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Cytel is a multinational statistical software developer and contract research organization, headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. Cytel provides clinical trial design and implementation services and specialized statistical products primarily for the biotech and pharmaceutical development markets.〔(DIA | CSO Details )〕〔http://www.phusewiki.org/docs/Indian%20SDE%20Presentations/SAS%20programming%20roles%20and%20their%20evolution%20in%20the%20competitive%20environment.pdf〕 Cytel specializes in adaptive trials – a new type of randomized clinical trial that allows modifications of ongoing trials while aiming to preserve the statistical validity and integrity of the study.〔(Cytel - Pharmacompare - Your Source for Preclinical, Clinical and Pharmaceutical Products and Services )〕 Based on either frequentist or Bayesian statistics, adaptive trial designs are now widely accepted by government regulatory agencies including the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA), European Medicines Agency (EMA), and Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) in early and later stage clinical studies.〔(BioAlps :: Cytel )〕 As of January 2014, the company claims all 25 top biopharma companies as users of its software to design, simulate and analyze operationally support trials.〔 ==Background== Company founders Cyrus Mehta, Ph.D. and Nitin Patel, Ph.D. are amongst the pioneering statisticians credited for developing the underlying statistical methods behind so-called “flexible” designs: group sequential and adaptive trials.〔(CRO News | CenterWatch News Online )〕 Cytel statisticians have collectively published over 140 papers in peer-reviewed statistical and medical journals, including ''The Journal of the American Statistical Association'', ''The Journal of Biopharmaceutical Statistics'', ''Biometrics'', ''Biometrika'', ''Circulation'', ''Drug Information Journal'', and ''Statistics in Medicine''.〔(Irving Dark Named Vice President of Cytel Clinical Research Services - re> CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Jan. 16 /PRNewswire/ )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cytel」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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