgeable statistician, has shared a lot of articles in LinkedIn and on his website. Nelson has always been keen to learn from others and share that knowledge broadly, so we'll be exploring similarities and differences in how he's seen that be achieved in different circumstances.

Do you want to review a data visualization effectively? Do you want to provide your organization with a simple tool to improve your data visualizations? Do you need a checklist for yourself to make sure you covered everything for your data visualization? This episode is for you!

Do you want to review a data visualization effectively? Do you want to provide your organization with a simple tool to improve your data visualizations? Do you need a checklist for yourself to make sure you covered everything for your data visualization? This episode is for you!