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I hope that Marc doesn't mind, but I felt that part of his recent post was important enough to deserve it's own subject line rather then being lost in a 60-msg-long thread... On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 10:08 AM, Marc Schwartz <marc_schwartz at comcast.net> wrote: ... I strongly believe that the comments regarding R and the FDA are overly negative and pessimistic. The hurdles to

Dear All, I am looking an R version of the "Computer program for sample size and power calculations in the design of multi-arm and factorial clinical trials with survival endpoints". Best regards, Giovanni Parrinello P.S.: in the meantime I am preparing a summary for my preceeding question about time-varying covariates in the Cox model and I thank Frank Harrell, Chuck Cleland,

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Alistair-- I wrote functions to calculate Clinical Significance in Splus for the following article: McGlinchey, J. B., Atkins, D. C., & Jacobson, N. S. (2002). Clinical significance methods: Which one to use and how useful are they? Behavior Therapy, 33, 529-550. I will send the functions to you back-channel. cheers, Dave -- Dave Atkins, PhD Assistant Professor in Clinical Psychology

I think SAS Macros has capability to call R, and execute it without it being in the picture anywhere. So you can use SAS Macros in a file called R.sas In this you can create a macro called %Describe that can call R , load Hmisc ,run the describe function Note you will need repeated use of %put in this %describe for the mapping to take place Use %INCLUDE to include that file in all SAS

Hi, I have a series of id's with multiple visits and questionnaire scores. This is a clinical trial that will be analyzed using the last observation carried forward method. In other words, in order to comply with intent to treat analysis when many subjects withdraw, data points for the last visit must be generated and filled in with the last observation. The ultimate goal is to tabulate the

Dear all, There have been a variety of discussions on the R list regarding the use of R in clinical trials. The following post from the STATA list provides an interesting opinion regarding why SAS remains so popular in this arena: http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2008-01/msg00098.html Regards, -Cody Hamilton

New versions of source packages for Hmisc and Design are available from CRAN for R 1.9 on Linux/Unix. Knowing Uwe Ligges, a Windows binary is not far behind. Changelogs are at http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/twiki/bin/view/Main/ChangelogHmisc and http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/twiki/bin/view/Main/ChangelogDesign . These versions pass R CMD check for the latest R-devel so I expect they