-- SAS Press releases Analysis of Clinical Trials Using SAS®: A Practical Guide --

3 May 2005 - It is estimated that nearly 10,000 clinical studies are conducted every year around the world. While there are many useful texts that address the fundamental statistical and scientific principles underlying the design and analysis of clinical trials, researchers have few references available to help them resolve the problems commonly encountered in real-world clinical trials, such as incomplete data, multiple inferences, and issues arising in safety and efficacy monitoring. Focusing on the International Conference on Harmonization (ICH) guidelines for the pharmaceutical industry, Analysis of Clinical Trials Using SAS®: A Practical Guide bridges that gap by providing examples from actual trials and case studies. It also offers solutions that can be implemented quickly and efficiently using software from SAS, the leader in business intelligence.

Reviewer Peter Westfall of Texas Tech University commends the methodologies illustrated in the book. "Because clinical trials are so highly regulated, some of the most rigorous and highly respected statistical tools are used in this arena," he said. "The methodologies covered in this book have applicability to the design and analysis of experiments well beyond clinical trials; researchers in all fields who carry out comparative studies would do well to have it on their bookshelves."

Life sciences industry statisticians, statistical programmers, research scientists and graduate assistants should all benefit greatly from the decades of clinical research experience compiled in this volume, co-authored by industry leaders Alex Dmitrienko, Geert Molenberghs, Christy Chuang-Stein and Walter Offen, and published by SAS Press.

About SAS Press
SAS Press is an imprint of SAS Publishing. Written by SAS users, books published through SAS Press cover a variety of topics, including SAS applications and examples, programming tips and techniques, and statistical analysis. The ideas and applications discussed by these authors represent some of the best ideas in the SAS user community.

About SAS
SAS is the market leader in providing a new generation of business intelligence software and services that create true enterprise intelligence. SAS solutions are used at more than 40,000 sites - including 96 of the top 100 companies on the FORTUNE Global 500^® - to develop more profitable relationships with customers and suppliers; to enable better, more accurate and informed decisions; and to drive organisations forward. SAS is the only vendor that completely integrates leading data warehousing, analytics and traditional BI applications to create intelligence from massive amounts of data. For nearly three decades, SAS has been giving customers around the world The Power to Know^®.

For further information, please contact Tara McGivern on:
Tel:01-6136406 or e-mail tara.mcgivern@irl.sas.com
For more information on SAS, please visit www.sas.com/ireland

SAS and all other SAS Institute Inc. product or service names are registered trademarks or trademarks of SAS Institute Inc. in the USA and other countries. ® indicates USA registration. Copyright © 2005 SAS Institute Inc. Cary, NC, USA. Other brand and product names are trademarks of their respective companies.