Here you can learn how to add new statistical methods to your toolbox. These may not be neccessarily cutting edge methods, but approaches, that you are not yet aware about.
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 …
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 DMC statistician? What are the …
Data monitoring committees for clinical trials and the role of the statistician Read More »
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 well: “In statistics and machine …
Bias-variance-trade off – an important principle you should know and 3 examples for it Read More »
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 edges of some same fallacies. It’s …
Reflections on Statistics Career Opportunities in Drug Development and Healthcare Read More »
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 collaboration that fuels game-changing new …
Career dedication and motivation – the unsung heroes of COVID Read More »
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 looking into various models. Interestingly, …