[R] Use of R in clinical trials

[Christopher W. Ryan]

Anyone have any recollection of Prophet software, from the National (US) 
Center for Research Resources?

--Chris

Christopher W. Ryan, MD
SUNY Upstate Medical University Clinical Campus at Binghamton
425 Robinson Street, Binghamton, NY  13904
cryanatbinghamtondotedu

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divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the 
vast and endless sea."  [Antoine de St. Exupery]

Marc Schwartz wrote:
> On Feb 18, 2010, at 3:50 PM, Nordlund, Dan (DSHS/RDA) wrote:
> 
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org] On
>>> Behalf Of Peter Dalgaard
>>> Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2010 12:44 PM
>>> To: Douglas Bates
>>> Cc: r-help at r-project.org; Bert Gunter
>>> Subject: Re: [R] Use of R in clinical trials
>>>
>>>
>>>>> (Corrections/additional information welcome!)
>>>> My recollection is that the BMD programs (which, in a later version,
>>>> became BMDP) predated SAS and were specifically for BioMeDical
>>>> analysis.
>>> How could I forget those! Yes, my old (as in 1980-1985) boss at the
>>> University hospital even had the manual in the office. It wasn't a
>>> statistical system though, more a suite of single-purpose computer
>>> programs with a rigid control-card specification format.
>>>
>>> BTW, they were apparently put in the public domain by UCLA, but I wonder
>>> where they went?
>>>
>> I believe BMDP was bought by SPSS around 1996.  SPSS also purchased Systat in that same time period I believe.
>>
>> Dan
> 
> 
> Statistical Solutions has BMDP, along with NCSS and nQuery, etc:
> 
>   http://www.statsol.ie/index.php?pageID=6
> 
> I was going to reference BMDP from my memories of some folks that used it back in the 80's, but was away at a meeting and then I noted Doug's reference to it.
> 
> 
> SPSS sold Systat to a group in India (Cranes Software) , which then re-constituted Systat Software:
> 
>   http://www.systat.com/
> 
> 
> StatView was another of those early programs dating from the mid-to-late 80's that went through various incarnations, was eventually bought by SAS, which then shut it down in favor of JMP.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Marc Schwartz
> 
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