PharmaSUG 2003: Schedule of Paper Presentations

Monday




8:00 AM - 8:30 AM DM01: The CDISC Laboratory Data Interchange Standard: Using SAS® To Read and Write CDISC Compliant Data Sets and Files TU98: SAS Tips I learnt while at Oxford

8:30 AM - 9:00 AM AD04: Choice of Development Tool for the User Interface of a Client-Server Application in a SAS® Environment



9:00 AM - 9:30 AM AD01: SAS Cluster Gene Matching: Using SAS To Manage Computer Clusters And To Perform Protein Matching SAS01: Data Exploration in the Pharmaceutical Industry EB01: A Comparison of XML and SAS Xport Files for Electronic Submission

9:30 AM - 10:00 AM EB04: Clinical Trial Online – Running SAS® on the Web without SAS/IntrNet®



10:00 AM - 10:30 AM AD05: A Web Based Clinical Data Browser DM06: Rapid Assessment of Data Set Structures SAS02: Techniques for SAS® Enabling Microsoft® Office in a Cross-Platform Environment


10:30 AM - 11:00 AM AD11: MacStat: A Statistical Analysis and Reporting System using SAS Macros, Visual Basic, and Microsoft Word DM07: Preparing the SAS® Software Programming Environment for Regulatory Submission



11:00 AM - 11:30 AM AD12: (Web) Software Development: Best Practices for Developing Enterprise Applications DM02: How are we doing? The importance of metrics and standard practices in in clincial data management and biostatistics. SAS03: What’s New in the Output Delivery System, Version 9.0

11:30 AM - 12:00 PM DM03: Techniques for the Successful Management of Laboratory Data for Clinical Research and Development



1:30 PM - 2:00 PM AD10: A Data-Driven Macro Automating the Data Presentation Process by Generating Tailored, Customizable SAS Code: Relax, let %TABGEN do your work! SAS04: Save Time Today Using SAS® Views TT20: Data Dependent Footers using Proc Report

2:00 PM - 2:30 PM AD15: %Qexcel Tackles the Challenges of Converting Data to SAS® from Excel®



2:30 PM - 3:00 PM AD13: Managing SAS Services: A System Administrator’s Guide to Enterprise Applications DM08: Building and Using Macro Libraries TT01: SAS Cluster Disk Management: Using SAS to Manage Virtual Disks on a Cluster of File Servers
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM



3:30 PM - 4:00 PM AD07: Design Considerations Used to Develop Clinical Reporting Software DM05: SAS® Techniques to Get the Most out of Oracle Clinical® TT02: Let ODS in SAS® V8 Help to Speed Up Your Electronic Clinical Study Report (e-CSR)

4:00 PM - 4:30 PM TT03: Convert ASCII Output Files to SAS® Data Sets



4:30 PM - 5:00 PM AD06: An Automation System for Generating Case Report Form Tabulations DM04: Implementing a Standardized Data Model – A Real Life Experience TT13: Have a Strange Date? - Create your own INFORMAT to deal with her.



Tuesday




8:00 AM - 8:30 AM SP01: Simulating Attrition and Visual Models of Type I and Type II Errors FDA05: SAS® Coexistence with FDA 21 CFR Part 11, how far can we get? TT14: Post-processing MPRINT Outputs to Generate Macro-Free Code


8:30 AM - 9:00 AM FDA03: Using SAS® Macros to Construct Items 5 and 11 of an Electronic Submission TT05: Using SAS to get more out of Oracle Clinical



9:00 AM - 9:30 AM SAS05: Performing Logistic Regression on Survey Data with the New SURVEYLOGISTIC Procedure FDA04: Data Definition Tables – Definition and Automation TT06: Web-Based Code Generation for Derived Data using SAS/IntrNet®

9:30 AM - 10:00 AM TT12: Bulletproofing and Knowledge Encapsulation in Statistical Macros



10:00 AM - 10:30 AM SP03: Some Analysis Methods for Behavioral Toxicology Data SAS06: SAS® Solutions for Addressing 21 CFR Part 11 Compliance -- the P21 Biomedical Knowledge Platform TT08: Date and Time Values in Clinical Trial Data

