While skewness and kurtosis are not as often calculated and reported as mean and standard deviation, they can be useful at times. Skewness is the 3rd moment around the mean, and characterizes whether the distribution is symmetric (skewness=0). Kurtos…
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Example 8.42: skewness and kurtosis and more moments (oh my!)
While skewness and kurtosis are not as often calculated and reported as mean and standard deviation, they can be useful at times. Skewness is the 3rd moment around the mean, and characterizes whether the distribution is symmetric (skewness=0). Kurtos…
Example 8.42: skewness and kurtosis and more moments (oh my!)
While skewness and kurtosis are not as often calculated and reported as mean and standard deviation, they can be useful at times. Skewness is the 3rd moment around the mean, and characterizes whether the distribution is symmetric (skewness=0). Kurtos…
Which tables contribute to that SAS information map?
About a year ago (wow, has it been that long?), I posted an example program that lets you report on the contents of a SAS information map. Using my example, you can see the data items, filters, and folder structure within a given information map….
Some PlatformAdmin.com Milestones …
My platformadmin.com blog has seen a few milestones of late: It had 1st birthday recently (boy that year went quickly!) … then, thanks to mentions from Waynette Tubs in the June edition of the SAS® Technical Report, and Andrew Ratcliffe in his excellent NOTE: blog, it saw a fair bit of extra traffic this month. […]
Updated SAS Enterprise Guide Admin Paper
One of the papers I regularly recommended to administrators of SAS® Enterprise Guide was TS-788 What SAS® Administrators Should Know about Libraries, Metadata, and SAS® Enterprise Guide 4.1 (PDF), especially for its discussion of the AssignMode extended attribute. Thanks to a recent post by Chris Hemedinger on The SAS Dummy blog, I’ve discovered that there’s […]
Updated Discussion Forums Arrive on Thursday
I’ve always suffered from a strong sense of deja vu. Never has the feeling been stronger than this week. This blog was started way back in 2007 to keep you posted on changes on support.sas.com. I remember writing a post one morning in October 20…
NOTE: SYSTASK With An Unknown Number of Calls
In an earlier article (and the associated article on security) I extolled the virtues of SYSTASK for doing operating system activities in parallel. I gave an example that executed two gzip commands in parallel. But what would you do if you didn’t know …