Sanjay Matange - Clinical Graphs Using SAS

Sanjay Matange

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The correct bibliographic citation for this manual is as follows: Matange, Sanjay. 2016. Clinical Graphs Using SAS. Cary, NC: SAS Institute Inc.

Clinical Graphs Using SAS

Copyright 2016, SAS Institute Inc., Cary, NC, USA

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SAS users in the Health and Life Sciences industry need to create complex graphs so that biostatisticians and clinicians can use them for analysis of the data. The graphs are also used for submissions to FDA for drug approvals. These graphs have specific requirements and must be designed to deliver the data accurately and clearly without distractions. Many users do not have the skills with SAS graphics tools such as Statistical Graphics (SG) procedures and the Graph Template Language (GTL) to create such graphs. This book provides the know-how and the code to create the graphs that are commonly used in this industry.

This book is for the SAS graphics programmer who is responsible for creating sophisticated graphs for the analysis of clinical trials data. Most of these graphs are not automatically created by some analytical procedure, and must be custom built. However, many of these graphs are commonly used in the Health and Life Sciences industry, and there is an effort in the industry to standardize. This book describes how to create such graphs for intermediate and advanced graph programmers.

Some knowledge of SAS DATA step programming may be required to get the data into the shape needed for the graphs. Knowledge of SG procedures and GTL will be helpful, but is not required.

This book includes detailed instructions about how to create some of the standard, commonly used graphs for analysis of data in the Health and Life Sciences industry. The book provides some introductory information on the use of SG procedures and GTL.

However, this book does not cover the features of SG procedures or of GTL in depth. Such comprehensive information is beyond the scope of this book.

All the graphs shown in this book are generated using SAS 9.4 or SAS 9.3.

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