The 2011 SAS Professionals Convention is to be held July 12th – 14th in Marlow. Book before June 13th at the reduced rate of £100+VAT. If you plan to go (why wouldn’t you?), don’t miss the early bird discount.
Sadly, for the third year running, event…
The 2011 SAS Professionals Convention is to be held July 12th – 14th in Marlow. Book before June 13th at the reduced rate of £100+VAT. If you plan to go (why wouldn’t you?), don’t miss the early bird discount.
Sadly, for the third year running, event…
When I was in vegas for the SAS Global Forum earlier this year, I have to admit I came away confused on where SAS was going over the next few years. The kick off session had a few good insights into some new feature functions and the theme of Big Data and Social Media came through strongly. But how SAS […]
Recently Moody’s warned the US government to degrade its credit rating if the nation’s debt limit increase is not approved [Ref. 1]. The news came right after Standard & Poor’s lowered US’s sovereign rating from AAA to AA. Those rating change…
Recently Moody’s warned the US government to degrade its credit rating if the nation’s debt limit increase is not approved [Ref. 1]. The news came right after Standard & Poor’s lowered US’s sovereign rating from AAA to AA. Those rating change…
It’s wonderful. It’s awful. It’s wonderfully awful and awfully wonderful. –Frommer’s Las Vegas 2010
June at last! June, July and August (great thanks to French colleagues!) would be the best time to prepare a paper for next year’s SAS Global Forum (SGF, 2012 in Orlando, Florida). SGF2012 will hold at the “real” Walt Disney at Orlando […]
Fiona McNeill just posted a comment on my blog post about my guess that SAS 9.3 will play peekaboo just as we are in the middle of finishing the SAS 9.2 install. She commented “Just to clarify, you will be able to go from SAS 9.1.3 directly to SAS 9.3 – without having to do the interim […]
Cramer’s V is a measure of association for nominal variables. Effectively it is the Pearson chi-square statistic rescaled to have values between 0 and 1, as follows:V = sqrt(X^2 / [nobs * (min(ncols, nrows) – 1)])where X^2 is the Pearson chi-square, n…