Description: Clear, short open-access article published by the American Academy of Pediatrics.
Link: Article: Collaborating with a Statistician: Bringing a Clinical Perspective to Statistics
Who is this resource for: Clinical investigators
Who created this resource: This article was written by a group of biostatisticians and physicians, led by Dr. Matt Hall, PhD, Principal Biostatistician, Children’s Hospital Association, Overland KS. Citation: Matt Hall, Troy Richardson, Jay G. Berry, Lilliam Ambroggio, Samir S. Shah and Kenneth B. Roberts. Hospital Pediatrics December 2016, 6 (12) 750-752; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1542/hpeds.2016-0054.
What does this resource offer:
The article describes how clinicians and statisticians work together in each phase of a research study. The authors encourage continual input and dialogue between the clinician and statistician at each phase of the research study, especially in the early planning phase while developing the analytic plan and also while executing the plan.