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Creating fancy ‘infographics’ with SAS
I haven’t seen an official definition of ‘infographic’ that I really like … but in my mind it’s something 1/2 way between data visualization & artwork. It borrows elements from graphs & dashboards, and combines that with an artistic poster…
Individual vs. Group Incentive for Weight Loss
A new Annals of Internal Medicine article describes a study that compares two employer-sponsored financial incentive programs for promoting weight loss among obese employees. I first read about the article at the Pacific Standard. The study design is a randomized controlled prospective trial. The two programs are as follows: Program 1. Obese employees are given […]
Jedi SAS Tricks: Finding Tattoine with DS2
NASA’s Kepler mission has discovered a world where two suns set over the horizon instead of just one. The planet, called Kepler-16b, is the most “Tatooine-like” planet yet found in our galaxy.” While catching up on my reading, this article from NASA’s …
Tell Me about those Pesky CLASS variables, Part 2: Changing the Reference Level
In the previous blog on CLASS variables, we developed the idea of creating design variables and examined GLM and reference coding. Consider our previous scenario of modeling the average amount spent on a credit card (SPEND) as a function of the variab…
Dashboards:Tips for Designing Dashboards with SAS Code
I realize not everyone is using the SAS BI system, but that does not mean that you don’t need to create a dashboard. In BASE SAS, dashboards are created using fairly simple SAS code (GKPI, macros, and ODS). [Remember, you can insert the same PROC GKPI code into Web Report Studio as …
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Tell Me about those Pesky CLASS Variables, Part 1: GLM and Reference Coding
While many analysts understand how to interpret the parameter estimates from linear regression with continuous input variables, they may feel less comfortable with parameter estimates from models with categorical inputs. SAS modeling procedures (such a…
Career Thoughts – The Rise and Rise of the Statistician
As my kids have got older and have had to make decisions about which subjects to continue, and which to drop, I’ve paid closer attention to the general trends in some specific areas. Whilst I’m not sure that either of my kids will follow in my footstep…