Data analysis and excel vs sas program

[pharmali99]

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Hi fellow pharmacists,

Any one is data analysis trained, and if so what course you took and what do you recommend
Is there any training programs for sas or Spss programs or others that can help in doing your statistical analysis yourself ?
Any information greatly appreciated,
Thx

 

[lord999]

Are you going industry? Then SAS is the FDA (and industry by extension) standard for non-PK and S-Plus is the standard for PK and numerical analysis, though R is getting closer to supplanting both (R is a funhouse mirror of S-Plus). You'll see Stata in the public health and econ sectors, but you still have to be conversant in SAS if dealing with PhRMA marketing divisions.

Use the UCLA ATS tutorials to self-train if absolutely necessary, but if you're in a pharmacy school, there certainly are classes for that you can take.

However, I would recommend learning something simple that has a command line interface (Stata) for undergraduate classes then learning R or SAS second if you're doing graduate work later on. This is not at all a usual pharmacist topic, and there are alternate personnel trained for that sort unless you're the informaticist or research pharmacist.

 

[pharmtechcat]

Hi fellow pharmacists,

Any one is data analysis trained, and if so what course you took and what do you recommend
Is there any training programs for sas or Spss programs or others that can help in doing your statistical analysis yourself ?
Any information greatly appreciated,
Thx

Are you still looking for insight here?

 

[Sine Cura]

Actually I have taken courses in data analysis but not in any PharmD program. TBH whatever you are going to do as a pharmacy student is going to be quite rudimentary and you probably will barely do any inferential analysis. Excel is sufficient. Most PharmDs and pharmacy students don't really understand statistical inference anyway.