Edited by: Olivier Collignon, Ekkehard Glimm and Lei Nie
Pharmaceutical Statistics is an international, multidisciplinary journal publishing papers on the practical application of statistics in the pharmaceutical industry. Our authors use statistical methods and thinking to shape all stages of drug development, from discovery to production, covering development, post-marketing surveillance, consumer health, epidemiology, and health economics. We also publish tutorial papers that facilitate communication between practitioners, researchers, educators and policy makers, so they can collaborate to improve statistical approaches in the pharmaceutical industry.
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- 42%Acceptance rate
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Call for Papers
Project Optimus: Designing Early Phase Dose Optimization Trials in Oncology
Deadline for Submissions: 31 December 2025
Articles
A General Approach for Sample Size Calculation With Nonproportional Hazards and Cure Rates
-  6 July 2025
Estimating the Variance of Covariate‐Adjusted Estimators of Average Treatment Effects in Clinical Trials With Binary Endpoints
-  25 June 2025
Personalized Treatment Selection for Multivariate Ordinal Scale Outcomes and Multiple Treatments
-  24 June 2025
Further Practical Guidance on Adjusting Time‐To‐Event Outcomes for Treatment Switching
-  21 June 2025
Applying Bias Correction Methods to Build Hybrid Controls Using Real-World Patients for a Phase IIb Randomized Controlled Trial of Baricitinib for Rheumatoid Arthritis
-  10 June 2025
The following is a list of the most cited articles based on citations published in the last three years, according to CrossRef.
Optimal caliper widths for propensity‐score matching when estimating differences in means and differences in proportions in observational studies
-  150-161
-  29 March 2011
Sample size of 12 per group rule of thumb for a pilot study
-  287-291
-  24 November 2005
Guidelines for accurate EC50/IC50 estimation
-  128-134
-  29 March 2011
Use of historical control data for assessing treatment effects in clinical trials
-  41-54
-  5 August 2013
Assessing the quality of studies in meta‐research: Review/guidelines on the most important quality assessment tools
-  185-195
-  15 September 2020
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