What It Takes to be a Biostatistician Jessica L. McKinney Department of Biostatistics January 21, 2003

Life Outside of Class  BCL – Bed Angle Project  Academic Technology  Future Funding – Weekly meetings with the Genetic Workgroup  Dissertation Research  Darts

Academic Technology  Full Support – Tuition and stipend  12 hour work week  Private office  Excellent experience  Position is available for next year

My Duties and Responsibilities  Offer support for statistical software packages such as SAS, S-Plus, SPSS, Sudaan, and NQuery.  Update AT web pages  Familiarize myself with numerous software packages

Enterprise Guide is an easy-to-use Windows client application that provides A point-and-click Windows application  access to much of the functionality of SAS  an intuitive, visual, customizable interface  transparent access to data  ready-to-use tasks for analysis and reporting  easy exporting of data and results to other applications  scripting and automation  a code editing facility.

Enterprise Guide Uses SAS Behind the Scenes  As you access data and build tasks, Enterprise Guide generates SAS code behind the scenes. When you finish a task, this code is sent to SAS for processing and the results are returned to Enterprise Guide. You can use all the features of Enterprise Guide without knowing how to program in SAS. If you are interested in programming, you can view the code that Enterprise Guide generates.  Enterprise Guide can access SAS installed locally or on a server. If both are installed on your local PC, Enterprise Guide accesses the local copy of SAS.