Biomedical Statistical Consulting
Since 1986 Providing Quality in Design, Implementation, and Presentation

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BIOSTATISTICS

For

Regulatory Studies of Medical Devices &

Pharmaceuticals

          Greg Maislin

   Principal Biostatistican

Consulting resume of Principal
Literature citation history of Principal
Letter to prospective clients

Web Pages That Perform Statistical Calculations
(Maintained by John C. Pezzullo)

 

Free Statistics Calculators

(Maintained by Daniel S. Soper)

 

Karl Wuensch's Statistical Help Page

(a nice collection of misc. but useful help topics)

 

Richard Lowry's VassarStats:

User friendly site that performs a number of fundamental statistical computations.

 

MARTINDALE'S
CALCULATORS ON-LINE CENTER
STATISTICS: A-Z

 

Globally Accessible Statistical Procedures

 

StatLib: Data, Software and News from the Statistics Community

*     Design of medical device trials
*     Design of post approval studies (PAS)
*     Design of post market surveillance studies (522)
*     Bayesian designs
*     Sample size re-estimation (SSR) Designs
*     Propensity score (PS) designs for non-randomized trials
*     Imputation methods for missing clinical endpoints
*     Regulatory representation at pre IDE and other scheduled meetings
*     Panel meeting presentation
 
NEXT ORTHOPEDIC PANEL MEETING
June 27-28, 2012: Orthopaedic and Rehabilitation Devices Panel 
of the Medical Devices Advisory Committee Meeting
 Announcement   
  

McNemar's Test for Correlated Proportions in the Marginals of a 2x2 Contingency Table (includes Exact Test and Exact confidence interval for odds ratio) By Vassar Stats (Richard Lowry)

The Astronomy Picture of the Day

Google Scholar the Principal Biostatistician

Criterium, Inc., our international data management/clinical monitoring colleagues

Links to Our Association Affiliations

 Click here for the American Statistical Association

Click here for the Institute of Mathematical Statistics

Click here for the Drug Information Association

Click here for the International Biometric Society

Click here for the Society for Clinical Trials

Links to Good Statistical Methods Pages

David A. Kenny’s Causal Analysis Page (mediation effects)

David A. Kenny’s Structural Equation Modeling Page

Interpreting Diagnostic Tests (Thomas G. Tape, MD)

Rich Ulrich's stat-FAQ not-quite-a-Kwik-index

Statistical Methods for Rater Agreement (John Uebersax)

 

The Little Handbook of Statistical Practice (by Gerard E. Dallal, Ph.D)

22 statistical distributions (interactive using Excel)

RiceVirtual Lab in Statistics including elementary on-line textbook (HyperStat Online)

Collection of Biostatistics Research Archive

Higgins JPT, Green S, editors. Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions

5.1.10 [updated March 2011].

 

Links to Key Regulatory Guidance

ICH E3: Guideline for Industry – Structure and Content of Clinical Study Reports

ICH E9: Guideline for Industry – Statistical Principals for Clinical Trials

ICH E10: Guideline for Industry – Choice of Control Group

Guidance for Industry and FDA Staff Clinical Data Presentations for
Orthopedic Device Applications

 

Guidance for the Use of Bayesian Statistics in Medical Device Clinical Trials

 

DRAFT GUIDANCE: This guidance document is being distributed for comment purposes Scientific Considerations in Demonstrating Biosimilarity to a Reference Product

 

SAS

 

SAS OnlineDoc© 9.1

 

SAS MACRO SOURCES

 

SAS Coding Tips and Techniques from SAS Consultant Special Interest Group

SAS Publication Samples Library

 

Mayo Clinic Locally Written SAS Macros

 

SAS Macros that Convert a Directory of Transport Files

 

  SPSS and SAS procedures for estimating indirect effects in simple mediation models. 

Appendices A and B from Preacher, K. J., & Hayes, A. F. (2004).
 Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, and Computers, 36, 717-731

 

SAS Macros for Microarray analysis