Month: February 2019

Data science or just statistics on non-medical data? A new horizon for statisticians

Interview with Stephen Ruberg 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. This leads to questions …

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Current trends in data science for pharma – findings from a qualitative survey and what we should do about it!

Interview with Ursula Garczarek 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 …

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What you can learn about communication of statistics from a statistician working for the BBC

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 …

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