This quick note serves as a supplementnote of my previous Statistical Notes (3): Confidence Intervals for Binomial Proportion Using SAS which I will extend as a SESUG 2015 paper. Basically I added a new Blaker method to my CI_Single_Proportion.sas file and found more CIs from SAS PROC FREQ. First of all, call the script: filename […]
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R Now Contains 150 Times as Many Commands as SAS
by Bob Muenchen In my ongoing quest to analyze the world of analytics, I’ve updated the Growth in Capability section of The Popularity of Data Analysis Software. To save you the trouble of foraging through that tome, I’ve pasted it below. … Continue reading →
Using LIBNAME XLSX to read and write Excel files
When you weren’t watching, SAS did it again. We smuggled Yet Another Excel Engine into a SAS release. SAS 9.2 Maintenance 2 added the XLSX engine, which allows you to read and write Microsoft Excel files as if they were data sets in a library. The big advantage of using […]
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Happy 35th anniversary, Mount St. Helens
Mount St. Helens volcano here in the US had a big eruption 35 years ago this week! Do you know exactly where it is located? Perhaps this SAS map can help… As you might have guessed, I’m a big fan of the awesome power of nature (hurricanes, tornadoes, lightning, earthquakes, and […]
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Sending Text Messages from SAS
For me, a major highlight of SAS Global Forum 2015 was seeing Matthew Slaughter’s presentation, Sending Text Messages from SAS. You may have noticed that his name is similar to mine. This is not a coincidence as he is my son. However, this paper was his idea. He researched the topic on his own, and […]
Sending Text Messages from SAS
For me, a major highlight of SAS Global Forum 2015 was seeing Matthew Slaughter’s presentation, Sending Text Messages from SAS. You may have noticed that his name is similar to mine. This is not a coincidence as he is my son. However, this paper was his idea. He researched the topic on his own, and […]
Dataset too big for PROC PRINT?
Dataset too big for PROC PRINT? One weird trick solves your problem! proc print data=bigdata (obs=10); run; The OBS= dataset option specifies the last observation to process from an input dataset. In the above example, regardless of dataset size, only the first 10 observations are printed; an easy way to […]
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A little fun with UFO sightings data
As a kid, I was always intrigued with UFO sightings and I guess I’m still a little that way … therefore how could I not jump at the opportunity to explore some UFO sightings data! I guess “UFO” doesn’t necessarily imply that something is an alien space ship – just […]
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