PharmaSUG 2004 Best Papers

The Pharmaceutical Industry SAS^® Users Group would like to congratulate the following best paper paper recipients:

APPLICATIONS DEVELOPMENT
Nick Paszty, XOMA (US) LLC,
"Building a Powerful Clinical Decision Support System Using SAS/IntrNet"

Tim Williams, PRA International,
"Version Control on the Cheap. A User-Friendly, Cost-Effective Revision
Control System for SAS"

CODER'S CORNER
Jim Box and Joey Morris, RTI International,
"Backups at the Click of the Mouse"

Dirk Spruck and Monika Kawohl, Covidence GmbH,
"Using SAS to Speed up Annotation Case Report Forms in PDF Format"

DATA MANAGEMENT
Kim Truett, independent,
"A SAS Macro for Rapid Identification of Missing Data Records"

Sandra Minjoe, Genentech, Inc.,
"Use That SAP to Write Your code" [statistical analysis plan]

FDA COMPLIANCE: ELECTRONIC SUBMISSION & VALIDATON
Sy Truong, Meta-Xceed, Inc.
"Data Standards with and without CDISC"

Michael Harris, Amgen, Inc.,
"Using Cyclomatic Complexity to Assess Test Coverage for SAS Programs"

POSTERS
Yan Lei, GlaxoSmithKline,
"Be Careful When You Merge SAS Datasets"

STATISTICS & PHARMACOKINETICS
Paul Juneau, Pfizer Global Research & Development
"Simultaneous Nonparametric Inference in a One-Way Layout Using the SAS System"

TECHNICAL TECHNIQUES
Hong Zhang, Merck & Co, Inc.,
"%Cox_PH -- An enhancement of SAS Proc PHREG"

Richann Watson, Kendle International Inc.
"Generating Least Ssquare Means, Standard Error, Observed Mean, Standard Deviation, and Confidence Intervals for Treatment Differences Using Proc Mixed"

TUTORIALS
Kirk Paul Lafler and C.E.Shipp, Software Intelligence Corporation
"A Visual Introduction to SQL Joins"