I'm hoping one of the brilliant minds here will be able to help me with this.
First some background
I'm in the Epi / Biostat field and currently in grad school. My interests currently lie in intervention trials. Recently, we covered different aspects of randomizing.
My question
Obviously, to add more credibility to clinical trials, you want to blind as many of the parties as possible. So I was thinking, I can get SAS to assign treatment randomly. However, I won't be blind to it unless I can hide the randomization process calculations from myself. What I'm wondering is if there's a way for STAT software to hide or lock the results from the randomization calculations until a specified date or until some conditions are satisfied.
First some background
I'm in the Epi / Biostat field and currently in grad school. My interests currently lie in intervention trials. Recently, we covered different aspects of randomizing.
My question
Obviously, to add more credibility to clinical trials, you want to blind as many of the parties as possible. So I was thinking, I can get SAS to assign treatment randomly. However, I won't be blind to it unless I can hide the randomization process calculations from myself. What I'm wondering is if there's a way for STAT software to hide or lock the results from the randomization calculations until a specified date or until some conditions are satisfied.