The Effective Statistician - in association with PSI

Interview with Claude Petit We talked about the following points: What got you interested in leadership? What means leadership to you? Why is leadership important for us statisticians? What would a statistics organisation look like, if it would be very strong in leadership? How can we build such an organisation of statistical leaders? What's your #1 tip to become a statistical leader?

Interview with Sree Kurup In this episode, we talked about the following points: What is the role of a pharmacometrician in the development of drugs? Besides statistics - what other functions do pharmacometricians work closely together with? Where are the touchpoints of pharmacometricians and statisticians? What is your experience of how both functions can work best together? and more…

Some of the input data is missing for some studies. How do you deal with these missings - just exclude them? You compare many treatments with each other in a pairwise way. How do you best communicate this large matrix of pairwise comparisons? You need to adapt your NMA last minute because there was a delay in the system and your systematic literature search became outdated. Do you need to postpone the launch of the new product by a couple of weeks? You got regulatory approval for a new indication earlier than expected. While the regulatory team celebrates the achievement you worry that you need to have your NMA ready 3 months earlier. Will you be able to deliver? We discuss these and many more problems of NMAs. If you would like to get help around these, write an email to alexander@theeffectivestatistician.com or contact me via LinkedIn.

with Jenny Devenport Why do non-statisticians need training in what they're interested in and why do they need to understand statistics? Why is a multi-channel approach really needed? What can we learn about the importance of the interactions between statistician trainers and non-statistician trainees? When conducting training, how must we decide what topics to cover by including what questions to ask? Listen to this episode and share this with your friends and colleagues!

Webinar with Emma Adams Listen to this webinar while Emma and I talk about exploring the resulting recruitment challenges in a post-pandemic world within Life Sciences as a sector, also specifically within statistics across the UK and Europe. We confront recruitment challenges, as well as taking a thorough analysis into what Statisticians want—how to hire and how to keep top talent.  

Interview with Anders Berglund ``` We discuss the following points: What brought Anders into RWE What makes Nordic countries special when it comes to health system? What are some key success factors of the Nordic health system? What kind of population registers are there? and more… Reference: Epistat Nordic Registries ```

Interview with Heather Melius We also talk about the following points: How have you learned about the concept of your personal board of directors?Why should we have one?What worked and didn’t work as you built your own board?Do you have an example of where this board helped you?How does it evolve over time? References: 4 Steps to build your personal directorsEveryone needs a personal board of directorsPersonal board of directors Listen to this episode and share this with your friends and colleagues who might learn from it!

In today's episode, Benjamin and I review 9 mistakes we often see during presentations. We'll talk about: Start with an introduction of yourself Wordy slides Monotonous Not speaking to the audience Hiding on stageReading from the slides Not creating emotions Too much content Bad ending  If you want to learn more about how to improve your presentation skills, enroll into the presentation course of The Effective Statistician: Winning with Words and Graphs: The Effective Statistician presentation and data visualization masterclass In this online, on-demand program, you will: Learn the fundamentals of preparing and delivering an engaging, impactful presentation including the five questions you need to answer for ANY presentation (and the one you should avoid)Understand the three keys to creating powerful, clear visuals and be aware of the most common mistakesHear real industry examples and experiences that demonstrate and reinforce key presentation and visualization conceptsImprove one of your own presentations (past or current) that will serve as an application of these tools and concepts Click here to learn more and enroll.

Interview with Guillaume Desachy and Nicole Krämer Biomarkers help you in all kinds of different ways, so stay tuned while Guillaume, Nicole, and I talk about the following points: What are biomarkers for you?What makes it such an interesting topic?Why do you want to revitalize the biomarker SIG?What are your goals for the SIG?The richness of biomarkers requires more advanced methods. What would you foresee your SIG to do about these?How can people join the SIG? Reference: SIGS Biomakers Interested in joining the Biomarkers SIG? Please send an email to Nicole or Guillaume. Listen to this episode and share this with your friends and colleagues!

This is a gem of an episode, jam-packed with insights and tips for everyone, including the following topics: Leading without the job title; how to influence cross-functional teamsHow he overcame the fear of public speakingHow to build and manage a virtual teamCreative thinking in an analytical disciplineBeing comfortable with not being the expert as a leaderThe power of storytelling; the stories we tell others… and ourselves!Why you need to be conscious about how you start your day Listen to this insightful episode and share this with your friends and colleagues! Here's the link to the complete episode on Jenns podcast: https://chatswithjenn.buzzsprout.com/404680/10396368-embracing-vulnerability-and-leading-with-courage-with-alex-schacht-exec-vp-of-data-science