The Effective Statistician - in association with PSI
The Effective Statistician - in association with PSI
Episode Archive
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Join The Effective Statistician in Clubhouse App
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 soci...
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The Chimp Paradox
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 re...
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Data monitoring committees for clinical trials and the role of the statistician
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 experien...
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Bias-variance-trade off - an important principle you should know and 3 examples for it
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 h...
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Reflections on Statistics Career Opportunities in Drug Development and Healthcare
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. F...
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Career dedication and motivation – the unsung heroes of COVID
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 annou...
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5 steps to present successfully to upper management about complex stats (and everything else)!
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 w...
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Do you want to think and act more strategically?
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 ...
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How to best visualize uncertainty
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 ...
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What you should know about change management
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 c...