[R] Use of R in clinical trials

[Frank E Harrell Jr]

Erik Iverson wrote:
> Frank E Harrell Jr wrote:
>> Cody,
>>
>> How amazing that SAS is still used to produce reports that reviewers 
>> hate and that requires tedious low-level programming.  R + LaTeX has 
>> it all over that approach IMHO.  We have used that combination very 
>> successfully for several data and safety monitoring reporting tasks 
>> for clinical trials for the pharmaceutical industry.
>>
>> Frank
> 
> I used to work for a research group that also used R + LaTeX to produce 
> DSMB reports for clinical trials.  If the DSMB members had only been 
> exposed to SAS reports before, you could not get them to stop praising 
> the quality of the R + LaTeX reports, even years into a trial.
> 
> Erik

Thanks for your note Erik.  That's been my experience too.

For those that haven't seen it already, you may be interested in 
http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/Rreport and its "Statistical Tables and 
Plots" link.

Frank

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Frank E Harrell Jr   Professor and Chairman        School of Medicine
                      Department of Biostatistics   Vanderbilt University