Career in Analytics with Clinical SAS ~ Ikya Global EDU

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Statistical Analysis Software (SAS) is a software suite developed for data management and analytics. SAS developed by the SAS Institute is used to mine and manage data from a wide range of sources and perform statistical analysis. The SAS software suite has many components like SAS/STAT for statistical analysis, SAS/OR for operations research, SAS/QC for quality control. Clinical SAS is also a component of this SAS suite that is applied in the pharmaceutical industry

Recently, India is moving towards clinical research very rapidly. In clinical research, analysis of clinical trials and submission of reports using ClinicalSAS software is a key activity. As India has skilled resources that are available at economical costs, clinical SAS jobs are being outsourced to our people of late. A career in clinical SAS is relatively new but has great prospects in the future. It is a viable career option for people with an interest in analytics. Though clinical research knowledge is not necessary for the clinical SAS jobs, acquaintance with the aspects of clinical trials will be an added advantage. One can enter this field as a clinical SAS programmer with the key responsibility of creating programs that are required for the clinical analysis and reporting of the clinical studies.

Job Responsibilities:

A typical clinical SAS programmer’s job will comprise –

• Managing a big number of datasets & data points
• Understanding the interdependencies of data points
• Providing accurate and timely analysis’ of the data 

Ikya Global provides SAS training in Hyderabad that will be your stepping stone in this field. The course has been designed such that you accomplish the data processing tasks by writing appropriate SAS programs.

The program:

• Getting Started – Assessing the SAS system, navigating among the SAS programming windows, understanding the difference between batch mode and interactive mode, examining your program's output, understanding data sets, 
• SAS Data Sets – Explain the concept of an SAS data library, differentiate between a permanent library and a temporary library, investigate an SAS data library using the CONTENTS procedure
• List Reports - Generate simple list reports using the PRINT procedure, display selected columns and rows in a list report, display a list report with column totals
• Output - Customizing report appearance, formatting data values, creating HTML reports
• Creation of SAS datasets - Using column input and formatted input, examining data errors, assigning variable attributes
• Combining SAS Data Sets - Using the SET statement to concatenate two or more SAS data sets, using the RENAME= data set option to change the names of variables, using the SET and BY statements to interleave two or more SAS Data Sets.
• Summary Reports - Creating one-way and two-way frequency tables using the FREQ procedure, generate simple descriptive statistics using the MEANS procedure, using the REPORT procedure to create a listing report, using the RBREAK statement to produce a grand total

Ikya Global is one of the best SAS training institutes in Hyderabad that has faculty from the industry and provides 100% placement assistance to its students.

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