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Teaching statistics to clinical research staff in a pharmaceutical company
Author(s) -
Dhar Sunil K.,
Kianifard Farid
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
pharmaceutical statistics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.421
H-Index - 38
eISSN - 1539-1612
pISSN - 1539-1604
DOI - 10.1002/pst.208
Subject(s) - medical education , resource (disambiguation) , clinical trial , interpretation (philosophy) , pharmaceutical industry , statistical analysis , course (navigation) , psychology , computer science , statistics , medicine , engineering , mathematics , pharmacology , computer network , pathology , programming language , aerospace engineering
Education of clinical research staff in understanding statistical concepts is an area of importance for pharmaceutical companies. This understanding is needed to help them communicate with statisticians using a common language, in designing clinical trials and interpretation of clinical trial results. Such staff has little time for a one‐semester or even a one‐week continuing education course in statistics. Faced with this reality, we developed a 3‐module course, for a total of 1.5 days, which was taught over a period of one month that addresses the needs of this audience. We describe the format and content of the course and provide references that can serve as a resource for teaching such a course. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.