The Effective Statistician - in association with PSI

The Effective Statistician - in association with PSI

The Effective Statistician - in association with PSI

9 presentation mistakes to avoid

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We all need to present frequently and the more you progress with your career the more important the presentations become. Messing these presentations up - especially in front of those responsible for your next promotion - will lead to bad career outcomes.

Chats with Jenn: Embracing Vulnerability And Leading With Courage

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Today’s episode is an extract from my interview with Jenn Fenwick, who's also a podcaster like me and we talk about my career and leadership.

This is a fun chat where we talk about navigating fear, opening ourselves up to vulnerability and making courageous decisions… oh and Beyonce gets a mention too!

Extrapolation to paedriatics

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What is extrapolation?
How can we use extrapolation in paedriatics?
What are the main challenges?

Paedriatic research always comes with challenges and understanding paedriatic submission is very important. There's always a lack of treatment in this area. In this episode, you'll understand what you can do to get evidence through extrapolation for the children population.

How to integrate external data into your clinical studies: from theory to application

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What are the benefits of including external data in the design and analysis of clinical studies?
How does the meta-analytic predictive model (MAP) work?

I know you've had this dilemma of either having had the difficulty in collecting data or having too much available and yet irrelevant data while trying to conduct a clinical trial. When is it appropriate to use historical data and when is it appropriate to enroll new patients to collect new data?

Today, Gaëlle and I talked about the main objective of using historical data in clinical trials.

A pre-view into the PSI conference

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Why are we raving about this conference?
Why is this the best conference I have been attending to?
What are the other activities beside the conference itself?

This is a special episode while Benjamin and I talk about the upcoming PSI conference and what you can expect from it. This will be a face to face conference in Gothenburg, Sweden!

Patient-reported outcomes and the FDA Patient-Focused Drug Development Guidance

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The FDA is developing a series of four methodological patient-focused drug development (PFDD) guidance documents to address, in a stepwise manner, how stakeholders can collect and submit patient experience data and other relevant information from patients and caregivers for medical product development and regulatory decision making.

In today's episode, we discuss the process with the FDA publishing a timeline of planned public workshops, draft guidance documents and final guidance documents for 4 documents, originally planned to finish in end 2021 and its objective to explore the factors that need to be considered when developing COA-based endpoints.

Apps on prescription paid by the government

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What is a DIGA?
Why is Germany so important for DIGAs?

Nowadays, there are a couple of available apps being used in several countries that collect user information, such as heart rate combined with algorithms that calculate certain health risks that the user may be vulnerable to. What differentiates these apps from the apps listed in the DIGA registry?

In today's episode, Dr. Stefan Walzer and I discussed the goal of the Digital Health Application.

What does it take to develop good patient-reported outcomes?

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Why do companies want to develop new patient-reported outcomes?
How does the process start when we want to develop a new questionnaire?
What are the key areas to look into for understanding the quality of a PRO?
What guidelines exist for developing new PROs?

In today's episode, Antoine and I answer these questions and more. E.g. we talk about the importance of calibrating the relevance of the existing items in the questionnaire and developing new ones in order to reach more accurate measurements resulting in good PROs.

About this podcast

The podcast from statisticians for statisticians to have a bigger impact at work. This podcast is set up in association with PSI - Promoting Statistical Insight. This podcast helps you to grow your leadership skills, learn about ongoing discussions in the scientific community, build you knowledge about the health sector and be more efficient at work. This podcast helps statisticians at all levels with and without management experience. It is targeted towards the health, but lots of topics will be important for the wider data scientists community.

by Alexander Schacht and Benjamin Piske, biometricians, statisticians and leaders in the pharma industry

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