Margaret Maclennan (Consultant Statistician)
Margaret is an enthusiastic Chartered Statistician with strong statistical skills developed in a range of industries, most recently Pharmaceutical and Medical Devices, and previously in Electronics, Health Care and the Water Industry, all within a regulated environment. She has experience in a variety of business areas including R&D, manufacturing, clinical, post market surveillance, marketing and customer service engineering. In her early career Margaret taught mathematics and chemistry at secondary school level.
She enjoys using analytical skills to provide insight from the large amount of data available and has applied this to support scientific understanding, evidence based decision making and create opportunity for competitive advantage, providing significant business benefits. Her interest in business and the growing complexity of datasets led to further study to gain an MBA (1992) and MScIT(2002) from the University of Glasgow to complement her original BSc. hons Mathematics from Paisley College of Technology.
Margaret loves nature and is very happy living in an area with easy access to the abundance of beautiful hill walks.
How can I help?
I can provide support to specific problem solving, develop understanding of complex data and develop statistical capability within your organisation.
The following is a sample of the areas where I can assist you on specific problem solving or support. Please contact me to discuss your specific needs
- Identify patterns hidden in your data
- Provide insight from large datasets
- Develop statistical/mathematical models from multivariate, complex data
- Determine sample size to provide meaningful experiments/studies
- Determine what factors are causing variation
- Help select the most appropriate experimental design to suit your constraints in costs and timescales
- Provide interim management and develop statistical capability in your organisation
- Mentor team or statistician in unfamiliar statistical methods and software
- Provide cover when you have a temporary absence
- Develop statistical training tailored to your needs
Skills and Experience
Chartered Statistician with strong statistical skills developed in a range of regulated industries including Pharmaceutical, Medical Devices, Electronics, Health Care and Water with experience in R & D, manufacturing, clinical, post market surveillance, marketing, reliability engineering and asset management
Uses analytical skills to support scientific understanding, evidence based decision making and create opportunity for competitive advantage. Use skills to provide significant business benefits.
- Identifying influential factors and developing predictive mathematical models of key variables in an efficient manner (Design of Experiments)
- Exploring and modelling large datasets to identify relationships/patterns e.g. Process Analytics, Health Informatics, Business Analytics (Multivariate Analysis)
- All key statistical methods (e.g. sample size determination, regression, correlation, ANOVA, general linear models, etc)
- Statistics for Six Sigma (Identify sources of variation, Statistical Process Control, Process Capability) and Statistical Engineering (Reliability)
- Developing non linear mathematical models for decision making and planning
- Developing statistics capability of individual/organisation as an experienced manager
- Provide training/mentoring, both as a trainer and qualified teacher
- Data management, data set creation using large data sets, programming and macro development
- Experienced in key statistical software packages, including
- SAS Base , Enterprise Guide and JMP
- Design Expert DX7
- Simca-P
- Minitab
- Excel add ins Analyse-IT, What’s Best
Application areas
- Design of Experiments
- Multivariate Data Analysis
- Process Capability
- Sample Size Determination
- Modelling
- Method Development and Validation
- Calibration
- Chemometrics
- Variation.....Six Sigma
- Reliability
- Business Statistics
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