A reminder of next week's talk:
THE CAMBRIDGE STATISTICS DISCUSSION GROUP
PLEASE NOTE SLIGHTLY LATER START TIME:
Tuesday 29th April 2008 7:30 for 8:00
Cambridge Consultants Limited,
Science Park,
Milton Road, Cambridge
Working as a medical statistician in academia
and industry: how do they compare?
Stephen Sharp
M.R.C. Epidemiology Unit
Cambridge
Abstract:
Medical statisticians are usually employed either within an academic or
a pharmaceutical industry environment. I will describe my personal
experiences of working in both settings, and make some comparisons
between them, with respect both to the types of statistical work and
other aspects of the working culture.
Speaker:
Stephen has been working as Senior Statistician at the Medical Research
Council's Epidemiology Unit in Cambridge since August 2006. Completing
an MSc in Medical Statistics at the London School of Hygiene and
Tropical Medicine, he worked as a Research Fellow and Lecturer in the
same institution for a further 5 years, before moving into the
pharmaceutical industry. In his career to date he has worked as a
statistician in a variety of different disease areas, including
diabetes, obesity, HIV, infectious diseases, cardiovascular disease and
asthma. He is interested in all aspects of statistical methodology for
clinical trials and epidemiology.
Directions:
Head north on Milton Road. Two traffic lights before the A14 turn left
into the Science Park(clearly signposted). Turn left at the roundabout.
Cambridge Consultants Limited is on the right in approx. 200 yards.
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Provisional Next Meeting:
28th October - Simon Tavare (Applied Maths & Theoretical Physics).
26th November - David Spiegelhalter (MRc Biostatistics).
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each talk meeting in the downstairs bar at 5-45pm. Feel free to join them.
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"You can't build any kind of lasting conclusions based on an anecdote,
which is what a sample size of 1 really is."
Deborah Rumsey
("Statistics for Dummies")
Peter Watson
MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit
15 Chaucer Road
Cambridge
CB2 7EF
Tel: +44 01223 355294 Ext. 801
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