SAS Clinical training provides insight on the practical aspects of clinical trials. How to design, analyze and generate reports are explained in support of real time data. The skills of writing SAS programs, importing/exporting data and transforming it further for performing analysis on it is imparted by the industry experts. The training will equip the candidates with theoretical knowledge, practical experience, detailed description of programs, and key techniques involved in the clinical trial analysis.
By the end of SAS Clinical training you will exhibit the following capabilities:
- Illustrate the fundamental knowledge of trial designs, alternative trial designs and statistical analysis
- Access, manage, and transform clinical trials data
- Create tables, listings, and clinical trial graphs
- Use PROC REQ and PROC UNIVARIATE to export descriptive statistics
- Work on the analysis of stratified data
- Interpret various methods used for multiple comparisons and multiple endpoints
- Decide reference intervals for safety and diagnostic measures
- Evaluate results from incomplete data
Target audience
- Life Science or Bioinformatics graduates
- SAS programmer
- Clinical Programmer
Prerequisites
- Knowledge of Base SAS
- Deep understanding of clinical programming concepts
- Basic understanding of statistics
Module I: Clinical Trials a Practical Guide to Design, Analysis, and Reporting
Fundamentals of Trial Design
- Randomized Clinical Trials
- Uncontrolled Trials
- Protocol Development
- Endpoints
- Patient Selection
- Source and Control of Bias
- Randomization
- Blinding
- Sample Size and Power
Alternative Trial Designs
- Crossover Trials
- Factorial Design
- Equivalence Trials
- Bioequivalence Trials
- Noninferiority Trials
- Cluster Randomized Trials
- Multicenter Trials
Basics of Statistical Analysis
- Types of Data and Normal Distribution
- Significance Tests and Confidence Intervals
- Comparison of Means
- Comparison of Proportions
- Analysis of Survival Data 235
Special Trial Issues in Data Analysis
- Intention-to-Treat Analysis
- Subgroup Analysis
- Regression Analysis
- Adjustment for Covariates
- Confounding
- Interaction
- Repeated Measurements
- Multiplicity
- Missing Data
- Interim Monitoring and Stopping Rules
Reporting of Trials
- Overview of Reporting
- Trial Profile
- Presenting Baseline Data
- Use of Tables
- Use of Figures
- Critical Appraisal of a Report
- Meta-Analysis
Module II: SAS® Programming in the Pharmaceutical Industry
Environment and Guiding Principles
- Preparing and Classifying Clinical
- Importing Data
- Transforming Data and Creating Analysis
- Creating Tables and Listings
- Creating Tables
- General Approach to Creating Tables
- Using PROC TABULATE to Create Clinical Trial Tables
- Using PROC REPORT to Create Clinical Trial Tables
- Creating Continuous/Categorical Summary Tables
- Creating Adverse Event Summaries
- Creating Concomitant or Prior Medication Tables
- Creating a Laboratory Shift Table
Creating Clinical Trial Graphs
- Common Clinical Trial Graphs
- Scatter Plot
- Line Plot
- Bar Chart
- Box Plot
- Odds Ratio Plot
- Kaplan-Meier Survival Estimates Plot
Performing Common Analyses and Obtaining
- Statistics
- Obtaining Descriptive Statistics
- Using PROC FREQ to Export Descriptive Statistics
- Using PROC UNIVARIATE to Export Descriptive Statistics
- Obtaining Inferential Statistics from Categorical Data Analysis
- Performing a 2x2 Test for Association
- Performing an NxP Test for Association
- Performing a Stratified NxP Test for Association
- Performing Logistic Regression
- Obtaining Inferential Statistics from Continuous Data Analysis
- Performing a One-Sample Test of the Mean
- Performing a Two-Sample Test of the Means
- Performing an N-Sample Test of the Means
- Obtaining Time-to-Event Analysis Statistics
- Obtaining Correlation Coefficients
- General Approach to Obtaining Statistics
Exporting Data- The Future of SAS Programming in Clinical Trials
- Changes in the Business Environment
- Changes in Technology
- Changes in Regulations
- Changes in Standards
- Use of SAS Software in the Clinical Trial Industry
Module III: Analysis of Clinical Trials Using SAS
Analysis of Stratified Data
- Introduction
- Continuous Endpoints
- Categorical Endpoints
- Time-to-Event Endpoints
- Tests for Qualitative Interactions
Multiple Comparisons and Multiple Endpoints
- Introduction
- Single-Step Tests
- Closed Testing Methods
- Fixed-Sequence Testing Methods
- Resampling-Based Testing Methods
- Testing Procedures for Multiple Endpoints
- Gatekeeping Strategies
Analysis of Safety and Diagnostic Data
- Introduction
- Reference Intervals for Safety and Diagnostic Measures
- Analysis of Shift Tables
Interim Data Monitoring
- Introduction
- Repeated Significance Tests
- Stochastic Curtailment Tests
- Analysis of Incomplete Data
- Introduction
- Case Studies
- Data Setting and Modeling Framework
- Analysis of Complete Growth Data
- Simple Methods and MCAR
- Available Case Methods
- Likelihood-Based Ignorable Analyses
- Multiple Imputations
- The EM Algorithm
- Categorical Data
- MNAR and Sensitivity Analysis