When Jack Shostak and I first started thinking about writing a SAS book on implementing CDISC (Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium) standards, we held one truth to be self-evident: that at least some parts of the book would be outdated before it was even published. Thanks to some lucky timing […]
Working with ever-changing CDISC standards was published on SAS Users.
It’s the first PharmaSUG event I ever attended and it’s great and I plan to submit a paper for PharmaSUG 2015. Honors belonged to Mike Molter and Lex Jansen for their hardcore talks on XML and CDISC Dataset-XML respectively. Dataset-XML is basically ODM based replacement of currently wildly used SAS Version 5 Transport File. It’s […]
Bookmark it, a collection of clinical data, with full protocols and annotated CRFs by National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA):
http://datashare.nida.nih.gov/protocol/data
Clinical programmers are very familiar with the length limit of strings in CDISC compliant datasets, such as #1: variable names: <= 8 characters #2: variable labels: <= 40 characters #3: data set labels: <= 40 characters #4: data value of a single variable: <= 200 characters and they are due to the limitations of SAS […]
I didn’t blog for a while in this first half March and there are bunches of new stuff to catch up: I had a new baby! He was delivered on time (and on budget!), lions tigers and bears, oh my… His brother is Tiger so I named him, Leo. And I got the latest SAS […]
PhUSE-FDA Working Group 5 (Development of Standard Scripts for Analysis and Programming) just adopted Google Code as collaborative programming platform. Google Code is one of the most popular and respected open source software hosting sites in the world and it is definitely a good choice for PhUSE-FDA WG5. But after viewing one of WG5’s working […]
There SAS applications/procedures/features were not necessarily available since 2012. This year I paid special attention to them when began to use SAS 9.3. The following notes are totally my personal endorsement purely based my own experience as a user: XML File Reading: SAS XML Mapper SAS XML Mapper itself is not an elegant tool from […]
Last year I threw away all my SAS books (to friends and colleagues in Beijing) before moving to US. You might agree that it’s not economically bound to transport such heavy books intercontinentally! Now I just start to build my SAS library one by one. I will most probably not buy more SAS books as […]