Communicating Complex Statistical Concepts

PSI 1-Day Scientific Meeting:
Communicating Complex
Statistical Concepts
 
Thursday 5th June 2014, Slough

Venue: UCB 208 Bath Road Slough SL1 3WE

With increased pressures to run smaller, quicker studies that need to deliver more answers than ever before we are tasked with designing innovative studies that can meet these demands but remain statistically sound.  This 1-day meeting aims to address how we, as statisticians, can better communicate the underlying complex statistical methodology such that our clinical colleagues better understand the risks and the decisions they will be able to make at the end of the study.
 

8:50

Registration & Coffee

9:10

Welcome & Introduction

 

 

9:15

Some experiences of communicating probabilities and errors in Exploratory Development at UCB

 

Ros Walley & Peter Colman (UCB)

10:00

A picture is worth a thousand words - usually

 

Stephen Senn (CRP-Santé)

10:45

Tea & Coffee

 

 

11:00

A thousand numbers cannot say enough: communicating Bayesian statistics using examples, intuition and common sense

 

Simon Wandel (Novartis)

 

 

11:45

Prediction as Inference

 

Harry Southworth (Data Clarity Consulting)

12:30

Lunch

 

 

13:30

Unconventional clinical development trials - what can possibly go wrong? A case study

 

Bill Richardson (NDA Group)

14:15

Communicating Benefits and Risks of Medicines for Decision-Making

 

Deborah Ashby (Imperial College London)

15:00

Tea & Coffee

 

 

15:15

Statistician Heal Thyself – Good Communication Requires Real Understanding

 

Andy Grieve (Aptiv Solutions)

16:00

Discussion

 

 

16:30

Close

 

 

 

 
 

Registration on or before 1st May 2014

PSI Members:          £100.00 (plus VAT)

Non-Members*:      £140.00 (plus VAT)

Academics*:            £40.00   (plus VAT)

Registration after 1st May 2014

PSI Members:          £140.00 (plus VAT)

Non-Members*:      £200.00 (plus VAT)

Academics*:            £70.00   (plus VAT)

*Price includes 1 year PSI affiliate membership

Contact:

PSI Secretariat

psi@mci-group.com

Tel: +44 (0) 845 1800 349

Fax: +44 (0) 1730 715291  

Durford Mill, Petersfield, Hampshire GU31 5AZ

  

YOU CAN NOW REGISTER
AND PAY ONLINE AT www.psiweb.org

 

MEETING ABSTRACTS AND

PRESENTATIONS WILL BE POSTED ON www.psiweb.org

 

 

Attendance at the course counts as 7.5 hours towards any CPD requirements

 

Many thanks to UCB for

hosting this event

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