Medical Biostatistics→

Jessica has held a working student post in medical biostatistics since August 2025. It is at the Institute for Medical Biometry and Statistics at the University Medical Centre Freiburg, under Prof. Wilhelm Sauerbrei. The work is methodological rather than analytical service. She applies EQUATOR and REMARK reporting guidelines to the review of scientific reports, which means checking whether a paper has reported what its study design obliges it to report. She also supports the STRATOS Initiative website and the Multivariable Fractional Polynomials approach, writing VBA and R and maintaining international collaborative correspondence. Running this alongside a thesis phase that began the same month has been the arrangement ever since. The two feed each other more than they compete, since a bench scientist who has spent a year auditing how results are reported writes her own results differently. Reporting standards decide whether anyone can trust a number, long before the number itself is argued about.