Re: st: RE: clinical trials

["E. Paul Wileyto" <epw@mail.med.upenn.edu>]

The answer is political, not technical.

We use Stata for clinical trials, but we are in the academic sphere, and 
not beholden to the FDA. FDA requires that SAS format be used for 
reporting, which gives them an edge. It is also one of the reasons that 
Stata has FDAsave as an export option. It's also why all the drug 
companies want SAS programmers and nothing else.

Paul

Newson, Roger B wrote:

> I personally use Stata to analyse clinical trial data, and to do the
> power calculations beforehand. However, as you say, most of the
> mainstream corporate clinical trials sector uses SAS. A lot of the
> reason for this seems to be inertia, including the perception that
> regulators will be frightened by a clinical trial report produced using
> anything other than SAS. I don't think there is much that Stata can't do
> that SAS can in that field, xcept to have the look and feel of SAS.
>
> Roger
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> [mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of David Airey
> Sent: 03 January 2008 14:32
> To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> Subject: st: clinical trials
>
> .
>
> Does anyone on the list use Stata for clinical trials analysis? I get  
> the impression companies that specialize in this field use SAS almost  
> exclusively. From what I know of Stata's feature set, I don't think  
> this is because Stata cannot be use to perform analysis of clinical  
> trials data. SAS certainly pushes this area of use with SAS, and they  
> have several SAS published how-to texts.
>
> -Dave
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