The Effective Statistician - in association with PSI
Episodes
Leadership - what it means, how we built it, how it will help us shape the future of statistics
15 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Leadership is one of the most important aspects of any organization, and statistics is no exception. Good leadership can help a field grow and shape t...
Answers to 7 questions you probably have about improving your presentations using stories
07 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Are you struggling with your presentations? How does storytelling increase the interest of your listeners? How does audience relatability help in impr...
Multitasking
31 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Does Multi-tasking help or harm you? How could you handle the desire to multitask more effectively? What fallacies about multitasking does the world c...
Practical steps to improve your leadership skills
26 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this last part of the leadership series with Gary Sullivan, we talk about the next steps, you can take to work on your leadership skills. We cover...
5 use cases for network meta-analyses you should know about
24 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Indirect comparisons and network-meta analyses play a rising role in our world. A pubmed search provides 240 hits for the term network meta-analysis...
Bonus Episode: Understanding leadership deeply – trust, relationship, and influence for statisticians
20 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this second part of the interview with Gary, we speak about the building blocks of leadership without authority from a statistician’s perspective...
R and its rising role
17 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
How does information technology help reduce the statistical margin of mistakes? How does leadership come into play when creating programs designed to ...
Leaders are persistent
10 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What makes persistence one of the most important factors of being a leader? How does persistence among leaders in statistics affect the results of the...
Why should statisticians care about leadership and developing their leadership skills?
06 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Leadership program is now open and in this bonus episode, we go into some key questions about statisticians and leadership that may help you decid...
RWE and the FDA (Part 2)
04 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
How do real-world data variables change the overall value of a clinical study? How does clinical study make it to the implementation stage and how is ...
Bonus Episode: Impactful influencing: actionable advice to get things done through and with others
29 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Getting things done through others is a key part or even the definition of leadership and her clients face often the same situation as statisticians. ...
Small pond big fish
28 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What makes a statistician more valuable to an organization? How does a statistician’s work culture differ from working in a large company to workin...
As a statistician – do you take the back seat or do you drive yourself?
21 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcast episode, we discuss an important part of leadership – proactive behaviour. Or simply put—drive! As a statistician, your day-to-da...
RWE and the FDA (Part 1)
19 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What are RWEs or Real World Evidence about? How are Real World Evidence used in determining the value of clinical trials on how they are applied in re...
Success starts in your head – thoughts about the mindset of a successful statistician
14 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we share out ideas and experiences, which mindset sets up statisticians for success. We cover topics around:
Adherence – what is state of the art now?
13 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
How does patient adherence affect the results of clinical trials? Are there ways to improve patient adherence to medication and treatments not only in...
Stepping outside of our functions as statisticians with your career
06 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Why would a person working under the rules and purpose of statistics for 30 years want something more than what she has been an expert with for many y...
Leaders invest in themselves
29 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Why should statisticians aim for becoming good leaders? How do you invest in yourself to become a good leader? How does perseverance change the path...
Publications in launch and lifecycle
23 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Publications are part of the bigger communication plan which also covers PR, scientific dialog, promotion, training, and internal communications. Writ...
What makes a great secondary paper?
16 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What is a secondary paper? What is its typical content? Where is the content coming from? A secondary paper is a paper you do once you are done with y...
What makes you feel comfortable is what keeps you stuck
08 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Feeling comfortable does not lead to growth. But why do most people stay in their comfort zone? Are your own expectations holding you back? In this ...
Building organisations of leaders
02 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
I am really passionate about leadership and Claude Petit is also passionate about building leaders and being an effective leader. Together, we will sh...
Working with a pharmacometrician
26 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What is a pharmacometrician? What does the training of a pharmacometrician look like? In my career, my experience of working with pharmacometricians ...
Network Meta-Analyses: Much more than a press-the-button exercise
19 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What can go wrong with network meta-analyses? You often have multiple endpoints but these are not collected consistently across all the studies inclu...
