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Robert L. Obenchain

About Robert L. Obenchain

author pix A SAS user since 1986, Robert Obenchain is Principal Consultant at Risk Benefit Statistics LLC in Carmel, Indiana; Research Fellow at the National Institute of Statistical Sciences in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina; and Adjunct Professor in Biostatistics at Indiana University Medical School in Indianapolis. Previously, Dr. Obenchain worked for thirty-seven years as a professional statistician in the telecommunications (Bell Labs) and pharmaceutical industries (Eli Lilly and Glaxo) doing data analyzes, statistical computing, and methods development. He received his Ph.D. in mathematical statistics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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book cover Analysis of Observational Health Care Data Using SAS
By Douglas Faries, Robert L. Obenchain, Josep Maria Haro, and Andrew C. Leon
Anticipated publication date: Fall 2009

This book guides researchers in performing and presenting high-quality analyses of all kinds of non-randomized studies, including analyses of observational studies, claims database analyses, assessment of registry data, survey data, pharmaco-economic data, and many more applications. The text is sufficiently detailed to provide not only general guidance, but to help the researcher through all of the standard issues that arise in such analyses. Just enough theory is included to allow the reader to understand the pros and cons of alternative approaches and when to use each method. The numerous contributors to this book illustrate, via real-world numerical examples and SAS code, appropriate implementations of alternative methods. The end result is that researchers will learn how to present high-quality and transparent analyses that will lead to fair and objective decisions from observational data.

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