I was recently inspired to comment on this blog post, asking is R is a cure for ‘mindless statistics’. Anyone whose familiar with statistics used in applied fields like epidemiology, sociology, social sciences generally will be familiar with the idea of a ‘statistical ritual’. Rather than think about the proper statistical approach to every question, […]
Category: SAS
First One In Gets the Win
Yikes, it’s been a while since the last update! So I will try to keep this one short and useful. Most everybody knows there are essentially two ways for tables to be merged in SAS: using the merge statement in the data step and using a join in SQL. …
First One In Gets the Win
Yikes, it’s been a while since the last update! So I will try to keep this one short and useful. Most everybody knows there are essentially two ways for tables to be merged in SAS: using the merge statement in the data step and using a join in SQL. …
First One In Gets the Win
Yikes, it’s been a while since the last update! So I will try to keep this one short and useful. Most everybody knows there are essentially two ways for tables to be merged in SAS: using the merge statement in the data step and using a join in SQL. …
Six things I learned in Six Weeks
A few things I’ve noticed in my first six weeks in the private sector: People have varying standards of quality work – Coworker A checked every last number (by hand!) on a 32 page report that involved combining PDF’s and we weren’t able to import into SAS. Coworker B missed that my sum of four […]
Removing the Object Names from the BI Dashboard
Each indicator added to the dashboard begins with the saved name of the indicator. Take the example below, I dragged the spark table indicator ’02_Top_CustomerSAT’ into the new dashboard. Of course the 02_Top_CustomerSAT name is not necessarily what my…
The team behind the SAS Clinical Trials Programmer Using SAS 9 certification
At the end of June, SAS launched a new credential: the SAS Certified Clinical Trials Programmer Using SAS 9. This was the culmination of months of work by lots of people. In our press release, we identified that we worked with “a broad cross-section …
How to add HTMLBlue to your list of styles in SAS Enterprise Guide
One of the great innovations with SAS 9.3 is the focus on ODS statistical graphics. “Wait a minute,” you’re thinking, “weren’t ODS graphics added in SAS 9.2?” Yes, that’s true. But with SAS 9.3 there is even more capability: more analytical SAS proce…