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CALC Episode 0: Introduction to PSI CALC Podcast Series

By Alexander on 2019-10-10 0

Do you have a passion for numbers and want to save lives?

The PSI CALC podcast is a 5 part series occurring bi-weekly. In this series, Alexander and members of the PSI CALC team discuss medical statistics as a career option.

This series is aimed at university students reading Mathematics or Statistics wanting to know more about the career opportunities available in the Pharmaceutical and Healthcare industry as a statistician.

Tune in to this introduction, which gives an overview of what to expect in future episodes.

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Non-parametric analyses – much more than just the Wilcoxon test!

By Alexander on 2019-09-03 0

Interview with Frank Konietschke

Frank has something in common with Benjamin and myself – we all studied statistics in Göttingen and learned and researched in non-parametric statistics. Afterwards, we went into different paths. Whereas Benjamin started at a CRO and I joined large pharma organizations, Frank continued on the academic track.

He recently became Professor at the famous Charitee in Berlin, where he’s still dedicating a lot of research to the field of non-parametric statistics. However, he’s not an ivory tower researcher but also applies these approaches in the medical research he’s taking part in.

Learn about a whole universe of different approaches, which will help you overcome many limitations of the methods, which you’re using daily.

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Presenting with impact: 7 mistakes to avoid

By Alexander on 2019-06-25 0

Interview with Julia Carter

Have you been sitting in boring presentations that made you start reading your emails?
Have you been listening to someone, wondering if this is for me?
Have you been getting away from a presentation and thinking 2 hours later: “what was this about?”

You’re surely don’t want your audience to feel this way, when you’re presenting yourself. You can’t be an effective statisticians without good presentation skills from my perspective. You will always need to present results, defend designs, or explain data.

Todays episode will give you insights into 7 mistakes of presentations. And honestly, I see at least one of them in nearly every presentation and I struggle with them as well – just listen to this episode and you’ll have a live example 😊.

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Are you up for a job change? Insights from a recruiter

By Alexander on 2019-06-18 0

Interview with Jack Corbett

I recently changed my job and moving from one company to another comes with lots of uncertainty.

Will I pick the right one?
How can I make sure, that I actually get the job, that I want?
Will hiring companies find me and offer me jobs?

For any statistician a job change represent a major shift and occurs rather infrequent – hopefully. For a recruiter – this is day-to-day business.

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How to work effectively as and with a placement student – a success story with Katie and Claire

By Alexander on 2019-06-11 0

Have you ever considered to work with a placement student?
Do you consider to spend some time as a placement student yourself?

In this interview with Katie Thorn and Claire Brittain, we’re exploring factors, which help to make it a win for both sides. Both have worked very well together and share their stories. We step into questions such as:

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Questions to ask yourself before starting a new project

By Alexander on 2019-06-04 0

I recently talked to a statistician, that initiated a small company internal group of statisticians to drive forward methodological innovation projects. While this surely will help the individuals to learn more about statistical methods, it was less clear, why and on which topics the group should focus their activities on.

While most of our day-to-day activities consists of running clinical studies, submissions and directly related work, we also engage in such innovation work streams or process improvement working groups and other such activities.

Today, we’re giving you advice on how to best pick the right projects to work on as you usually have some influence on this.

Specifically we cover the following questions, you should ask yourself first:

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