She had bought it in a moment of desperate optimism during her PhD, intimidated by the legends of the "SAS Institute"—the wizards of Cary, North Carolina. But the command line frightened her. She was a biologist, not a programmer.

/* Calculating summary statistics for efficacy endpoints */ proc summary data=integrated_data nway; class treatment; var efficacy_endpoint; output out=efficacy_summary mean= std= min= max= / autoname; run;

: Ensure all automated data formatting macros are thoroughly tested and locked.