Course Details
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Additional Benefits
Resume Preparation
Interview Preparation
Mock Interview
Real Time Training
100% Hands-on live training
Testing
Tailor made tests and quizzes to meet the current industry requirements
SAS Base
What is SAS
- Basic overview about SAS software
- Basics of programming
- SAS syntax
- Basic SAS concepts
- SAS statements
- SAS syntax rules
SAS dataset
- SAS libraries accessing
- Datasets reading
- SAS data as input
- Observations & variables
- Data portions
- Working with Excel worksheets
- Importing Excel file
Descriptors
Raw data files
- Reading of raw data
Raw data compilation - Procedures and techniques for validating and cleaning data
Manipulating data
- Creating of Variables
- Sub setting
- Combining Datasets
- Merging the SAS dataset
Enhancing Report (ODS systems)
- Details of Global statements
- Working with Format & Label Statements
- User Defined formats
- Sending output to external files
Summary Reports with FREQ and MEANS Procedure
Controlling Input and Output: Multiple SAS Datasets and Selecting Variables & Observations
Summarizing Data
Reading Raw Data Files
Transpose procedure
Data Transformations
SAS Arrays
SAS & Clinical Module
What is SAS
- Basic overview about SAS software
- Basics of programming
- SAS syntax
- Basic SAS concepts
- SAS statements
- SAS syntax rules
SAS dataset
- SAS libraries accessing
- Datasets reading
- SAS data as input
- Observations & variables
- Data portions
- Working with Excel worksheets
- Importing Excel file
Descriptors
Raw data files
- Reading of raw data
Raw data compilation - Procedures and techniques for validating and cleaning data
Manipulating data
- Creating of Variables
- Sub setting
- Combining Datasets
- Merging the SAS dataset
Enhancing Report (ODS systems)
- Details of Global statements
- Working with Format & Label Statements
- User Defined formats
- Sending output to external files
Summary Reports with FREQ and MEANS Procedure
Controlling Input and Output: Multiple SAS Datasets and Selecting Variables & Observations
Summarizing Data
Reading Raw Data Files
Transpose procedure
Data Transformations
SAS Arrays
Excel:
- Introduction and Basics
- Excel Basic formulas: Add, subtract, multiply, divide, average, % etc.
- Using Menus
- Formatting a Worksheet: Creating Headers, Footers, and Page Numbers, Print Titles, Gridlines, margins , orientations
- Excel Data Validation — Filters & Grouping in Excel
- Excel Formulas & Functions — Learn with Basic Examples
- Logical Functions in Excel — IF, AND, OR, Nested IF & NOT
- How to Create Charts in Excel — Types & Examples
- Data Analysis & Pivot Tables
Statistics:
- Annova: Single Factor, Two Factor with and without Replication
- Descriptive Statistics
- F-Test Two-sample for variances
- Correlation
- Covarience
- Exponential Smoothing
- Fourier analysis
- Histogram
- Random Number generation
- Rank and Percentile
- Regression
- Sampling
- T-test
- Z-test: two-sample for means
SAS – Clinical
- What is Clinical Research
- Introduction and procedure
- ICH Guidelines – introduction
- GCP guidelines
- Good programming Practices
- SAS in Clinical Research
- Demo – Clinical trial study
Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium
- Introduction to CDISC
- Guidelines for CDISC
- Terminology
CDISC – SDTM
CDISC – ADaM
CDISC – SEND
Clinical study Protocol - Demo for SAP & CRF
- Study Populations
- Sample size Calculation
- Randomization
- SAS Programming
- Table , Listings and Figures
CDISC mapping - Dataset – as per guidelines
- Validation
- Annotation
Theory-Clinical Research
Module 1: Introduction to Clinical Research
Module 2: Conceptualizing the Clinical Trial Study/Protocol
Module 3: Protocol Review, Implementation & Monitoring
Module 4: Data Quality & Results Reporting
Module 5: Topics of Special Interest
Basics to Clinical Research
- Pre-clinical details
- What is Contract Research Organizations-CRO
- Who is called sponsor and introduction
- Introduction to clinical trials: Types, Designs and Phases
- ICH GCP guidelines (ICH E6, E3 and E9)
- Details of INDA, NDA and ANDA
- Study protocol – mandatory requirements
- CRF – contents
- ICF – format and requirements
- Subject – safety and AE reporting
- Study monitoring
- Responsibilities of clinical research associate
- Responsibilities of principal investigator
- Study safety aspects
- SOPs required for clinical study
- Source data
- Clinical site monitoring
- Review boards (IRB)/IEC
- Mandatory documentation needs
- MeDRA Coding
- What are AEs and categorizing the AEs
- AE closing
- Investigator’s Brochure
- Role of FDA and EMA in clinical research
Theory-Clinical Data Management
- Introduction to CDM
- CDM process
- CDM life cycle
- Study – start up, conduct and closing
- CDM- live examples
- CRFs – how to prepare and types
- Guidelines – GCP
- 21 CFR – guidelines introduction
- Data recording and storing
- Data accessing
- Data capturing
- Setting specifications for data check
- Pre closure Checks
- Database – creation, edit -checks and freezing
- CRF – annotation
- Data entry
- Proc compare by SAS
- Data management – discrepancies, queries and resolutions
- DCFs
- Coding
- Audit Trail
- EDC – tool for data base
- Excel based database
Regulatory Affairs
- ICH Guidelines
- Regulatory Guidelines: USFDA/EMEA/ CDSCO
- Regulatory Submission
- Drug Master Files