Training in launch and commercialisation
11 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In today's episode, I am the interviewee, and Jenny is the one asking the questions. We are talking about how training in launch and commercialization...
Recruiting and retention in a post pandemic world
05 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The world has changed, and it will not turn back to what is used to be before the pandemic. This comes on top of other trends, like the increased use ...
The best sources for RWE that you may never heard about
28 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
I first became aware of these sources for real-world evidence some years ago, and I tried to get an expert on this topic so often, but unfortunately n...
Why and how to build your personal Board of Directors
20 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Is a board of directors essential for everyone? Is it necessary for it to come from within your company? This episode is all about career advise. Tog...
9 presentation mistakes to avoid
14 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We all need to present frequently and the more you progress with your career the more important the presentations become. Messing these presentations ...
Biomarkers - essentials to get you started
07 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What are biomarkers, and why is this essential?
Chats with Jenn: Embracing Vulnerability And Leading With Courage
30 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s episode is an extract from my interview with Jenn Fenwick, who's also a podcaster like me and we talk about my career and leadership. This ...
Extrapolation to paedriatics
25 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What is extrapolation? How can we use extrapolation in paedriatics? What are the main challenges? Paedriatic research always comes with challenges an...
How to integrate external data into your clinical studies: from theory to application
16 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What are the benefits of including external data in the design and analysis of clinical studies? How does the meta-analytic predictive model (MAP) wor...
A pre-view into the PSI conference
10 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Why are we raving about this conference? Why is this the best conference I have been attending to? What are the other activities beside the conference...
Patient-reported outcomes and the FDA Patient-Focused Drug Development Guidance
03 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The FDA is developing a series of four methodological patient-focused drug development (PFDD) guidance documents to address, in a stepwise manner, how...
Apps on prescription paid by the government
26 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What is a DIGA? Why is Germany so important for DIGAs? Nowadays, there are a couple of available apps being used in several countries that collect us...
What does it take to develop good patient-reported outcomes?
18 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Why do companies want to develop new patient-reported outcomes? How does the process start when we want to develop a new questionnaire? What are the k...
What is the current state of Launch and Lifecycle work and how did it evolve?
12 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What is medical affairs? Launch and Lifecycle? How has this area evolved over the last 2 decades? What is the current state across the industry in ter...
The best of causal inference
05 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
When there is one topic, which is really hot, it's causal inference. I've got in contact with it about 20 years ago when analysing observational studi...
Replay of Interview with Nigel Howitt on getting most out of a PSI membership
29 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The guest in this episode represents the sponsor of this show – Nigel Howitt – current chair of PSI.
How to say NO
22 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In the modern workplace, conflict has become a difficult topic. After all, conflict is antithetical to teamwork, employee engagement, and a positive c...
How to analyse subgroups effectively using data visualisation
15 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Subgroup analyses in combination with data visualisation is one of the hottest topics I can think about. And it hits us as statisticians during our ca...
Measuring the impact of our research via data science on data
08 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Publishing data is great, but we also want to measure the impact our work has beyond the additional entry in our CVs. During this episode, Mike and I ...
Things we would like to have known before we started with RWE
01 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We leverage Real World Evidence in many different areas and there's are many different things that can go wrong with this. In today's episode, Rachel...
How to start your week to win and not to become overwhelmed
22 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
How do you start your week? Do you just rely on yourself or do you use some tools to organise yourself? learned a lot of productivity hacks from Mich...
Help with your skills rather than with your money
14 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
There's a lot of community charity works we can all do but there is not a lot of work where we can maximise our impact by using our specific skills as...
What kind of leader do you want to be? Understand your leadership principles
07 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What kind of leader do you want to be? What are the leadership principles? I learned about the concept of leadership principles from Gary Sullivan an...
Challenges and opportunities of combining RWE and RCT data
01 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
I've been working on RWE most of my career and the clinical trial data for a while now. And 20 years ago, we would have never thought about merging t...
