Automating the Practice of Statistics

Document Technology

XML and SAS

XML Erases the Barriers between Data and Documents in Clinical Research

October 21, 2002 - Michael Palmer

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It's Easy If You Know How: Importing, Processing, and Exporting CDISC XML with SAS

May 5, 2002 - Michael Palmer

This tutorial will cover the basics of data-centric XML, the structural and semantic requirements of CDISC's Operational Data Model (ODM) standard, and techniques for importing, processing, and exporting clinical data in SAS using the ODM.

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Softerware: Replace SAS Programs with XML Documents to Help People and Computers Be Happier with Each Other

May 20, 2001 - Michael Palmer and Cecilia Hale

In a novel use of electronic documents to replace labor-intensive programming, a SAS-based integration has been implemented that uses XML to automate the creation, revision, and reuse of the publication-quality statistical tables prominent in regulatory submissions.

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A Method to Import, Process, and Export Arbitrary XML Files with SAS

May 20, 2001 - Michael Palmer and Cecilia Hale

This paper presents a method to import, process, and export arbitrary, data-centric XML files. The method also provides a compression technique for passing XML files between applications.

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A Case Study in the Use of XML to Integrate SAS with Third-Party Applications

April 1, 2001 - Michael Palmer and Cecilia Hale

SAS is optimal for statistics but clumsy for publishing report-quality tables. XML offers a new way to integrate SAS with publishing software. To implement, SAS was taught a standard XML vocabulary for tables. This means adding three capabilities to SAS: importing the vocabulary, exporting the vocabulary, and manipulating the XML vocabulary as XML.

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Reducing Statisticians' Programming Load: Automated Statistical Analysis with SAS and XML.

May 1, 2000 - Michael Palmer and Cecilia Hale

Statisticians often spend more time programming and supervising the programming for tables than they spend on the statistical analyses reported in the tables. Features new in versions 7 and 8 of SAS coupled with XML make it possible to reduce this programming load by automating analysis steps.

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