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Activity Number: 246
Type: Contributed
Date/Time: Tuesday, August 8, 2006 : 8:30 AM to 10:20 AM
Sponsor: Biopharmaceutical Section
Abstract - #305408
Title: Teaching Statistics to Clinical Research Staff in a Pharmaceutical Company
Author(s): Sunil Dhar*+ and Farid Kianifard
Companies: New Jersey Institute of Technology and Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation
Address: 323 Martin Luther King Blvd., Newark, NJ, 07102,
Keywords: statistics education ; nonstatisticians
Abstract:

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 when designing clinical trials and interpreting clinical trial results. Such staff have little time for a one-semester, or even one-week, continuing education course in statistics. Faced with this reality, we developed a three-module course, for a total of 1.5 days taught over 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.

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