Enabling statisticians to lead through innovation and excellence - sponsored by PSI
The 2019 PSI Conference took place at the Queen Elizabeth II Centre (QEII), London, with the theme of “Data Driven Decision Making in Medical Research”.
The sessions included early phase innovative trial design, industry best practice, statistical issues in safety drug labelling, model-based dose-finding designs, an update from Transcelerate and much more.
In this series of interviews with the speakers at the conference, we talked about different topics:
[Read more…] about Best of PSI 2019Do you agree that everybody makes mistakes?
Have you had to deal with a mistake yourself, that you were really concerned about?
Were you afraid about speaking with your supervisor or your team with it?
We are all imperfect humans making mistakes. The questions are:
Processes are made to minimize mistakes and there different processes were set up to deal with mistakes and help you when mistakes occur.
In this episode Benjamin and Alexander will be talking about:
[Read more…] about Mistakes – How to minimize them – How to manage themHave 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 😊.
[Read more…] about Presenting with impact: 7 mistakes to avoidI recently changed my job and moving from one company to another comes with lots of uncertainty.
For any statistician a job change represent a major shift and occurs rather infrequent – hopefully. For a recruiter – this is day-to-day business.
[Read more…] about Are you up for a job change? Insights from a recruiter
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:
[Read more…] about How to work effectively as and with a placement student – a success story with Katie and ClaireI 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 project