10 reasons to submit a poster for the PSI conference!
31 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This year's PSI conference will be face to face again. I'm really excited for this. This is the best conference for statisticians that you can attend...
Beyond SOPs - What is quality?
25 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
During my early years, I was overwhelmed by so many trainings, SOPs, and processes. Only after my later years I learned what quality is really about. ...
What are the opportunities for data science in pharma?
18 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What are typical data science methods that we are not yet using enough? Which areas will become important in the future in terms of data science?
How Agustin Calatroni leveraged the Wonderful Wednesday Webinars to create better data visualisations
11 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Data visualisation is one of my favorite topics and today, I'll be interviewing someone who has helped me understand about data visualisation for year...
Replay: Business Focus or Self Development? Make it both
11 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Is it possible to align business focus and self development at the same time? How can we create clear department or company goals or relate these to o...
Why did I join a CRO
04 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
I've been in pharma for 19 years now. I worked in various areas mostly in late phase area - post regulatory approval and phrase 3. I worked in differe...
Enneagrams
28 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What is the Enneagram? How will it help me work more effectively or be less frustrated? Lots of statisticians are introvert and detailed oriented. Doe...
EFSPI Statistical Leaders Meeting in 2021
21 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Over the last years, leaders of statistical organisations across Europe are meeting each year to talk about how the community can be moved forward and...
Why and how to show individual patients in your charts
14 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In our standard graphics, we usually present summary statistics only. The exception is the Kaplan-Meier plot showing also individual patients. Showing...
Why and how to present at the next PSI conference
14 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Do you think, you have nothing to add to a statistical conference? Are you afraid of sharing your achievements? Do you wonder, why you should put in t...
Episode 200th (Part 3)
14 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 200th (Part 2)
14 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 200th (Part 1)
14 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The must have knowledge to get anything done
07 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Have you ever been stuck in moving something forward? Do you wonder why others seem to be able to cut through the bureaucracy more easily? Are you fru...
The 4 pillars to boost your career
23 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Olaf has a really interesting character. He is an IT guy and he went up through the ranks of different companies, had a great career and learned quite...
Statistical Engineering
16 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What is Statistical Engineering (SE)? How did the idea of Statistical Engineering come about? Is SE an idea and a practice, or is it a profession, ...
How to combine a control arm with RWE data
09 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Today, I have an interview with Margaret Gamalo, about how to combine a controlled arm with real world evidence data, a really hot topic. Also, Marga...
Why and how to build buffer into your plans
02 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Are you overwhelmed by work? Do you feel like being constantly under time pressure? As I’m talking with colleagues in nearly all organizations, the...
How I'm training others in improving their visualization skills
26 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Do you want to help someone improve their visualization skills? Or do you want to train others on any other statistics skills? Training is a very imp...
Business focus or self development? Make it both
19 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Is it possible to align business focus and self development at the same time? How can we create clear department or company goals or relate these to o...
Preparing for a tough conversation
13 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
While we go through our career, we have lots of days that are more or less similar: meetings, discussions, and emails. But sometimes there are spotlig...
Statistical Unicorns
05 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What is a statistical unicorn? What should we be doing to become one? Gary Sullivan introduced me to Ena and she's a really interesting statistician....
Can introverts be good negotiators?
27 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What are the limitations and strength of introverts in negotiations? What does listening really mean and why is it important for negotiations? How do ...
Dark Data: Why what you don’t know matters
20 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What is Dark Data? What inspired David to write this book? What did he hope to accomplish in its writing? Today, we all make decisions using data. ...
What can we learn from journalism
14 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How does data visualization work for journalism? What can we learn from it as statisticians? Today, we will be talking about data visualization in jo...
How to ask for more money or for a promotion
07 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Are you looking for a promotion or a higher salary? What are the processes to grant these kind of requests? Can you ask for this right away or is ther...
