Conveners
Award session, young statistician and best manager: Joan Borràs-Ferrís and Bruno Boulanger, Greenfield challenge: Jonathan Smyth-Renshaw
- Jacqueline Asscher (Kinneret College, Technion)
Causality is a fundamental concept in the scientific learning paradigm. For this purpose, deterministic models are always desirable, but they are often unfeasible due to the lack of knowledge. In such cases, empirical models fitted on process data can be used instead. Moreover, the advent of Industry 4.0 and the growing popularity of the Big Data movement have caused a recent shift in process...
In the pharmaceutical industry, the use of statistics has been largely driven by clinical development, an area where frequentist statistics have been and remain dominant. This approach has led to numerous successes when considering the various effective treatments available to patients today.
However, over time, Null Hypothesis Significance Testing (NHST) and related Type-I error thinking...