Are you curious about why and how I started The Effective Statistician?
What’s in it for you?
Why I’m passionate about it?
It all started when I became a new supervisor and had my first direct reports and I thought I really needed to learn about supervisory skills but I had very limited time. I found out that podcasts really help to learn while I commute to work – it’s effective.
In this podcast, you can learn a lot from the following:
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Questions to ask yourself before starting a new project
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:
[Read more…] about Questions to ask yourself before starting a new projectHow to train non-statisticians effectively – 11 tips to succeed
Today we’re answering a question from the listeners. As nearly everybody will need to train non-statisticians sooner or later, this is a relevant topic. Unfortunately, lots of the trainings fall short and leave the audience confused and even bored.
This episode helps you to make your training engaging, interesting and useful. Such a training will help you to build your reputation as an expert as well as a great person to work with. It’s an awesome experience for non-statistician, if they have a light-bulb moment while being trained on statistics.
Listen to the episode and learn about these 11 tips to make your training successful:
[Read more…] about How to train non-statisticians effectively – 11 tips to succeedThe rise of R and what role the AIMS SIG plays in it
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?
Then this interview with Lyn Tailor and Craig McIlloney helps you. Both work on the PSI special interest group Application and Implementation of Methodologies in Statistics (AIMS) on this topics.
Furthermore, we cover the following topics:
[Read more…] about The rise of R and what role the AIMS SIG plays in itImpress your supervisor by being super prepared for your goal setting discussion
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.
We’ll start the episode with discussing some reasons for setting goals, which include:
[Read more…] about Impress your supervisor by being super prepared for your goal setting discussionHow to prewire a meeting
Have you ever been proposing or defending a project in a larger meeting – maybe even with senior management – and it didn’t go as smoothly as you would like?
Or do you prepare yourself for such a meeting and you feel unsure about what to expect?
Then, this episode will help you!
[Read more…] about How to prewire a meeting