Checking the detailed release number(s) for SAS® software in a depot is one of those things I do rarely enough that I have to look it up each time I need to do it. I know it’s in the depot somewhere, but I keep forgetting exactly where. This…
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New U.S. sample data available in SAS 9.4
In previous versions of SAS, if you wanted to experiment with creating U.S. maps in Proc GMAP, there wasn’t any good sample data available. Unless you had your own data available, you probably ended up using the maps.us x/y points as your DATA= … w…
Basic Differences Between Proc MEANS and Proc SUMMARY
Though Proc Means and Proc Summary are 2 different procedures essentially used to compute descriptive statistics of numeric variables, but there are differences between these two. (
1) By default, Proc MEANS produces printed out…
SAS BI Dashboard: Don’t Forget the Timestamp
Author: Tricia Aanderud
If you are getting ready to rollout a new SAS BI dashboard, make sure you have a timestamp or Data Last Refreshed where the users can easily see it. If it’s a real time dashboard (or near real time) then the user wants to know the last time the data …
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Make a commitment and swim, bike, run with it
Over the past six months, my free time was devoted to training. This impacted my blog posting frequency but the training helped me successfully complete the inaugural Raleigh Ironman 70.3 in June. When thinking back through how this happened, I noticed…
A SAS sandwich to satisfy every appetite
How do you like your sandwich? On rye, whole wheat or white bread? What fillings and dressings do you like? You probably think I’ve gone completely crazy and I don’t blame you. What does food have to do with SAS, you say? Loads — as you’ll find …
Cluster analysis on a pivot table
The increasing supremacy of JavaScript on both server side and client side seems a good news for those statistical workers who deal with data and model, and therefore always live in the darkness. They could eventually find a relatively easier way to…
I don’t always do regression, but when I do, I do it in SAS 9.4
There are several exciting add-ins from SAS Analytics products running on v9.4, especially the SAS/STAT high performance procedures, where “high performance” refers to either in single-machine multi-threading mode or full distributed mode.
HPG…