Clinical Metadata will be presenting their metadata and projects standards tool at the PhUse conference in Edinburgh on Tuesday 10th October. Join them to learn how Clinical Metadata can help the pharmaceutical industry manage its clinical trial metadata and data…
Phastar SAS Art Competition
Statskom’s Lead Programmer Andrew Ndikom came second in Phastar’s SAS Art Competition. http://www.phastar.co.uk/Latest-News/sasartresults.html
SAS paper review 6-Deciphering PROC COMPARE return codes/
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 tips & tricks #2 – Retrieving variable metadata within DATA Steps
In our last tips & tricks blogpost we looked at how the VARNUM function could be used to within a DATA Step to determine whether a variable was present within dataset and how this function could be used as an…
SAS tips & tricks #1 – The VARNUM function
A couple of well known ways to tell whether a variable is present in a dataset include using a PROC CONTENTS or by referring to the SASHELP.VCOLUMN Dictionary Table, a perhaps lesser known approach is to utilise the VARNUM function.…
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…