Archives for March 2019

Introduction to Benefit-Risk Assessment

By alexanderhschacht on 2019-03-19 0

Interview with Maria Costa and Shahrul Mt-Isa

Benefit-risk assessments are made by various stakeholders including sponsors, regulators, payers, physicians, and patients throughout the life-cycle of a treatment.

The understanding of data plays a vital role in weighting positive and negative effects of medications.

In this episode, we give you an introduction to what benefit-risk (BR) assessment is in order for you to understand your role.

We also cover the following topics:

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How to get most out of a conference

By alexanderhschacht on 2019-03-12 0

Interview with Kate Taylor – chair of the PSI conference in 2019

Hopefully, you’re attending statistical conferences to learn more about the latest developments in the field. But of course, there’s much more to conferences than just the sessions.

In this episode, I’m chatting with Kate Taylor – the chair of the PSI conference 2019 in London- about how to get most out of a conference. Of course, we take the upcoming PSI conference as an example.

In this episode, we talk about

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Introduction to cluster analysis

By alexanderhschacht on 2019-03-05 0

Not all patients are created equal, but are there subgroups that are more homogenous?

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.

The title of the presentation was “Not all patients are created equal, but are there subgroups that are more homogenous?”

If you wonder about questions like:

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