title: Teaching statistics to clinical research staff in a pharmaceutical company.
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, in designing clinical trials and interpretation of clinical trial results. Such staff has little time for a one-semester or even a one-week continuing education course in statistics. Faced with this reality, we developed a 3-module course,for a total of 1.5 days, which was taught over a period of 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Mathematical Sciences, Center for Applied Mathematics and Statistics, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ 07102, USA. sunil.k.dhar@njit.edu
authors.forename: Sunil K
authors.initials: SK
authors.lastname: Dhar
authors.forename: Farid
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Kianifard
mesh_terms: D002986:Clinical Trials as Topic; D003627:Data Interpretation, Statistical; D004345:Drug Industry; D006801:Humans; D012107:Research Design; D013223:Statistics as Topic / Q000193:education*; D013663:Teaching