Strategy - what is this and how can statisticians apply strategic thinking
31 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What is a good or bad strategy? What is the difference between strategy and goals? Has strategy something to do with vision or long-term thinking?
My experience as a statistician in a due diligence project
23 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What is due diligence? Why do you need a statistician in it?
Opportunities offered by doing a placement year in the Pharmaceutical and Healthcare industry
23 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Fighting the fear at work
17 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Afraid of speaking up? Afraid of talking to senior management? Afraid of giving a presentation? Afraid of speaking to someone new? Then you are def...
5 Steps to teaching statistics well
09 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How do you create and teach effective and moving content that your audience will pay attention to and add great value to them? Teaching is really imp...
CALC Episode 6
09 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Mentor others to be mentored - Manatee Mentor
02 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Is having a mentor really beneficial? What is Manatee Mentor? What are its key features? How can this predict your professional success? Manatee Me...
The Data Project
27 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What is the data project? Why are data management programs a strategic imperative? Why do they fail? Usually a data management project starts with a ...
Posters, flyers, papers and how you can use QR codes to enhance them
20 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
You may think that QR codes aren't new. But it's actually quite something new in our field. We as statisticians, should not just leave the use of QR...
Taking on leadership roles outside of statistics
13 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Today, we have a special guest, Shanti. Learn while she shares with us her vast experience in the pharmaceutical industry collected over 25 years. She...
The analysis of adverse events done right - SAVVY
06 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
When I started my career as a statistician in the clinical world, I was wondering about safety analysis. I thought it's always the same - count the pa...
Why spend part of your career, as a pharmaceutical statistician in the non-clinical areas?
29 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Why spend part of your career in non-clinical statistics? What are the advantages? What is the importance of having a variety of tools?
R vs SAS - which is the better tool in pharmaceutical research
21 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
R versus SAS - which is a better tool? Today, we talk about a controversial topic. If you go online and look into social media, you'll find a lot of ...
Animations and movements - how to use them effectively with data visualization
15 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We may use movements and transformations as an add-on to the design. However, this type of implementations can be more important than that. Motion i...
3 steps to be happier at work
07 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We all want to be happy and satisfied at work and get some recognition. Yet, work is often a struggle, a troll. What can we do to be happier at work?...
Determining the control strategy for a manufacturing process
31 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How can you determine what control strategy to use for a manufacturing process? What can you learn from this even if you are not working with manufact...
Never split the difference
25 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Never Split the Difference written by Chris Voss, who was a former international hostage negotiator for the FBI offers a new field-tested approach t...
5 levels of statistical leadership
18 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What are the 5 levels of statistician leadership? How you can develop your leadership skills over time? Leadership is multidimensional. It depends on...
Non-clinical statistics for research and development
11 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we talk about non-clinical research and development and how statisticians contribute to these efforts. Join us while we talk about th...
Non-clinical pharmaceutical statistics
04 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What is non-clinical pharmaceutical statistics?
Learnings from 1 year of the Wonderful Wednesdays
26 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Data visualization is at the heart of what we are doing (or should be doing) as statisticians. It moved from being a side topic a couple of years ago ...
Welcome to Sam Gardner and insights into non-clinical statistics
20 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Let's welcome Sam Gardner as our new co-host for our podcast show!
How AI helps us with patient insights
13 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Everybody talks about AI, but where are the actual use cases? In the episode today, I'm talking with Dooti Roy about AiCure. AiCure uses an easy-to-u...
How to get the most out of a virtual conference
05 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
As the pandemic continues to affect the community’s ability to meet in-person, virtual conferences adapt and develop to create space for companies. ...
Graduate Training Program
29 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Are you a master's student or just graduated from a university? What is the Graduate Training Programme? How is the training conducted? What happens a...
A virtual summer academy for statisticians
22 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
For today's episode, Qiqi and I talk about BI-UConn Summer Academy, an initiative we started 3 years ago to help students understand and learn the wor...