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Role of SAS in Clinical Research:
- SAS is widely used in clinical data analysis in pharmaceutical, biotech and clinical research companies.
- SAS programmers play an important role in clinical trial data analysis.
- In addition to doctors and clinicians as a part of research team,other s include , group conducting data analysis such as statisticians, clinical data managers (CDMs) and SAS programmers.
- SAS programmers analyze the collected data to generate summary tables, data listing and graphs for statisticians and or clinicians to write study report.
- SAS also plays a role in protocol development, the randomization process, CRF designing, adverse event reporting etc.
- Programming — Data could be read from variety of sources, and report could be generated many file formats such as rtf, excel, pdf, ppt, csv, html etc.
- Programmer s with combined skills in the SAS and other standard programming language (PL/sql, COBOL, Assembler or FORTRAN) could accomplish the tasks more quickly with SAS .
- SAS tools are used to explore clinical outcomes and risk tolerances to improve quality.
- Data management system – SAS could be used to create, alter, update, maintain and secure database through SQL.
- Other statistical software can generate their results into SAS datasets for use in the SAS.
- Research data is submitted to FDA in SAS Transport File format(.xpt)
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