About

Friedrich Pahlke, PhD

Friedrich Pahlke is an independent consultant for computer and data science, medical statistics, and business analytics. He received his PhD 2008 at the University of Lübeck, Germany, and was a Research Fellow at the Institute of Medical Biometry and Statistics, University of Lübeck; major research interest during that time: statistical analysis of genetic data with R.

Friedrich Pahlke has been working full-time as a freelance computer scientist since 2008 and brings information technology know-how to the company RPACT through his many years of experience in software development. His tasks are as follows:

• Software requirements analysis
• Software functional specification and design
• Implementation of the software (programming)
• Validation, publication on CRAN, and maintenance of the software
• User interface design and improvement
• Development of the rpact Shiny app RPACT Cloud

He has a special research interest in the field of randomization for clinical trials; since 2002 he has implemented, validated and simulated several randomization algorithms in Java and R, incl. covariate and response adaptive randomization methods (e.g. Biased Coin Minimization, Doubly-adaptive Biased Coin Design).