Interview with David Kerr In today’s episode, we’re talking with a niche part of clinical research many statisticians never get actively involved in: DMCs. David Kerr comes with a deep knowledge and long experience in this setting. We’ll speak about: What is a DMC? What is the role of a

The knowledge about the bias variance trade off is very important for you as a statistician as it comes across your work – especially exploratory work – all the time. Taking care about it will help you avoid problems of over- or underfitting your models.  Wikipedia explains the principle very

Interview with Jenny Devenport Jenny has encountered several highly competent people throughout her career who have admitted that they entered one path or another based on certain assumptions that were not entirely correct. Further, she has talked with interns about their future career interests and she sees them teetering on the

Interview with Nancy Carpenter The COVID-19 pandemic has put pharmaceutical research firmly into the spotlight, with the urgent need to develop new therapies, tests, and vaccines. For those outside the industry, hearing announcements in the mainstream media, it is not always easy to understand the intensity of the work and

Interview with Paolo Eusebi Our job as statisticians focuses primarily on the analysis and communication of uncertainty in its many aspects. For this episode, I think of uncertainty as the variability in the population we are studying, the uncertainty around estimates, or the model uncertainty, which we might capture via

Interview with Beth Manning What is change management? Is it only something for big corporate initiatives or does it also apply to smaller changes?Why does it require so much consideration?What’s hard about change? Change management is something I never thought about being interesting for statisticians, but recently, I needed to

I still can’t believe how fast things happened, and I am truly grateful for all of this. I interviewed a lot of people who have the same goal as mine – that is to build our expertise. I learned a lot and how important it is to know where the

Part 2 Do you want to review a data visualization effectively? Do you want to provide your organization with a simple tool to improve your data visualizations? Do you need a checklist for yourself to make sure you covered everything for your data visualization? This episode is for you! Never

Part 1 Do you want to review a data visualization effectively? Do you want to provide your organization with a simple tool to improve your data visualizations? Do you need a checklist for yourself to make sure you covered everything for your data visualization? This episode is for you! Never