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.

With some nice drinks in our hands, we welcome the new year and commit to new year resolutions. We set our personal goals and pretty soon, we’ll have discussions at work about business related goals.

This episode will help you to not only be ready for the discussions with your supervisor, but also give you tools to reach the goals with better probability than the usual vague new years resolutions.

Happy Christmas! This episode is the last one in 2018 and we will distil the best of the last 40 episodes for you in this Christmas edition of the podcast.

It has been anamazing journey and we will talk about the challenges and the learnings as well as the achievements of the podcast itself. Thus, you’ll get a behind the scenes look into the podcasting work.

KOLs play a major role in the health sector and professionally working together with them will boost your career! This episode provides you with lots of insights and tips.

In this episode, we talk
• about how the interactions between pharma companies and KOLs look like
• which rules are important and how you as a statistician should comply with these
• about practical tips of building relationships with KOLs
• about opportunities to work with KOLs
• and about mindset topics in engaging withKOLs