A selection of useful links
Contents
- Contract Research Organisations (Quintiles, Covance, Parexel, Statwood etc.)
- Datasets (Interesting data-sets or reference sets for analysis)
- Drug Regulatory Agencies (MHRA, FDA, EMEA etc. and also the CONSORT statement)
- EBM (Evidence based medicine pages: Bandolier, Cochrane, NICE etc)
- Health Economics and Epidemiology
- Journals and Other Publications (SiM, BMJ, Biostatistics etc.)
- National and International Statistical Organisations (WHO, UN, ONS, CDC, OECD etc.)
- Pharma Companies
- Pharma Organisations(ABPI, PhRMA, DIA etc.)
- Pharma Web-Sites
- Publishers of Statistics Monographs (Wiley, CRC, Dekker, Springer, Cambridge , Oxford etc)
- Software Companies, Software and Shareware
- Statistical Jobs (and recruiting agents)
- Statistics about Drug Development, Commercial Databases, Register of Trials Statistical Societies and Organisations (PSI, RSS, ASA etc)
- Useful or Interesting Statistics Links (Advice, web-texts, data-sets, directories, encyclopaedias, indexes and histories)
Contract Research Organisations
aCROnordic A/S (Previously SPADILLE)
Averion International Corp.- A Clinical Research Organization (CRO) CovanceHesperion - Clinical Development Services | Hesperion
iddi - international drug development institute
IDV AG - Individuelle Datenverarbeitungssysteme München
Oxford Pharmaceutical Sciences
Robertson Centre for Biostatistics
Datasets
The Data and Story Library (DASL. Useful source of teaching examples)
Datasets for Statistical Analysis (Peter Dunn’s site)
Demographic and Health Surveys
Gabriele Uchida's data set links
G A P M I N D E R : HOME (Brilliant website with statistics for many countries over several decades)
NHLBI Limited Access Data Sets (Data sets from NHLBI clinical trials etc.)
Health Data Tools and Statistics
The Royal Statistical Society Dataset Website (Data to accompany papers in the RSS journals)
Scottish Neighbourhood Statistics, Information about Scotland's Areas
Statistical Datasets - Northumbria University, Newcastle UK
Statistical Reference Datasets (Guinea-pigs for your research)
Statistical Science Web: Data Sets
TimeWeb (Time series datasets)
World Gazeteer Global population data
Drug
Regulatory Agencies and other Related Sites
Australian Drug Evaluation Committee (ADEC)
Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC)
EMEA European Medicines Agency
FDA: Food and Drug Administration
Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare
MHRA (Medicines and Health Care Products Regulatory Agency, UK )
NICE (National Institute for Clinical Excellence)
NHS Quality Improvement Scotland
WMA - The World Medical Association
Evidence based health pages and other medical
advice
NLH - UK Database of Uncertainties about the Effects of Treatments (DUETs)
Intute: Health and Life Sciences
James Lind Library (History of controlled comparisons in medicine)
NHS Centre for Reviews and Dissemination( University of York )
National Institute for Clinical Excellence
WBMD.COM | Better Information. Better Health.
Wiley InterScience: Reference Work: The Cochrane Library 2006, Issue 3
Health Economics and
Epidemiology
HEED (Health Economics Evaluations Database)
HERU (Health Economics Research Unit) - University of Aberdeen
iHEA | International Health Economics Association
International Society For Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research
Karolinska Institute Epidemiology and Biostatistics links
Office of Health Economics Virtual Library Epidemiology
Journals and Other
Publications
Advances in Methodology and Statisticsmetodološki zvezki(Slovenian journal)ki
American Statistical Association journals (JASA, American Statistician, etc.)
Bayesian AnalysisBioMed Central | BMC Medical Research Methodology
BIOMEDICAL STATISTICS AND CLINICAL EPIDEMIOLOGY
British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology
Contemporary Clinical Trials formerly Controlled Clinical Trials (Science Direct)
The Devil's Drug Development Dictionary
IMS Publications (Annals, Statistical Science)
International Journal of Epidemiology
Instructions to Authors in the Health Sciences (3500 links from Mulford Library, University of Toledo , Ohio )
JAMA Journal of the American Medical AssociationJournal of Biopharmaceutical Statistics
Journal of Clinical Epidemiology (Science Direct)
The LancetMethods of Information in Medicine
The New England Journal of Medicine
Royal Society PublishingThe Royal Statistical Society - The Journal: Series A, B and C
Scrip World Pharmaceutical News
Statistical Issues in Drug Development
Statistics in Biopharmaceutical Research
Statistical Methods in Medical Research
TEST Magazine (Spanish Statistical Society)
National and International Statistical Organisations
Statistics Canada ( “Canadian Links Data” : this is the almost the only joke on this page.)
CDC (US Centre for Disease Control)
Eurostat (European Union's Statistical Organisation)
EuroSurveillance (European Union infectious diseases surveillance site)
Fedstats ( US Statistical umbrella organisation)
General Register Office for Scotland
INSEE - National Institute for Statistics and Economic Studies - France
ONS: Office for National Statistics (UK)
Swiss Federal Office for Statistics
United Nations Statistics Division
Pharma Companies
Lundbeck
Merck (US company)
Merck KGaA (German company)
Pharma Organisations
ABPI: Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry
CMR: Centre for Medicines Research
DIA: Drug Information Association
EPSA European Pharmaceutical Students Association
IFPMA: International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Associations
OHE: Office of Health Economics
Pharma Web-Sites (including trial summaries and
registers)
Amgen - Patients - Clinical Trials: Amgentrials.com
AstraZeneca Clinical Trials - Information on AstraZeneca-sponsored clinical trials
Boehringer Ingelheim Global Clinical Trials website: home
Bristol-Myers Squibb - Clinical Trials Disclosure
CenterWatch Database of Study Results
CMR International UK Clinical Trials Database
GlaxoSmithKline Clinical Trial Register
Pharm Web Pharmaceutical-Industry Info
Roche - Clinical Trial Protocol Registry and Results
Publishers of Statistical
Monographs
Hodder Arnold (Previously Edward Arnold)
Software
Companies, Software and Shareware
AD Model Builder (Nonlinear statistical models package from Otter Research)
AdClin : Smart Clinical Software
Adept Scientific (Market Mathcad, Maple, GenStat and many other packages in the UK )Biostat (Comprehensive Meta-analysis, Power and Precision etc.)
