Guided Notes
ADaM & Analysis Traceability
ADaM principles, ADSL and BDS structures, common variables and flags, how analysis needs drive data cleaning, and the CDM–biostatistics partnership.
What ADaM is
Slide 1 / 5ADaM (Analysis Data Model) defines analysis-ready datasets derived from SDTM: • one-proc-away: statisticians can produce results with minimal further manipulation, • traceable to SDTM, • accompanied by metadata explaining derivations. Data managers don't usually program ADaM but must understand what analysis needs, so they clean the right data.