Ars Statistica is based in Belgium (30 km away from Brussels). We aim to help medical doctors, biotechnological and pharmaceutical companies in designing, analyzing and reporting results of clinical trials (Phases I-IV) and observational studies.
We gained experience in the last six years in the following medical areas:
- Oncology
- Anesthesiology
- Ophthalmology
- Dentistry
- Psychiatry
- Emergency medicine
- Obstetrics
- Hematology
- Rheumatology
- …
Background
Jean-François Fils graduated from the KUBrussel in 2004 for the Master « Quantitative Analysis for the Social Sciences » (e.g.: IRT Modelling, Exploratory Factor Analysis, Unidimensional and Multidimensional Scaling, Confirmatory Factor Analysis, Multilevel Modelling, Latent Class Analysis, Structural Equation Modelling) and in 2006 from the Université catholique de Louvain with a « Master in statistics » (major in statistics in science and technology). Jean-François performed his master thesis at UCL entiteled « Longitudinal analysis of patients having been confronted with a first myocardial infarction (1985-2002) in the Province of Luxemburg ». He used therefore logistic regression/logit model and competing risk models to answer research questions.
Vision
As a famous statistician wrote almost a century ago ‘all models are wrong, some are useful’ (Box). The aim of (bio)statistics in general and statistical consulting is to increase your knowledge of your observational study or clinical trial. We therefore believe that it is important to start every project with a sound need analysis and to define, together with the customer, the research questions to be answered.
Last, Jean-François is always interested to improve his statistical skills, meaning that Ars Statistica positively accept challenges related to the mastering of new statistical analyses (e.g.: continual reassessment method, multivariate longitudinal model, propensity score (full vs non-full matching), adaptive design,…). We therefore put a lot of efforts in training to help our customers. As a result, we as customers to become co-author of their work in two cases:
1) when we followed the process of the clinical trial/observational study from the beginning until the end
2) when the statistical analysis asked us training