Month: March 2021

A virtual summer academy for statisticians

Interview with Dooti and Qiqi For today’s episode, Qiqi and I talk about BI-UConn Summer Academy, an initiative we started 3 years ago to help students understand and learn the world of clinical development better and bring them networking opportunities. This hybrid academy is open to both UCOnn students and students outside of UConn. It’s …

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6 steps to prepare before you want to convince your business partner

Do you have a great idea you want to move forward and you need others to buy in? Maybe you want to improve a process or implement a new analysis approach. Your business partner might be your study team or your supervisor. Whenever, we want to change something, we usually need others to agree into …

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The power of simulations for designing clinical studies and beyond

Interview with Aiden Flynn from Exploristics Aiden has first worked on simulations during studying statistics to understand which sample sizes lead to sufficient performance of statistics, which are only asymptotically normal. It helped him in many situations, in which it was difficult to tackle a problem analytically. Simulations help us understand very complex situations, and …

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The Chimp Paradox

Interview with Stuart McGuire Do you sometimes feel that you disrupt your own happiness and success?Are you overworked to make sense of yourself?Do your emotions often control you? Stuart and I got a recommendation to read a book entitled “The Chimp Paradox: The Acclaimed Mind Management”. This book is an incredibly powerful mind management model that …

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