Table of Contents
- Title and Copyright Information
- Preface
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Start here
- Log in to Oracle Empirica Signal
- Prerequisites and usage notes
- View release notes and other documents
- About the Oracle Empirica Signal application
- Signal detection methods
- Common tasks and tools
- Set your user preferences
- Change your password
- Print a table
- Use Help
- Send feedback
- Exit Oracle Empirica Signal
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FAQs
- What is a project?
- Data mining FAQs
- About tables
- Specify a SQL WHERE clause
- How do I select hierarchy terms?
- How do I select values from a list?
- Specify hierarchy versions for timestamped data
- Use hierarchy tables
- What is an alias?
- How can a saved list keep me from having to select values individually?
- Typing values in text boxes
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Review signal information
- Overview of Signal Review
- Signal Review configurations: interactive vs. scripted
- Configured alerts: tracked vs. informational
- Start with the Signal Review pages
- Keyboard shortcuts for the Products and Product-Event Combinations tables
- View aggregate information for a selected group or product
- Step 1: Choose a published configuration
- Step 2: Select a product or group of products to investigate
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Step 3: Investigate product-event combinations for a product
- Panels of the Product-Event Combinations page
- Investigate product-event combinations for a product
- View product-event combinations for a card or tab
- Perform a periodic review
- Use Row Selection mode
- Save a modified product-event table as a new view
- Add a tab to the Product-Event Combinations panel
- Product-event combination statistics
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Focus on a product-event combination
- Add a comment
- Add a comment to multiple combinations
- Assign a reviewer to a product-event combination
- View the signal history
- View the details of a Signal Review alert
- View signals for similar product-event combinations
- View product-event interactions
- Suppress a product-event combination
- Limit the product-event combinations to a specific alert type
- View age group breakdown in a bar graph
- View gender breakdown for a product-event combination
- Step 4: Submit the review
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Use Oracle Empirica Topics
- Overview of topic management
- About topics, actions, and the calendar
- Display the Topic Management page
- Sections of the Topic Management page
- Sections of the Topics tab
- Sections of the Actions tab
- Sections of the Calendar tab
- Download the Topics or Actions table
- Keyboard shortcuts for the Topics and Actions tables
- Select a topic workflow configuration
- Choose which items to view on the Topics, Actions, and Calendar tabs
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Work with topics
- View topics
- Filter the Topics table
- View a specific topic
- Quickly access topic information
- Open a topic from the Recent Topics list
- View Topic and Edit Topic pages
- Edit the general information about a topic
- Add or view comments for a topic or action
- Add a topic
- Associate a topic with a product-event combination
- Select a topic template
- Make a topic visible to a work team
- Link topics
- Remove a link
- Reopen a topic
- Delete a topic
- View the history of a topic
- Viewing topic reports
- Create a topic PDF or ZIP file
- Work with actions
- Work with the calendar
- Work with attachments
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Initiate and monitor data mining runs
- What is a data mining run?
