This week our SAS paper review looks at “Deciphering PROC COMPARE Codes: The Use of the bAND Function ” by Joseph Hinson and Margaret Coughlin of Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp. PROC COMPARE is often seen as the gold standard for validating…
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This week our SAS paper review looks at “TIPS AND TRICKS OF EFFICIENT SAS® PROGRAMMING FOR SDTM DATA ” by Eric Qi and Fikret Karahoda of Merck & Co. The paper examines problems which can result from processing and storing large SDTM datasets and…
SAS paper review #4
This week our SAS paper review looks at “Non Printable & Special Characters: Problems and how to overcome them” by Sridhar R Dodlapati, Praveen Lakkaraju, Naresh Tulluru and Zemin Zeng. The paper looks at the problems which can be caused when non-printable…
SAS paper review #3
This week our SAS paper review looks at “A Closer Look at PROC SQL’s FEEDBACK Option” by Kenneth W. Borowiak. The paper explores how the FEEDBACK option can be used in the SQL statement to cause SAS to create additionally detailed…
SAS paper review #2
This week our SAS paper review focusses on “Proc Format, a Speedy Alternative to Sort / Sort / Merge” by Jenine Milum. The paper explains how Proc Format can be used to combine information from multiple datasets in place of…
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This week we would like to draw attention to a paper written by Naren Surampalli entitled “The power of using options COMPLETETYPES and PRELOADFMT”. This paper investigates a scenarios that occurs regularly in clinical trials when generating summary tables for…
Introducing our SAS ® paper reviews
Each week we review a statistical programming, SAS ® or life sciences paper that we have found especially informative or that we think will be of particular use for the statistical programmer working in the life sciences industry. The papers we…