Category: SAS

Everything You Need to Know about Your SAS Session and No More…

You will get rich information for your SAS session(definitely more than you need) by submitting: %put _all_; *all system macro variables; proc setinit; *all licensed software; run; proc options; *options; run; proc javainfo;  *Java infor; run; proc registry list; *registry; run;

Confidence Intervals for Binomial Proportion: A SAS 9.4/STAT 12.3 Update

After getting the access to SAS 9.4 alone with SAS/STAT 12.3, I first took a look at my favorite SAS statistical procedure, PROF FREQ.  Last year I had a note on confidence intervals for binomial proportion based on SAS 9.2/SAS9.3. Now it’s time to throw out some updates. 1. A new confidence limits method added, […]

SAS Tech Talk: What’s new in the SAS programming language?

In SAS 9.4, the SAS programming language continues add new features by the truckload. I’ve already discussed PROC DELETE (which is actually an old feature, but like an 80s hit song it’s now back with a better version). In this SAS Tech Talk video from SAS Global Forum 2013, I […]

SAS Customer Service: Our pledge to help

Back in the early days of college, I had a friend who was pledging a fraternity. He had always talked about joining a frat, but never really knew what it entailed to become a part of the “brotherhood.” Once he decided to go Greek, he started rushin…

SAS Stratified Random Sample

There are many ways to take a stratified random sample (SRS), but we find the it doesn’t always come out as expected. That was until we started using some examples we found in a paper by Diana Suhr. This is a great example of sampling with various numbers of strata. Example #1 PROC FREQ DATA […]

More SQL taste in SAS 9.4

Compared with SAS 9.3, the latest SAS 9.4 introduced a few new procedures for the BASE and STAT components: 7 new procedures for BASE 9.4 and 4 for STAT 12.3.

New in BASENew in STAT

DELETEADAPTIVEREG
DS2QUANTLIFE
JSONQUANTSELECT
PRESE…

Alternative Method for Accessing SAS Framework Data Server Content

Back in 2011, I wrote about the all new SAS Framework Data Server in 9.3 and how it needs to be running for certain web applications to function properly. But it is actually used as the data storage device for multiple SAS components including webdav c…