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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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?

n this second part of the interview with Gary, 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?

This is an announcement episode of an upcoming free webinar. Learn more about this webinar and register for it at theeffectivestatistician.com/webinar.