My PhD student Qiang Zhang is looking to understand how sample sizes for clinical trials with adaptive designs are presented in protocols and is keen to talk to researchers For further information see below If you are able to help then please get in touch with Qiang

A great article by Stephen Senn on the analysis of n-of-1 trials

Presented my supervisors with a scarf from my hometown Najran, inspired by the historic Hima wells! Thank you for the last four years! Steven Julious Rebecca Simpson #Najran #HimaWells #SaudiArabia #phd #phdlife #PhDone

Fahad Alkhathami (@fahdalkathami) presenting his poster at the AUKCAR annual meeting #AUKCARASM2024 on a pilot study in schools to reduce school absences #clinicaltrials

Asghar Meerza presenting a post of his PhD on establishing a health economic model to assess interventions to improve adherence at AUKCAR annual meeting #aukcarasm2024 #clinicaltrials

Using the month, day, year date format today's date is 4-24-24

Congratulations to Jeremy Dawson (Jeremy Dawson) who is one of 30 new Fellows elected to the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP), and the only one from the UK this year.

Just had a paper published with Liv Hawksworth and others entitled a methodological review of randomised n-of-1 trials (rdcu.be/dHNVH). It is part of a series of papers on the topic

My colleagues Rebecca Simpson, Richard Jacques and Stephen Walters from ScHARR Medical Statistics Group in SCHARR are running a short course "How to Understand Statistics in Research" sheffield.ac.uk/smph/modules/h…

Check out the first paper from our BMC Trials series on the collection, analysis and reporting of adverse events in randomised controlled trials trialsjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

Just had an article published in Statistics in Medicine with James Salsbury,@oakley_je and Lisas Hampson on assurance methods with delayed treatment effect onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/QAKHGXGX…

Had an article published Trials led by Nikki Totton with Dyfrig Hughes, Ruth Owen, Ed Waddingham and Prof Jonathan A Cook on benefit risk methods to improve reporting of adverse events rdcu.be/dLIPj

£770m. That’s the economic benefit international students contributed to the city of Sheffield in the 2021-2 academic year. We’re calling on the government to recognise the economic, social and cultural value of international students and remove them from net migration figures.

The 3rd in the series Design and analysis of n-of-1 trials (biomedcentral.com/collections/DA…) entitled The development of a set of key points to aid clinicians and researchers in designing and conducting n-of-1 trials Led by Robin Chatters is published doi.org/10.1186/s13063…

The 2nd paper in the series Design and analysis of n-of-1 trials (biomedcentral.com/collections/DA…) entitled A methodological review of randomised n-of-1 trials Was led by Liv Hawksworth doi.org/10.1186/s13063…

The 1st paper in the special series on Design and analysis of n-of-1 trials (biomedcentral.com/collections/DA…) entitled The analysis of continuous data from n-of-1 trials using paired cycles: a simple tutorial Was led by Stephen John Senn doi.org/10.1186/s13063…

📢 Free R training material📢 I am making materials for all my courses available for free because I believe science should not be behind a paywall. Free materials are now available for the Intro to R with tidyverse course via bit.ly/4d514vC #rstats #openscience

A favourite: #OTD 1977 Martin Bland & Doug Altman publish together for the first time: a comment in Lancet criticizing an article that confused association with causation. They went on to publish more than 100 papers together, many of which are citation classics

Given the shrewd timing of the investment by The USS in Thames Water shares I imagine the purchase by then of 3000 homes is a prelude to a property crash.... theguardian.com/society/articl…

Congrulations to Charlotte Brocklehurst for her award of the Jayne Fountain Scholarship sponsored by Parexel