Red Door Analytics
Service areas

Consultancy, training, and software development

Each service is led by a named expert, and most engagements draw on more than one. Working with Swedish or Nordic registers? See real-world evidence. Looking for our open-source packages (merlin, morgana, pendragon, multistate, survsim)? Those live under Software — this page is about bespoke work we do for you.

01 · CONSULTANCY

Applied biostatistics

Applied biostatistics for medical research teams — study design, analysis, and interpretation of clinical, epidemiological, and registry data, with the methods and software to do it right. From a single study through to embedded leadership across a programme.

  • Design and analysis of clinical, epidemiological, and real-world evidence studies
  • Custom methodology for non-standard analyses
  • Statistical analysis plans, protocols, and reviewer-response support
  • Methods reviews and second-opinion engagements
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02 · TRAINING

Advanced training courses

Internationally recognised short courses on survival analysis, joint modelling, multistate, longitudinal, and competing-risks methods — open-enrolment and bespoke in-house.

  • Open-enrolment short courses through the year
  • Bespoke in-house training scoped to your team
  • The annual RDA Winter School in Stockholm
  • Taught by the people who develop the methods
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03 · BESPOKE SOFTWARE

Bespoke software development

Custom statistical software for methods that don't exist off the shelf — bespoke estimators and likelihoods, and integration into reproducible analysis pipelines, with validated, qualified releases for regulated use where you need them.

  • Bespoke estimation routines and custom likelihoods
  • Integration into reproducible analysis pipelines
  • Maintenance and support for deployed tools
  • Qualified releases for regulated and HTA use (in preparation)
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Bespoke software

We build the software our own analyses run on

The merlin family is our own work, maintained in both ecosystems. The same engineering applies when we build for someone else's team — and it is why we can build methods that do not exist off the shelf rather than assembling ones that do.

What we have published

Twenty-five open-source packages in R and Stata — the merlin family and the specialist commands around it — fourteen of them published on SSC. Browse the index →

How it is engineered

merlin for R's last run with no skipped tests passed 26,827 assertions. Releases are built from a tagged, signed commit with a deterministic pipeline. Qualified releases for regulated use are in preparation, not yet open. Validated →

What a build covers

Bespoke estimation routines and custom likelihoods, integrated into reproducible analysis pipelines, with maintenance and support once deployed. For the R side of that work, see merlin for R →.

How we work

Engagements that fit the problem

Who we work with

Built for medical research teams

One team, four kinds of partner — most engagements draw on more than one of our services.

Academic research groups

Methods support on a specific study, co-authored methodology and simulation studies, and getting the statistics right for grant-funded work — including register-based studies — from a single consult to an ongoing collaboration.

Pharma & HEOR

Survival extrapolation, indirect comparisons, and HTA-ready analyses — see merlin for HTA — with qualified, procurement-defensible releases in preparation for where you need them.

CROs

Methods capacity and second-opinion review for non-standard analyses, scoped to slot into your delivery.

HTA & market access

Defensible survival and multi-state modelling for submissions to NICE, CADTH, IQWiG, HAS and others — built by the people who wrote the methods. Start at merlin for HTA.

Have a research problem in mind?

Tell us what you're working on. We'll tell you honestly whether we're the right people — and if so, propose the shape of engagement that fits.

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