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Application Development

• Fast and Efficient Updates to Project Deliverables: The Unix/GNU Make Facility as a Cross-Platform Batch Controller for SAS   - Brian Fairfield-Carter (ICON Clinical Research), Stephen Hunt (ICON Clinical Research, Canada) 
  
  
• SmryLibname: A Data Review Routine For All Memnames in a Libname - Ronald Fehd (Centers for Disease Control)
  
  
• Automate compiling Clinical Appendix Tables and Listings into a Review Package - Wei Zhang and Bob Cui (Sanofi-Aventis)
  
  

• One-Step Change from Baseline Calculations - Nancy Brucken (i3 Statprobe)
  
  
• Keeping your macro robust: Does your dataset exist, does your variable exist? - Lara E.H. Guttadauro (i3 Statprobe)
  
  
• Table Numbers - Chaos to Simplicity - Michael F. Stout (DePuy Orthopaedics, Inc., a Johnson & Johnson company)
  
  

• Identifying and Surfacing Data Changes for Effective Quality Management - Stetson Line and Scot Bahlavooni (Genentech, Inc.)
  
  

• Quality Oversight Measured By Complexity Metrics - Hui-Ping Chen and Mark Matthews (Eli Lilly and Company) 
  

• %CHCKFRQS - A Macro Application for Generating Frequencies for QC and Simple Reports - John R Iwaniszek, Natalie Walker, Laura J Lovette (Stat-Tech Services, LLC)
  
  
• Text Mining to Summarize Complicated Datasets Containing Structured, Nominal Data - Hamed Zahedi (University of Louisville)
  
  
• Simple Methods for Creating a Flexible Reference Range by Using PROC FORMAT or PROC SQL Cartesian Join, to identify the Subject had Violation of Scheduled Visits from a Clinical Trial - Xinping Wu (Baxter Healthcare Corporation)
  
  

• The Use of Propensity Scores and Instrumental Variable Methods to Adjust For Treatment Selection Bias - R. Scott Leslie (MedImpact Healthcare Systems, Inc.)
  
  

• Validating CDISC SDTM-Compliant Submission-Ready Clinical Datasets with an In-House SAS®Macro-Based Solution - Bhavin A. Busa, Sheila Vince, Jameelah Aziz (Cubist Pharmaceuticals Inc.)
  
  
• Experiences Submitting CDISC SDTM and JANUS Compliant Datasets - Carol R Vaughn and Greg Ridge (Sanofi-Aventis)
  
  

• A SAS® Macro for Single Imputation - Shuping Zhang, Jane Liao and Xingshu Zhu (Merck & Co., Inc.)
  
  
• Approximate Simultaneous Nonparametric Confidence Intervals for All Pair-Wise Comparisons and Comparisons with a Designated (Control) Group in a One-Way Layout Using the SAS® System - Paul Juneau, Aditya Sikka, Jiawei Qiao and Michelle Gayari (MMS Holdings, Inc.)
  
  

• Automate the process of removing highly correlated covariates for multivariate logistic regression - Michael C. Doherty and Xiaochun Zhang (i3 Drug Safety)
  
  
• Adding Control to Your Data Using SAS System and Dataset Options - David W. Franklin (Independent Consultant)
  
  

• ODS Statistical Graphics 101 - Wei Cheng (Isis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.)
  
  
• The Logic and Logistics of Logistic Regression - Lawrence Rasouliyan (ICON Clinical Research)