The Effective Statistician - in association with PSI

Interview with Robert Cuffe Click here to get to the homepage of the episode! It's surely not the norm, that a statistician from the pharma sector ends up working for BBC. But Robert Cuffe has taken this step and needs to explain statistics to non-statisticians on a daily basis. In this episode, he shares the different methods he’s using. We also dive into common pitfalls, that we as statisticians trap into. Finally, we also learn, how we can improve our publications to make sure, that the science is reported correctly in the broader news

Interview with Pepa Polavieja Click here to get to the homepage of this episode! Do you know that TransCelerate does for statisticians? Do you write study protocols, analysis plans and programming specifications as individual documents noting, that there’s lots of redundancy? Do you wonder, if there’s a more efficient was in-line with what regulators want? Pepa Polavieja will provide you with answers to all these questions in this episode.

Interview with Lyn Tailor and Craig McIlloney Click here to get to the homepage of the episdode! 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.

Interview with Gary Sullivan Click here to get to the homepage of the episode! 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.

Interview with Gary Sullivan Click here to get to the homepage of the episodes! In the third part of the leadership series with Gary Sullivan, we talk about: What skills does it takes to influence as a statistician?When it’s about driving change - what are the rational, operational, and emotional challenges?How do I get a "seat at the table" and have more influence?   Thus, you will exactly know what to work on after this episode. Watch out for next weeks episode as we’ll have something for you to accelerate your leadership development. If you haven’t already listened, you can find the previous two episodes here (part 1 and part 2).

Interview with Gary Sullivan Click here for the homepage of the episode! In this second part of the interview with Gary (check here for part 1), we speak about the building blocks of leadership without authority from a statistician’s perspective. We cover questions like: Is influence the same as power?What is the role of trust, what are the different elements of trust and how can we improve trust being technical experts?How can we build relationships at work, that help us to influence change?Is influence through relationships only relevant “sideways” or also “upwards” and “downwards”?How do we know, with whom we need to invest in building relationships?Is there a way of assessing how good our relationships are?

Presented by Gary Sullivan and Alexander Schacht This is an announcement episode of an upcoming free webinar. Learn more about this webinar and register for it at theeffectivestatistician.com/webinar.

Goal setting for statisticians Click here to get to the homepage of the episode! 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.

The Christmas episode Click here for the homepage of the episode! Happy Christmas! This episode is the last one in 2018 and we will distil the best of the last 40 episodes for you in this Christmas edition of the podcast. It has been anamazing journey and we will talk about the challenges and the learnings as well as the achievements of the podcast itself. Thus, you’ll get a behind the scenes look into the podcasting work.

Actionable advise and background information Click here to find the homepage of the episode. KOLs play a major role in the health sector and professionally working together with them will boost your career! This episode provides you with lots of insights and tips. In this episode, we talk about how the interactions between pharma companies and KOLs look like which rules are important and how you as a statistician should comply with these about practical tips of building relationships with KOLs about opportunities to work with KOLs and about mindset topics in engaging with KOLs