🇬🇧 Statistical Issues in Drug Development

TRAINER

Prof Stephen
Senn

Statistical Consultant
Former Head of the Competence Centre for Methodology and Statistics, LIH

OUTLINE

This lecture-style course, including Q&A sessions, is based on Prof Senn’s monograph Statistical Issues in Drug Development (3rd edition, 2021) and his extensive experience working within and consulting for the pharmaceutical industry. It will explain ethodological ideas that underpin clinical trials and practical issues in implementing them.

TARGET AUDIENCE

The training should appeal to nonstatisticians who wish to gain an intuitive understanding of statistical issues related to clinical trial practice but also to statisticians who wish to understand practical problems that trialists face.

Day 1

Lecture 1: Control, randomisation
and blinding

Lecture 2: The measurement of
treatment effects

LUNCH BREAK

Lecture 3: The use of covariate information

Lecture 4: Some examples and some
lessons

Day 2

Lecture 5: Determining the sample size.

Lecture 6: Multi-centre trials

LUNCH BREAK

Lecture 7: Cross-over trials and n-of-1 trials

Lecture 8: Meta-analysis

DATA PRIVACY

Read more about the “Data Protection Notice: processing of personal data in the scope of events’ management”.