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The HRB-TMRN are delighted to announce plans for a 1 day course in October 2015: An Introduction to Economic Evaluation alongside randomised controlled trials. Places will be limited. Expressions of interest can be sent to hrb-tmrn@nuigalway.ie  

 An eager classroom of Logistic Regression enthusiasts attended this years Summer School (June 17th & 18th), which was delivered by Dr John Newell HRB-CRF / NUI Galway and Prof George McCabe, Purdue University. The theme of the summer school was understanding and implementing Translational Statistics through logistic regression. Welcome visitors were from Galway, Dublin and Norway, along with Prof

The HRB-TMRN is delighted to welcome Professor George P. McCabe to NUI Galway. Professor McCabe is affiliated with the Department of Statistics and is Associate Dean for Academic Affairs for the College of Science at Purdue University and co-author of the globally used Introduction to the Practice of Statistics, currently in its 8th edition, and a business statistics text, currently

http://www.cochrane.org/ One of the major challenges facing researchers doing trials is maintaining the momentum for recruitment. Valerie Smith a research midwife from the Health Research Board’s Trials Methodology Research Network in Ireland, tells us about one of her strategies, based on the power of tea. http://www.cochrane.org/podcasts/ICT-day-2015/the-power-of-tea 

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text disable_pattern=”true” align=”left” margin_bottom=”0″]To mark International Clinical Trials Day on May 20th 2015, we held national writing competition in association with ‘The Irish Times’. It was open to patients, clinicians, researchers, academics and people working in industry with the aim of conveying to a general audience the importance and value of conducting clinical trial research. We

PRECIS-2 is a tool to help trialists make design decisions consistent with the intended purpose of their trial. This paper gives guidance on how to use an improved, validated version, PRECIS-2, which has been developed with the help of over 80 international trialists, clinicians, and policymakers. Keeping the original simple wheel format, PRECIS-2 has nine

The HRB-TMRN are delighted to include several international experts in Trial Methodology in delivering one of our monthly webinars. These include; Professor Declan Devane, Professor Peter Sandercock, Prof Shaun Treweek and Dr Christine Domegan. Join us live to interact with speakers and ask questions. Click here to view the full webinar listing. For previously recording webinars please click here.

Need to learn more about Logistic Regression? Check out our beginners course in NUI Galway this summer. This course is led by Dr John Newell, NUI Galway and the Clinical Research Facility Galway with Prof George McCabe, Purdue University. Course Content: Binary data: examples, summaries, probability and odds Why is logistic regression required? Fitting and interpreting the Logistic