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Stata for the pharmaceutical/health sciences industry

Stata is used by the top pharmaceutical R&D organizations and by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Not only does the FDA accept new drug applications (NDAs) performed in Stata, but Stata is among the packages that the FDA uses to reanalyze submissions.

Stata is one of the most respected and validated statistical tools for analyzing clinical data from pre-clinical through phase IV trials. At each step of analysis, you can rely on Stata’s extensive suite of statistics, data management, and graphics to provide accurate results.

Clinical researchers are turning to Stata because

  1. Stata offers a wider range of statistical techniques.
  2. Stata is verifiably accurate.
  3. Results produced by Stata are accepted by the FDA, and in fact, the FDA uses Stata.
  4. Stata easily reads and writes data in the format required by the FDA for NDA submissions.
  5. Stata technical support is second to none.
  6. Analyses in Stata are easily documented and reproduced—making it simple to create an audit trail—whether the analysis is performed via the GUI or command line.

There are more reasons to choose Stata; see Why use Stata.