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Agenda

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12:30 - 1:00	Registration*
1:00 - 1:10	President's opening remarks
1:10 - 2:00	Data Mining of Market Knowledge Olivia Rud, DirectCom John Cohen, AstraZeneca
2:00 - 2:15	Breakout, Refreshments, Posters *
2:15 - 2:45	Symbol Table Generator Jim Johnson, Covance, Inc.
2:45 - 3:15	Annotated Case Report Form Automation System Anthony M Cavaliere, SmithKline Beecham Pharmaceuticals Shi-Tao Yeh, EDP Contract Services
3:15 - 3:30	Breakout, Refreshments, Posters *
3:30 - 3:40	Open Forum, Business Issues
3:40 - 4:30	Running SAS Applications on the Web Dana Rafiee, Destiny Corp.
4:30 - 4:35	MBCR (Mercifully Brief Closing Remarks)

	* Light refreshments will be served during breaks

You are invited to join the speakers and the PhilaSUG Executive Committee for dinner at a nearby restaurant at the conclusion of the meeting. The location will be announced at the meeting.

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Abstracts

Papers

Data Mining of Market Knowledge
in the Pharmaceutical Industry
Olivia Rud, DirectCom
John Cohen, AstraZeneca

ABSTRACT:
The pharmaceutical industry is well-known for using SAS to perform quantitative analysis for clinical research. Lately, however, competitive pressures have created opportunities in the marketing departments to use SAS for data mining. Applications such as sales force planning and direct marketing to doctors and consumers are employing many new SAS tools and techiniques.

BIOGRAPHY:
Olivia Rud is Vice-president of Analytic Services for DirectCom, a full-service database marketing company. She has over twenty years' experience in the financial services industry with a ten-year emphasis in data mining, modeling, and segmentation in the credit card, insurance and catalog industries. She has a B.A. in Mathematics and an M.S. in Decision and Information Systems with an emphasis in Statistics. She is currently working with the SAS Institute to form a Data Mining SAS Users Group. She has been a SAS user for ten years.

John Cohen is a tactical business analyst with the Sales and Marketing Departments at AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals. A SAS user since 1980 in a variety of business and academic settings, he is active in several SAS user groups and was co-chair of the Hands-On Workshops Section at NESUG '99 in Washington, D.C.

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Annotated Case Report Form Automation System
Anthony M Cavaliere, SmithKline Beecham Pharmaceuticals
Shi-Tao Yeh, EDP Contract Services
ABSTRACT:
This paper presents an illustration of a SAS-based annotated Case Report Form (CRF) automation system. SAS macros are used to construct CRF pages from individual data collection modules annotated with database information and to generate an HTML-based viewer system for viewing these assembled, annotated pages. This automation system can be used to create a complete set of electronic CRF pages for an entire clinical study, and for the users to review and manage thgese CRF pages online. The discussion includes topics of:

Preparing a library of annotated forms and components,
Providing a SAS macro to construct a CRF page,
Providing a SAS macro to generate a viewer system,
Illustrating a pilot CRF automation system.
The SAS products used in this paper are: SASBASE, without any limitation of operating systems.

BIOGRAPHY:
Anthony M. Cavaliere is an employee of SmithKline Beecham where he has been the director of in the Biometrics Department and is currently the director of Clinical Data Management. Department US.Department US
Shi-Tao Yeah is a senior consultant at EDP Contract Services with assignments to SmithKline Beecham Pharmaceuticals. Shi-Tao's areas of expertise are SAS Base, SAS/STAT, SAS/GRAPH, SAS/AF and SAS/FSP. He has a Ph.D. degree from University of Pennsylvania and has been using SAS software for twenty-two years.
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Symbol Table Generator
Jim Johnson, Covance, Inc.

ABSTRACT:
Have you ever written a lengthy program, printed it, and tried to find where in the program that a particular variable or two were used? Do you remember sitting there with your printout, highlighter, and program editor, repeatedly using the editor’s find feature, then trying to locate the reference in the printed copy so you can highlight it?

This paper will present a short program that reads a user-provided SAS® program and generates a line numbered listing of the program and a symbol table, indicating each variable and keyword in the pro-gram and every line number on which it is referenced. The symbol table excludes comment text (I know we all use ample comments in our code :-) ). A few of the programming tricks will be discussed, as well as some of the program limitations. A unique programming style will also be demonstrated.

BIOGRAPHY:
Jim Johnson is a Principle Scientific Programmer with Covance, a Pharmaceutical Contract Research Organization located in Radnor, PA. He has been programming SAS® in the pharmaceutical industry for 13 years. He has expertise in base SAS, macros, and PROC SQL. Jim also teaches at the Covance Institute, a joint educational venture between Covance, the SAS Institute, and the Philadelphia College of Textiles and Science.

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Running SAS Applications on the Web
Dana Rafiee, Destiny Corp. ABSTRACT:
Using SAS/Internet Software this paper is designed to show individuals how to create Web enabled applications that users can execute over an intranet/internet environment. An understanding of interactive web based applications, including drill down, conditional processing, and viewer style publishing will be discussed.
BIOGRAPHY:
Dana Rafiee is a recognized authority in SAS® Software on multiple operating systems and the web. He has over fifteen years of experience in applications development and design in 4th Generation Languages, Operating Systems, Communications, Consulting, and Training. His specific areas of expertise include SAS, MVS, Unix, VMS, Windows and CMS.
Mr. Rafiee has worked as a trainer and consultant for several hundred firms in the United States and Europe. He is also an active member of all of the Regional SAS User Groups and speaks regularly at these conferences offering the Hands on Workshop Seminars and is an invited speaker at SUGI.
Mr. Rafiee conducts more than 50 different training seminars and workshops in various topics in SAS software, including the latest releases and how SAS is used in Web based environments. He earned his BS degree in 1984 at the University of Hartford and his MBA degree with a concentration in MIS from the same school in 1986.

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Posters

SAS® Macros for Grouping Count and Its Application to Enhance Your Reports
Shi-Tao Yeh, EDP Contract Services

This poster provides two SAS® macros, one for one grouping variable, and the second for two grouping variables. Both macros count the subjects in the grouping variables and the number of sub-groups. For some report-writing tasks, the number of sub-groups and subjects in each sub-group may vary and cannot be predicted prior to invocation. The macros that perform the counts include an overall total number of subjects and a summation of subjects in each subgroup. They then save the counts as SAS macro variables for later use. This paper also discusses how to use these macros with provided examples to illustrate how to enhance your reports. The SAS product used in this paper is SAS BASE, with no limitation of operating systems.

Reproductive Toxicology Data Analysis Module

Ashwini Mathur, SmithKline Beecham
Prem Kumar, SmithKline Beecham
Amit Bhattacharyya, SmithKline Beecham

This poster will display a data analysis module based on SAS procedures that automates the analysis and reporting of reproductive toxicology data. Annotated reports are generated form the output of PROC GLM, PROC MIXED, and PROC MULTTEST.

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