10:30 AM - 11:00 AM TT07: Punctuation in SAS Programming



11:00 AM - 11:30 AM SP09: Two Step Approach to Automatically Generate ESTIMATE Statements for Pair-wise Treatment Comparisons FDA06: ODS to RTF: Tips & Tricks SAS07: To Err Is Human, To Debug Devine

11:30 AM - 12:00 PM SP06: Clinical Effectiveness: the challenge of selecting and combining key efficacy and safety endpoints as a single utility measure



1:30 PM - 2:00 PM Overview of SAS 9 FDA01: Clinical Data Model and FDA Submissions TT04: Customizations to the SAS Multidimensional Report Viewer



2:00 PM - 2:30 PM SP08: Bayesian Analysis of Population Bioequivalence Using the Independence Chain Algorithm in PROC MIXED TU01: Access to Relational Databases Using SAS ® TT10: Pitfalls and Successes of Automating In-Text Tables for a Clinical Study Report: A Case Study
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM



3:00 PM - 3:30 PM SP07: Fast Two-Sample Permutation Tests, Even when One Sample is Large, that Efficiently Maximize Power Under Crude Monte Carlo Sampling TU03: It's Easy If You Know How: Importing, Processing, and Exporting CDISC XML with SAS® TT11: Table Lookups: From IF-THEN to Key-Indexing
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM



4:00 PM - 4:30 PM SP05: The 800 Pound Gorilla: Taking on the Challenge of Globally Standardizing AE and Medication Reporting TU05: Using Styles and Templates to Customize SAS® ODS Output TT15: Optimizing System Performance by Monitoring UNIX Server with SAS®

4:30 PM - 5:00 PM TT16: Expanding the Functionality of Min()/Max(): Finding Tied Minimum or Maximum Values and Their Contributing Variables



Wednesday




7:45 AM - 8:00 AM CC16: A SAS Macro for Producing Data Summary Tables


8:00 AM - 8:15 AM CC09: Documenting the Database: A SAS® Macro to Automate the Process TU99: Advanced Macro Programming: a few useful techniques

8:15 AM - 8:30 AM CC02: Efficient Interpolation Calculation


8:30 AM - 8:45 AM CC03: Streamlining SAS® Data Listings to Match CRF Data Flow for Use in Limited Internal Audits SAS08: Genomics Developments at SAS

8:45 AM - 9:00 AM CC04: A data dictionary. A more complete alternative to Proc contents.


9:00 AM - 9:15 AM CC05: Don’t copy this program: use SYSPARM instead TU04: Using SAS® ODS to Enhance Clinical Data Summaries: Meeting eSub Guidelines

9:15 AM - 9:30 AM CC06: Macro Functions: How to Make Them - How to Use Them


9:30 AM - 9:45 AM CC07: Making SAS Output Pretty – Creating Customized Documents for your Clients TT17: Adding a TIFF Preview to Encapsulated PostScript Graphics within the SAS® System

9:45 AM - 10:00 AM CC08: Recovering Lost Lines: Using the Whole Page with Proc Report



10:00 AM - 10:15 AM CC15: Proc Report and ODS TU06: How to fill up the TABLE with all the categories when the actual DATA has only a few: A beginner's TUTORIAL - via the DATA STEP. TT18: Various Techniques for Processing CDISC ODM XML

10:15 AM - 10:30 AM CC10: You CAN Save Your Log and View It, Too: An Improved Process for Automatically Saving the Contents of the Log and Output Windows

10:30 AM - 10:45 AM CC11: SAS® Macros for Graphical Data Analysis

10:45 AM - 11:00 AM CC12: %Addval: A SAS® Macro which completes the Cartesian Product of dataset observations for all values of a selected set of variables.



11:00 AM - 11:15 AM CC13: Reduce Paper Output When Using SAS® Proc Compare (A Validator's Dream Come True!) TU02: Introduction to SAS®/Graph SAS03a: What’s New in the Output Delivery System, Version 9.0

11:15 AM - 11:30 AM CC14: Create Directory on Windows Without the Fleeting DOS Window


11:30 AM - 11:45 AM CC01: PROC EXPLODE - Using SAS to Produce Informational Printed Pages

11:45 AM - 12:00 PM