End-To-End Statistical Reporting With S-Plus, SAS and Insightful Solutions

Date: Thursday, September 25, 2008

Speaker: Michael O'Connell, Insightful Corporation

Times: 2:00pm BST; 3:00pm CEST; 9:00am EDT; 6:00am PDT

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Statisticians and programmers have significant responsibilities in the management and analysis of data. On one hand, they need a statistical and graphical analysis sand-box in order to explore and understand study data. On the other hand, they need robust, repeatable methods for production output in a regulated data management and analysis environment. For example, in the pharmaceutical world, these tasks are sometimes referred to as clinical data review and clinical study reporting, respectively.

SAS® software and S-PLUS are widely used together in data analysis environments. A typical use case involves the SAS data step for data transformation and PROC Tabulate to provide simple tabular summaries; and S-PLUS to provide graphical summaries and additional analytics, e.g. survival analysis, from the transformed SAS datasets.

This web cast describes the use of S-PLUS and Insightful Solutions for end-to-end graphical and tabular reporting including:

* The S-PLUS Connector for SAS – batch analyses using S-PLUS and SAS software, including combining S-PLUS graphics with SAS tabular output e.g. as SAS ODS html, and automated integration of S-PLUS and SAS verbose log files.
* Insightful Clinical Study Reporting – static, pixel-perfect reporting for study reports and regulatory submissions.
* Insightful Clinical Review – interactive graphical and tabular reports for exploratory analysis, data cleaning and review of clinical trials.
* Insightful Clinical Graphics – point-click graphics with generated S-PLUS code for clinical data analysis and reporting

S-PLUS and SAS software together provide a highly efficient environment for exploratory and production analysis and reporting, leveraging the strengths of each tool. The Insightful Solutions provide automated processes and software for standardized study reports that save time, standardize best practices, remove manual errors and allow high-value professionals to spend their time advancing their research programs rather than spending time churning through manual graphics and reporting tasks.

Statistical analysis software