By Sophia Puliasis

Sex Differences in Clinical Trial Recruiting

Biostatistics, Clinical Trials, Med-Tech & Medical Device, Pharma & Drug Development, Uncategorized
The following article investigates several systematic reviews into sex and gender representation in individual clinical trial patient populations. In these studies sex ratios are assessed and evaluated by various factors such as clinical trial phase, disease type under investigation and disease burden in the population. Sex differences in the reporting of safety and efficacy outcomes are also investigated. In many…
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By Anatomise Biostats

Latent Variable Modelling And The Chi Squared Exact Fit Statistic

Biostatistics
Latent variable modelling and the chi squared exact fit statistic Latent variable models are exploratory statistical models used extensively throughout clinical and experimental research in medicine and the life sciences in general. Psychology and neuroscience are two key sub-disciplines where latent variable models are routinely employed to answer a myriad of research questions from the impact of personality traits on…
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By Anatomise Biostats

Do I need a Biostatistician?

Biostatistics
".... half of current published peer-reviewed clinical research papers ... contain at least one statistical error... When just surgical related papers were analysed, 78% were found to contain statistical errors." Peer reviewed published research is the go to source for clinicians and researchers to advance their knowledge on the topic at hand. It also currently the most reliable way available…
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