There is an interesting question —There are 5 different types of toys at a KFC restaurant. If you go there, you will get one toy randomly. How many times do you need to go to KFC in order to get all 5 toys?The question is about probabilistic analysis…
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Susan’s Life Lesson No. 2
You have a right to ask for what you want. You may not get it, but you have a right to ask. My son took a summer job with the understanding that he would work 20 hours/week. This would allow him to enroll in summer school at the same time. At first everything went fine. […]
Community Contributors to SAS/STAT
I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail. – Abraham Maslow, The Psychology of Science, 1966 Yes it’s true: since I have a pretty rich collection of SAS list processing macros, I’d like my list container to hold everything itemized. […]
Importing CSV files into SAS datasets
Sometimes, your first impulse may not be correct, like trading in your practical sedan for a hot 2-seater. Other times, your first impulse is perfect, as in the examples below. Suppose the automobile data you wish to analyze resides in a CSV file. …
Sunrise In the Paris of the Prairies
Here I sit in my hotel room in Regina at 4:00am. I’ve showered and packed, ready to hit the road for my early flight back to Toronto. Yet I must admit, I’m more than a little wistful to leave this great city. The people and the weather have both be…
Copy a file using a SAS program: another method
A couple of years ago I shared a method for copying any file within a SAS program. It was a simple approach, copying the file byte-by-byte from one fileref (SAS file reference) to another. My colleague Bruno Müller, a SAS trainer in Switzerland, has since provided a much more robust […]
SAS ODS Tagsets Guru Eric Gebhart on Github
Check it out:
https://github.com/EricGebhart
Also, his homepage:
http://ericgebhart.com/
Shameless Ad: I will have a talk on Github for SAS programmers in the forthcoming SESUG (Oct 20-23, 2013) at St.Pete Beach, FL. Welcome to drop by if you are on …
Big data and visual analytics top Analytics 2013 Orlando
It’s that time of year again. The weather is cooling down and the buzz about the Analytics Conference is heating up. This year’s conference, taking place Oct. 21-22 in Orlando, will bring together more than 1,000 analytics professionals to learn th…