The Effective Statistician - in association with PSI

Principal stratification used to play a role only in observational research but at least since the addendum of the ICH E9 guideline, this approach to causal inference became a hot topic.

Yves and I have worked together in various roles. Over time, he became more interested in becoming a statistician and I helped him to change his career path in this direction.

Today, we are talking about Taylor Swift and visualizations. Does it seem like a very unreasonable thing? I thought so as well but then I read this interesting LinkedIn post where I laughed hard but it really made sense!

What's in it for statisticians and data scientists? Design thinking is an interesting topic and is becoming more popular these days. I found out about it on LinkedIn and it's where I met Victoria.

What do you do if you need something from someone at work, but - You have never talked to this person ever before - This person doesn’t know you - The person is very protective about the thing you need - You have only 15 minutes to convince her

Stephen is a really interesting person. He is the author of The Art of Action and has a background in consulting and history. Based on this knowledge, he wrote a couple of books about history and leadership. In terms of leadership, there's an area that overlooked usually from the business. However, business can learn a lot from this area. I'm talking about the military space as armies were the big...

How does understanding the bigger picture helps you to be more productive and to be more influential at work? How can this help you sell your work to your supervisors? How can you fit your work with others work? How can you easily understand where others are coming from? Throughout the leadership program, this topic comes up again and again. We spend quite a lot of time talking about how you can b...

If you enjoyed the last book review, you'll surely enjoy this one as well. This is much more practical than the last one. Getting to Yes is a very fundamental book that everybody should read. It was fundamental for me early in my career as it helped me through many negotiations throughout my career.

Do you feel overwhelmed by all the tasks? Do you think you are missing to get the big things done as you are drowning in day-to-day work? Are you frustrated about going home in the evenings feeling like you have not accomplished what you wanted?

Why do we need to innovate? What are the drivers for innovation? How much time would you invest in something if it made an awful task more bearable? I really enjoyed this interview with Mike as we talked about his award-winning presentation.

Napoleon Hill is an interesting author and quite controversial but still good content to reflect upon. In this episode, I want to reflect on: Why people fail in their careers? What hinders us from getting to the career goal set we have? How can we avoid doing the same thing in our own life?

Do you currently run an initiative? Do you want to get support or budget for an initiative? Do you want to change the design or analyses of a study? Do you need to run it past a committee or a senior person? In this episode, I talk about the 4 important advice if you want to engage with key people in your organization

Today, I am talking about a topic that is very close to my heart. I want us, statisticians, to have an impact. I truly believe that if we make better decisions in our day-to-day jobs in our companies and organizations, then we can truly have a much bigger impact on the overall success of these organizations.

Why do you need personal leadership principles? How can you refine and reflect them? What kind of leader do you want to be? Is it possible to be a leader even without a title? I will talk about personal leadership today and this is not being a leader by position, but by principle.

To give you an update, I'll be sharing with you what I have learned from the past year about visualization as I worked a lot of these - the exploratory and explanatory visualization.

What are typical meetings you would be invited to as a statistician? - Study meeting - Project meetings - Team meetings

What can we do about indirect comparisons to make it better and more efficient rather than using the usual technique? What are the indirect comparisons in terms of the efficacy of different drugs? What experiences have you had when the type of one-to-one approach is better?

How are safety analyses different from efficacy analyses? What does validation and quality control mean for interactive visualization? Over recent years, a lot of interesting things happened around safety analyses and visualization. They help us to better understand our safety data and detect safety signals. Wei and colleagues have recently published an article about these topics.

Have you ever thought of having an additional or changing career? What are the things you must prepare for when considering this? Today, we interview Lucy on how can statisticians create an impact beyond statistics. Lucy has a very inspiring career, and she has started as a statistician and got further responsibilities.

For your career, have you ever thought about what mindset you should adapt to? What do you think marks a “successful” career? What will help you understand in which direction your career should go? Diana Stuart, who is a Senior Manager in programming, shares with us her thoughts, lessons, and her vast experience in this field and what we can do to create a robust career with all the surrounding ch...

Given the pandemic, this episode comes timely as it's a challenge to manage time while working at home. But even after the pandemic, this challenge of getting most out of your time will not end.

Were there times you think about creating something bigger than what you currently have? Are you equipped and confident enough to start implementing strategies and plans for future service enhancement?

Imagine you need to choose a comparator for a head-to-head study. How do we usually approach it? - Debate - Meetings - More meetings with other stakeholders - Creating a slide deck - Revising the slide deck - Getting into time pressure - Getting conflicting feedback - Let’s just make a recommendation and find the data that supports this

Have you been sitting through boring presentations? Have you felt that the presenter lost the audience in seconds? Have you found yourself after a presentation thinking - so what? When you are presenting, you don't want the audience to feel this way. But how can you deliver a knock-out presentation and wow the audience?