Below is an example of a 3 day inhouse training course.
This is a three-day practical course aimed at teaching the most important basic statistical tools required by personnel of Quality Control, Quality Assurance and Research and Development Laboratories. The course includes hands-on training with Minitab® 18 software for solving a vast amount of examples and exercises by the participants from the pharmaceutical industry. The course is intended to teach you statistical tools for answering the following common questions:
This is a three-day practical course aimed at teaching the most important basic statistical tools required by personnel of Quality Control, Quality Assurance and Research and Development Laboratories. The course includes hands-on training with Minitab® 18 software for solving a vast amount of examples and exercises by the participants from the pharmaceutical industry. The course is intended to teach you statistical tools for answering the following common questions:
- Introduction
- Acquaintance with Minitab® 18
- Organization and presentation of data
- How variable are your results?
- precision, variance
- standard deviation and geometric standard deviation, outlier tests, method repeatability and intermediate precision)
- How comparable are your results?
- t-Test for a single average, for two averages, paired t-test
- uncertainty of a result
- How selective are your results?
- Types of errors: Types 1 and 2 (Example: False OOS results in testing API)
- Confounding results
- Power of a test
- Statistics of Linear Curves
- least square regression
- quality of fit to a linear curve
- when a single-point calibration curve is justified
- confidence interval of a line
- understanding the shelf-life of a drug product
- How specific are your results?
- beta error
- power of a calculation
- How equivalent are your results?
- comparability of two sets of results by two methods/instruments/Analysts
- equivalence of two methods during method transfer