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Dive into CDISC Express (2): Create a New Study

Dive into CDISC Express (1): Introductory

3. Step 1 of 6: Create a new study (create_new_study.sas)
Open create_new_study.sas in C:\Program Files\CDISC Express\programs\, you can see only one line of a macro call:
%addnewstudy(studyname=my new study);

Just assign a study name to the macro variable, &studyname, e.g, “CLINCAP”:
%addnewstudy(studyname= CLINCAP);

Submit the codes, you can find a folder named “CLINCAP” with the […]

Who is Miss SAS Answers?

Dear Miss SAS Answers, I have several questions for you: Who are you really? What’s up with the Miss SAS Answers character, anyway? Will you answer all of my SAS questions? Signed, Curious The answer to that last question is, “Well, maybe. I know the…

A third year of entries!

Contrary to previous reports, we started blogging after our book was published, with the conceit that we were adding examples to the book. Today marks the second anniversary of the book’s appearance and of the blog. To celebrate, we’re turning over o…

A third year of entries!

Contrary to previous reports, we started blogging after our book was published, with the conceit that we were adding examples to the book. Today marks the second anniversary of the book’s appearance and of the blog. To celebrate, we’re turning over o…

A third year of entries!

Contrary to previous reports, we started blogging after our book was published, with the conceit that we were adding examples to the book. Today marks the second anniversary of the book’s appearance and of the blog. To celebrate, we’re turning over o…

Dive into CDISC Express (1): Introductory

Recently I did for my personal project some research on Clinovo’s open source application, CDISC Express, a SAS application based on Excel framework designed to map clinical data to CDISC SDTM domains automatically. Not perfect yet, but it is easily understandable and practically usable after few hours’ of exploration of user guide. And most important, […]

Example 8.42: skewness and kurtosis and more moments (oh my!)

While skewness and kurtosis are not as often calculated and reported as mean and standard deviation, they can be useful at times. Skewness is the 3rd moment around the mean, and characterizes whether the distribution is symmetric (skewness=0). Kurtos…