Statistical programming grant winners 2021

Each year, the Statistics & Methodology Platform run a competition for statisticians in the SCTO’s CTU Network to develop codes or programmes that will ultimately help improve clinical research and bring fresh solutions to persisting difficulties. The winners of the 2021 competition are Dr Alan Haynes and Dr Gilles Dutilh.

In 2021, Dr Alan Haynes from the CTU Bern and Dr Gilles Dutilh from the CTU Basel won the grants for the following statistical programming packages:

Extension of presize by Dr Alan Haynes

Haynes’s project is based on presize, a tool for precision-based sample size calculation that was developed with the first platform grant in 2018. The project aims to add an option for calculating prediction scores and handling the probability of a target confidence interval.

Extension of sse: Sample Size Estimation by Dr Gilles Dutilh

Dutilh proposes further developing the sse: Sample Size Estimation tool, which is used for visualising and documenting sample size calculations. sse was written by the CTU Basel as part of the first platform grant in 2018. Dutilh’s project aims to add some desirable features that are lacking in sse, such as the visualisation of a multidimensional grid of assumptions or the power to be achieved for a given sample size.

The statistical programming competition is run by the SCTO’s Statistics & Methodology Platform.