David Bock, PhD, Associate professor

I´m a biostatistician and associate professor with a long a experience in various roles both within academia and the pharmaceutical industry.

My primary focus is to contribute to the increasing knowledge on how to improve the life of patients. I have experience with the evaluation of pharmaceuticals (asthma, COPD, obesity, reflux disease) and cancer surgery (for example open vs laparoscopic technique for colorectal and prostate cancer).

Main methodological interests:

• Clinical trial design and analysis
• Bayesian statistics
• Causal inference
• Clinical prediction models
• Philosophy of science in general

Current position:

Statistical Science Associate Director at AstraZeneca, Sweden

Previous positions:

• Senior lecturer, Institute of Medicine, Goteborg University
• Researcher, Scandinavian Surgical Outcomes Research Group (SSORG), Sahlgrenska University Hospital
• Part time freelance statistical consultant

I can be reached by davidbock76@gmail.com

My CV is available here PDF.

Blog posts

• 2022/03/29 How to calculate the posterior distribution
• 2021/08/08 Evaluating study data in a meaningful way after the study is completed
• 2021/07/29 Interim analysis for early stopping during the study
• 2021/07/27 Predicting the probability of rejecting H0 before running the study
• 2021/07/25 Bayesian analysis of a very simple example