Pharmaceutical statistics

Pharmaceutical statistics is the application of statistics to matters concerning the pharmaceutical industry. This can be from issues of design of experiments, to analysis of drug trials, to issues of commercialisation of a medicine.

Additional recommended knowledge

Essential Laboratory Skills Guide

How to ensure accurate weighing results every day?

How to quickly check pipettes?

There are many professional bodies concerned with this field including:

European Federation of Statisticians in the Pharmaceutical Industry (EFSPI)

Statisticians In The Pharmaceutical Industry (PSI)

There are also many journals including:

Statistics in Medicine

Pharmaceutical Statistics

Biometrics

Biometrika