The Effective Statistician - in association with PSI

Interview with Kate Taylor – chair of the PSI conference in 2019 Click here to get to the homepage of the episode! In this episode, we talk about how to network how to prepare for the conference how to follow up after the conference As well as some specific topics around the PSI conference itself.

Not all patients are created equal, but are there subgroups that are more homogenous? Click here to get to the homepage of the episode! This episode follows the outline of a webinar, that I presented in 2018 during a PSI webinar. I’m introducing cluster analysis and why you as a statistician need to know about it.

Interview with Stephen Ruberg Click here to get to the homepage of the episode! There’s a long tradition of statisticians working on clinical studies as well as other related data, e.g. pre-clinical data and observational data. In the advent of big data and data sciences, there’s a considerable pull from the business side of pharma to employ statistical approaches as well. What does this mean for medical statisticians?

Interview with Ursula Garczarek Click here to get to the homepage of the episode! Do you want to learn where the health sector might be heading in terms of data science? Do you understand the opportunities and barriers in terms of the application of data science? Are you prepared to learn the individual skills needed for these changes? Then this interview with Ursula from Cytel provides you with the relevant answers.

Interview with Robert Cuffe Click here to get to the homepage of the episode! It's surely not the norm, that a statistician from the pharma sector ends up working for BBC. But Robert Cuffe has taken this step and needs to explain statistics to non-statisticians on a daily basis. In this episode, he shares the different methods he’s using. We also dive into common pitfalls, that we as statisticians trap into. Finally, we also learn, how we can improve our publications to make sure, that the science is reported correctly in the broader news

Interview with Pepa Polavieja Click here to get to the homepage of this episode! Do you know that TransCelerate does for statisticians? Do you write study protocols, analysis plans and programming specifications as individual documents noting, that there’s lots of redundancy? Do you wonder, if there’s a more efficient was in-line with what regulators want? Pepa Polavieja will provide you with answers to all these questions in this episode.

Interview with Lyn Tailor and Craig McIlloney Click here to get to the homepage of the episdode! Do you think, R can’t be used for regulatory submissions? Are you forced to use SAS but would like to use R instead? Would you like to understand how you can make R submission proof? Then this interview with Lyn Tailor and Craig McIlloney helps you. Both work on the PSI special interest group Application and Implementation of Methodologies in Statistics (AIMS) on this topics.

Interview with Gary Sullivan Click here to get to the homepage of the episode! In this last part of the leadership series with Gary Sullivan, we talk about the next steps, you can take to work on your leadership skills.

Interview with Gary Sullivan Click here to get to the homepage of the episodes! In the third part of the leadership series with Gary Sullivan, we talk about: What skills does it takes to influence as a statistician?When it’s about driving change - what are the rational, operational, and emotional challenges?How do I get a "seat at the table" and have more influence?   Thus, you will exactly know what to work on after this episode. Watch out for next weeks episode as we’ll have something for you to accelerate your leadership development. If you haven’t already listened, you can find the previous two episodes here (part 1 and part 2).

Interview with Gary Sullivan Click here for the homepage of the episode! In this second part of the interview with Gary (check here for part 1), we speak about the building blocks of leadership without authority from a statistician’s perspective. We cover questions like: Is influence the same as power?What is the role of trust, what are the different elements of trust and how can we improve trust being technical experts?How can we build relationships at work, that help us to influence change?Is influence through relationships only relevant “sideways” or also “upwards” and “downwards”?How do we know, with whom we need to invest in building relationships?Is there a way of assessing how good our relationships are?