The Effective Statistician - in association with PSI
The Effective Statistician - in association with PSI
Episode Archive
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Presenting with impact: 7 mistakes to avoid
Have you been sitting in boring presentations that made you start reading your emails?
Have you been listening to someone, wondering if this is for me?
Have you been getting away fr...
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Join the abstract writing challenge!
The last PSI conference has just ended, but the timeline for a new abstract submission for the next one in Barcelone in 2020 will come up in about November 2019. Thus, it’s important to now star...
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Are you up for a job change? Insights from a recruiter
I recently changed my job and moving from one company to another comes with lots of uncertainty.
Will I pick the right one?
How can I make sure, that I actually get the job, that I w...
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How to work effectively as and with a placement student
Have you ever considered to work with a placement student?
Do you consider to spend some time as a placement student yourself?In this interview with Katie Thorn and Claire Brittai...
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Questions to ask yourself before starting a new project
I recently talked to a statistician, that initiated a small company internal group of statisticians to drive forward methodological innovation projects. While this surely will help the individua...
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Understanding heterogeneity for patient preference data and how it effects the benefit-risk ratio for treatments
As statisticians in the medical field, we’re used to study subgroups of patients with respect to all kinds of biological variables: from demographics to genomics. This provides us with a good un...
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Useful tips to apply the composite estimand approach
Estimands continue to be a hot topic, but many statisticians struggle to put it into practice. As statistician, we wonder about the correct interpretation and how to analyse different estimands....
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Advanced approach for subgroup analyses in easy steps - SIDES
One of the most common questions I got asked during my nearly 2 decades of being a statistician sounds similar to this: “Which patients have the best response to treatment?”
I’m sure, we a...
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50 shades of pre-specification
Prespecified=good and post-hoc=bad. This is how we as statistician see it usually and I did too. However, over the past years I realized more and more, that it’s not that easy.
How many d...
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How to best analyze ordinal data
Analysing binary or continuous data usually doesn’t cause any headaches for statisticians. But when we step into ordinal data, most of us ignore their specific nature and either dichotomize them...