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Björn Holzhauer

@bjoernstats.bsky.social

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Biostatistician that keeps geese, chess CM, Kaggle master, one of the authors of Applied Modelling in Drug Development opensource.nibr.com/bamdd

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Björn Holzhauer @bjoernstats.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Meanwhile on clinicaltrials.gov the trial still doesn't have results 19 years after being completed. As far as I can tell no results from it have been published in a medical journal, either.

Entry from clinicaltrials.gov showing trial results have not been disclosed 19 years after completing trial

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Björn Holzhauer @bjoernstats.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Without naming the company, this is disappointing. Company's webpage:"We are committed to disclosing the results of clinical trials on all applicable registries in accordance with applicable law." + "This clinical trial is now complete. When available, results will be posted on ClinicalTrials.gov."

Statement on a pharmaceutical company trial results page that trial results will be shared once available...

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Björn Holzhauer @bjoernstats.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

At least, I hope you'd agree that the plot with colors, annotations on the plot, large font etc. is better than these slightly exaggerated disasters you might get by taking more of a default approach.

Horrible black and white plots with too small font and visiually hard to distinguish identification of categories

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Björn Holzhauer @bjoernstats.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Is there something more clever than what the directlabels R package offers? The style of plot like in this hypothetical example (where geom_dl(method="smart.grid") worked well) is so useful. Yet, all too often it struggles to place labels well & I end up using geom_text manually.

Figure with three dose response color-coded curves for drugs labelled "Drug A" (black), "Drug B" (orange) and "Drug C" (blue) with labels directly next to the curves.

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