- View data mining runs
- Data Mining Runs page
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Create a Data Mining Run
- Step 1: Select the run type and data configuration
- Step 2: (For timestamped data only) Select the as-of date
- Step 3: Select the variables
- Step 4 for MGPS runs: Specify data mining parameters
- Step 4 for logistic regression runs: Select the events and specify drugs
- Step 5: Define data mining run options
- Step 6: Name the data mining run
- Step 7: Submit the data mining run
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Reference
- About MGPS runs
- MGPS computations
- MGPS independence model
- Information Component computations
- RGPS computations
- Use the PRR calculator
- PRR computations
- Select a case series for PRR computation
- ROR computations
- About logistic regression runs
- Logistic regression computations
- Guidelines for specifying drugs for logistic regression
- Drug and event hierarchies
- Timestamped data
- Specify an As Of date
- Stratification variables
- Dimensions and patterns
- View interactions
- Manage custom terms
- Define subsets for an MGPS run
- View source data
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Manage data mining runs
- Rename a data mining run
- View details of a data mining run
- Arrange the columns on the Data Mining Runs page
- View jobs for a data mining run
- View job details for a data mining run
- Define a database restriction
- Refine a query to create a database restriction or custom term
- Cancel or delete a data mining run
- Re-run a data mining run
- Data configuration and object compatibility
- Publish a data mining run
- Logistic regression log files
- 5 Retrieve and review data mining results
- 6 Query the safety database
- 7 Create and manage case series
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Manage report definitions and output
- About reports
- Report structure
- View existing report definitions
- Built-in reports
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Create report definitions
- Create a report definition
- Step 1: Select a case series for a report
- Step 2: Name a report definition
- Step 3: Add rows and columns to a report definition
- Step 4: Specify a data source in a report
- Step 5: Specify content details
- Step 6: Preview a report
- Step 7: Run a report and work with report data
- Step 8: Save a report output
- Work with report definitions
- Specify report attributes/descriptors
- Specify variable breakdowns
- Report background processing
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Create and run interactive reports
- About interactive reports
- Interactive Reports page
- Create or edit an interactive report definition
- Run an interactive report
- Create a report definition file
- Run a report using a report definition file
- Query-based interactive reports
- Summary of all cases interactive reports
- Manage interactive reports
- Work with report outputs
- Work with report graphs
- 9 Set up and use drug profiles
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Settings and administration
- Specify settings
- View server version, versioning details, component libraries, and other documents
- View release notes and download other documents
- Manage users, login groups, and work teams
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System configurations
- Select a data configuration
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Manage configurations
- About data configurations
- View existing data configurations
- Data configuration example
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Add a data configuration
- Add a data configuration
- Connect to an Oracle account
- Specify a drilldown map table
- Select an Oracle table or column
- Source description table
- Narrative text
- Unique values table
- Specify hierarchy versions for timestamped data
- Drug and event hierarchies
- Import a data configuration
- Validate a data configuration
- Publish a data configuration
- Modify a data configuration
- Manage subscription data releases
- Manage aliases
- Manage drug profile configurations
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Manage signal configurations
- Manage signal configuration reference data
- Manage Signal Configurations page
- Edit a signal configuration
- Publish a signal configuration
- Configure alerts
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Set up for interactive signal management and review
- Delete a product
- Modify the display order of product fields
- Configure column labels and column descriptions for the product-event combinations tables
- Edit a product field
- Add a product field value
- Delete a product field value
- Rename a product field value
- Modify the display order of a product field's defined values
- Case scoring algorithm
- Increased frequency algorithm
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Manage interactive signal configuration refreshes
- About refreshing interactive signal configurations
- Manage Refreshes page
- Refresh an interactive signal configuration from the Refresh Signal Management page
- Refresh an interactive signal configuration using a definition file
- View details for a signal management refresh
- View pending or implemented changes to an interactive signal configuration
- Cancel or delete a refresh for an interactive signal configuration
- View jobs for an interactive signal configuration refresh
- View job details for an interactive signal configuration refresh
- Validate an interactive signal configuration
- Manage signal comment types
- Assign reviewers
- Arrange or download tables
- Manage events and custom terms
- Manage signal views
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Manage topic workflow configurations
- Topic workflow configuration design
- Overview of setting up a topic workflow configuration
- Preconfigured topic workflow configurations
- Manage Topic Workflow Configurations page
- Add a topic workflow configuration
- Edit Topic Workflow Configuration page
- Work with topic workflow configurations
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Manage fields
- About fields
- Manage Fields page
- View a field
- About managing the display order for fields and field values
- Add a field
- Add a multi-selection list field
- Add a drop-down list field
- Add linked fields
- Constrain field values by work team
- Identify a field as a filter field
- Edit a field
- Delete a field
- Modify the display order for a field
- Manage field values
- Manage topic states
- Manage action states
- Manage field access
- Manage topic templates
- Manage action types
- Manage email notification rules
- Transform data
- Administer the system
- Monitor the system
- Set up saved lists
- Change log