statisticians in the pharmaceutical industry statisticians in the pharmaceutical industry statisticians in the pharmaceutical industry, abbreviated to psi, is an organisation for the promotion of statistical thinking in order to improve the quality of research and development in the pharmaceutical industry. psi is a non-profit organisation formed in 1977 which was later converted to a company limited by guarantee, a process which was completed in january 2003. psi achieves its vision by providing a forum for regular discussion of statistics and matters relating to the practice of statistics in the pharmaceutical industry, as well as promoting good statistical practice within the industry. psi's membership is around 1000 statisticians from across the pharmaceutical industry and academia. about 80% of these are uk based. psi hosts an annual three day conference for its members, as well as several one-day meetings and training courses. it publishes a quarterly newsletter "spin" and sponsors the international journal "pharmaceutical statistics", published by john wiley & sons. psi is a member of the european federation of statisticians in the pharmaceutical industry (efspi). psi conference since 1978 psi has held a conference annually, usually in england. on five occasions the conference has been held outside england (in cardiff, brussels, glasgow, berlin and amsterdam). the full list of conference locations is listed below: the psi annual conference year location psi chair 1978 the falcon hotel, stratford-upon-avon jorgen seldrup, geigy 1979 university of oxford, jesus college, oxford john lewis, ici 1980 university of cambridge, newnham college, cambridge john lewis, ici 1981 university of nottingham, lincoln hall, nottingham alan ebbutt, ciba-geigy 1982 university of york, wentworth college, york chris hallett, roche 1983 university of bristol, wills hall, bristol chris hallett, roche 1984 university of oxford, st hilda's college, oxford 1985 university of sheffield, sorby hall, sheffield david robinson, glaxo 1986 university of southampton, the murray building, southampton john shelton, searle 1987 the cairn hotel, harrogate john shelton, searle 1988 the prince of wales hotel, southport richard hews, pfizer 1989 atlantic tower hotel, liverpool cynthia haliburn, sk&f labs 1990 the viking hotel, york alec vardy, duphar 1991 the grand hotel, bristol alec vardy, duphar 1992 hospitality inn, brighton phil poole, sterling winthrop 1993 the grand hotel, bristol phil poole, pfizer 1994 hilton national hotel, coventry mick godley, zeneca 1995 the imperial hotel, blackpool mick godley, zeneca 1996 de vere royal bath hotel, bournemouth david morgan, hmr 1997 stratford moat house hotel, stratford-upon-avon david morgan, hmr 1998 the old swan hotel, harrogate andy grieve, pfizer 1999 de vere grand harbour hotel, southampton andy grieve, pfizer 2000 stakis metropole hotel, brighton john chapman, quintiles 2001 carden park hotel, chester john chapman, quintiles 2002 sopwell house hotel, st albans sue mckeown, procter & gamble 2003 tortworth court hotel, wotton-under-edge sue mckeown, procter & gamble 2004 carden park hotel, chester kerry gordon, quintiles 2005 city hall, cardiff (joint meeting with royal statistical society) kerry gordon, quintiles 2006 tortworth court hotel, wotton-under-edge paul worthington, chiltern international 2007 carden park hotel, chester paul worthington, takeda 2008 the hotel, brussels (joint meeting with efspi) sara hughes, glaxosmithkline 2009 hilton metropole hotel, brighton sara hughes, glaxosmithkline 2010 midland hotel, manchester stephen pyke, pfizer 2011 cotswold water park, south cerney stephen pyke, pfizer 2012 the belfry, sutton coldfield katherine hutchinson, quanticate 2013 grand central hotel, glasgow katherine hutchinson, quanticate 2014 the tower hotel, london robert cuffe, viiv healthcare 2015 millennium gloucester hotel, london robert cuffe, viiv healthcare 2016 pullman hotel, berlin mark morris, conatus pharmaceuticals 2017 grange tower bridge hotel, london nigel howitt, covance 2018 beurs van berlage, amsterdam nigel howitt, covance 2019 queen elizabeth ii centre, london nigel howitt, covance 2020 webinar series lucy rowell, roche 2021 online conference lucy rowell, roche 2022 gothia towers, gothenburg chrissie fletcher, gsk footnotes ^ the abbreviation psi is chosen in preference to the more literal spi to avoid connotations with the word "spy", and to tie in with the greek letter ψ - greek letters playing a substantial part in statistics. ψ was the original logo of psi. ^ the 2020 conference had been scheduled to take place in barcelona but was changed to a webinar series because of the covid-19 pandemic.