Pharmaceutical Statistics

Read these top cited papers:

Optimal caliper widths for propensity-score matching when estimating differences in means and differences in proportions in observational studies

Guidelines for accurate EC50/IC50 estimation

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Proposed best practice for statisticians in the reporting and publication of pharmaceutical industry-sponsored clinical trials

A guide to the design and analysis of small clinical studies

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OnlineOpen – The Open Access Option for Authors

OnlineOpen is available to authors who wish to make their article open access, free to read, download and share via Wiley Online Library and PubMed Central. Read this recent OnlineOpen article. Yours can be too. Learn more about OnlineOpen.

Escalation strategies for combination therapy Phase I trials
Michael J. Sweeting and Adrian P. Mander

The latest Joint PSI's Pharmaceutical Statistics and RSS Journal Club Meeting on Survival Analysis took place on 16th April.

The key papers discussed were:

Evaluating joint effects of induction–salvage treatment regimes on overall survival in acute leukaemia

Attenuation of treatment effect due to measurement variability in assessment of progression-free survival

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PSI Conference 2013

This year, the closing session at 11:30 on Wed 15th May celebrates 10 years of Pharmaceutical Statistics.

Pharmaceutical Statistics, PSI’s own journal, has been around for more than 10 years, and during this time, has seen the publication of many important and influential papers. In this session, PSI have picked one such paper (“Assurance in Clinical Trial Design”, by A. O’Hagan, J.W. Stevens and M.J. Campbell, Pharmaceutical Statistics 4, 187-201, 2005) to be presented by one of the authors, in the style of an RSS Ordinary meeting.

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New Editor-in-Chief

We are delighted to welcome Oliver Keene as one of three Editors-in-Chief of Pharmaceutical Statistics. Oliver studied mathematics at Cambridge University before completing an MSc in statistics at University College, London.

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