BUGS (Gibbs sampling software)
Cytel (StatXact, EAST etc.)
Centre for Multilevel Modelling (ML-Win etc)
Insightful (SPlus, Axum etc.)
Jim Kepner's Sample Size Calculator
Liquent Insight Suite - Thomson Scientific (Regulatory submission software)
MONOLIX (Non linear mixed effects software)NAG (GLIM)
NCSS (PASS etc.)
OriginLab (ORIGIN curve fitting and statistical analysis software)
Palisade(Decision analysis software: @RISK, Precision Tree etc)
PEST (Planning and Evaluation of Sequential Trials)
Pharsight (PK/PD clinical trials simulation software)
Phase Forward: Integrated Clinical and Safety Data Management Systems
Phastar(Clinical trials reporting tool, SAS wizards etc.)
PPD Informatics (First Pass , SAR System )
PowerSampleSize (Dupont and Plummer's sample size shareware)
PTC(Mathcad)
R Project (Free GNU statistical software)
Russ Lenth's power and sample-size pageSigmasoft_ Data management software for clinical trials
SPAD - Data Mining with the SPAD Data Mining Solution
SPC Software for Manufacturing Quality Control | DataNet Quality Systems - WinSPC.com
Statistical Solutions (BMDP, SOLAS, nQuery, EquivTest, Patient Profiles, SYSTAT, etc.)
StatSoft (Statistica etc.)
VSN (GenStat)
Wolfram Research, Inc. (Mathematica)
Statistical Jobs and Recruitment
Consultants
http://www.datashaping.com/index.shtml (Jobs dashboard of Data-Shaping Solutions)
fforde (Fforde management)Key People Occupational Health, Pharmaceutical, Health & Safety and Banking Recruitment
Maths Careers (Council for Mathematical Sciences Site)
Pharmiweb
Statistics about Drug Development, Commercial
Databases, Register of Trials etc. (See also PharmaWebsites)
ClinicalTrials.gov - Information on Clinical Trials and Human Research Studies (NIH)
General Practice Research Database
PharmGKB: The Pharmacogenetics and Pharmacogenomics Knowledge Base
WHO | International Clinical Trials Registry Platform
Statistical Societies, Networks and Organisations
Analytic Bridge (Site set up by Vincent Granville to link modellers)
ASA:American Statistical Association
Basler Biometrische Sektion (BBS)
BIAS-Biometristi dell'Industria Associati (In Italian)
SBS/BVS Belgian Statistical Society
Biopharmaceutical Section of ASA
BMS en ANed Dutch
EFMI Web Portal - Home European Federation for Medical Informatics
EFSPI European Federation of Statisticians in the Pharmaceutical Industry
ENBIS European Network for Business and Industrial Statistics
Föreningen för Medicinsk Statistik Swedish (English version)
GMDS (in German)
IMS: Institute of Mathematical Statistics
International Association for Statistical Computing
International Biometrics Society
ICSA - International Chinese Statistical Association
The International Society of Biopharmaceutical StatisticsISCB (International Society for Clinical Biostatistics)
ISI: International Statistical Institute
PSI: Statisticians in the Pharmaceutical Industry
RSS: Royal Statistical Society
SAMSI - Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute
SCT: Society for Clinical Trials SFDS (French)
SSAI Statistical Society of Australia Inc
Useful or
Interesting Statistics Links
CAST (Doug Stirling’s interactive online statistics textbook)
DataShaping - Click Fraud Detection, Data Mining, Analytical Jobs (Data Shaping Solutions’ data-mining site)
Directory of Academic Statisticians
Figures from the History of Probability & Statistics (John Aldrich’s site)
The R.A. Fisher Digital Archive ( University of Adelaide site with Fisher’s papers and correspondence)
Andrew Gelman's Blog (Famous statistical blog)
History of Statistics ( York University site)
Innocentive Open Innovation | Innovation Management (Ideas exchange for problem posers and solvers)
Interactive Statistical Calculation Pages (Part of the StatPages.net website)
International Statistical Institute’s international glossary (Stuck for the meaning of vraisemblence? In all likelihood this will help.)
Learn and Teach Genetics at S= > citable from Nature Education
Mathematics and Statistics conferences (Conference alerts)
MacTutor History of Mathematics (Site with biographies of many mathematicians)
MathWorld (Wolfram’s extremely useful maths encyclopedia)
Mitchell Max's and Joanne Lynn's interactive textbook (Interactive textbook covering many aspects of medical statistics)
Rainer's Web Site for Statisticians (Site maintained by Rainer Wuerlaender)
The SCAM project: Simplicity, Complexity and Modelling
SMART - Explorapedia of Statistical and Mathematical Techniques for use in Research and Technology
Statistical Genetics Links (Site maintained by Karen Ayres at Reading )
StatLinks (Site maintained by Nick Barrowman)
Straight Statistics (Campaigning website set up by Lord Lipsey and run by Nigel Hawkes)
UCLA Statistical Computing Resources (Excellent site giving wonderful support on many aspects of statistical computing.)
Understanding Uncertainty (Entertaining and thought-provoking site run by David Spiegelhalter)