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CLINICAL BIOSTATS

Calendar Biostatics 2

Biostatistics Calendar 2:

This Biostatistics course is scheduled to have classes every Monday through Thursday from 5:30 pm to 8:30 pm Eastern Standard Time (EST), starting on February 1 and ending on April 25. 

Week 1: Tables, Listings, and Figures (TLFs)

  • Overview of TLFs
  • Adverse events (by System Organ Class and Preferred Term)
  • Clinical laboratory tables
  • Swimlane plots

Week 2: Tables, Listings, and Figures (TLFs) II

  • Efficacy tables
  • Waterfall plots
  • Spider plots for oncology
  • Disposition and demographics
  • RECIST v1.1 efficacy endpoints

Week 3: Sample Size/Power calculations

  • Overview of sample size and power calculations
  • Continuous and count endpoints
  • Binary and proportional endpoints
  • Time-to-event endpoints
  • Group sequential trials

Week 4: Efficacy signal detect and Bayesian Statistics

  • Simon's Two Stage Designs
  • Fleming's Two Stage Designs
  • Introduction to Bayesian statistics
  • Sample size calculation for Bayesian trials
  • Bayesian futility and toxicity gating
  • Bayesian hierarchical models

Week 5: Dose Escalation/Finding

  • Overview of dose escalation/finding methods
  • 3+3 design
  • BOIN
  • MCP

Week 6: Statistical Analysis Plan Writing

  • Overview of statistical analysis plans (SAP)
  • Writing a SAP

Week 7: MMRM

  • Overview of MMRM
  • Common covariance structures

Week 8: Controlling FWER and FDR for multiple hypothesis testing

  • Controlling FWER and FDR for multiple hypothesis testing

Week 9: Analyzing Simulated Data from Clinical Trials

  • Introduction to simulated data analysis
  • Analyzing simulated data from a gene therapy clinical trial

Week 10: Analyzing Simulated Data from Clinical Trials II

  • Analyzing simulated data from a medical device trial

Week 11: SDTM/ADaM Data Sets and Development of a Clinical R Shiny Application

  • SDTM/ADaM Data Sets

Week 12: Development of a Clinical R Shiny Application

  • R Shiny Application