Lachlan McGregor said
Clearly, SAS is still used by major pharmaceutical companies. I don't
know the reason for this, but curious to find out.
As I understand, presumably in a bid to ensure quality of statistical
analysis in drug trials, the US FDA specified that all statistical
analyses of data from trials were to be done in SAS. I don't know if
that still applies, but it set an industry standard. I've been told
that, if you did analyse data using another package, you had to redo it
in SAS to satisfy the regulators.
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