We’ve all heard that at some point. You heard it when your best friend moved across town or changed schools. They were words of comfort when you returned from summer camp with your first crush. And you heard them again at graduation when you and …
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Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder, Right?
We’ve all heard that at some point. You heard it when your best friend moved across town or changed schools. They were words of comfort when you returned from summer camp with your first crush. And you heard them again at graduation when you and your f…
Automating the migration of SAS Users and Groups
Was working with a customer last week doing a partial migration across SAS environments. I needed to migrate a number of users and groups, not a large number so was easy enough to move them manually. I thought I saw a while ago some automated tools to assist with migrating users and groups, but do […]
Example 8.36: Quadratic equation with real roots
We often simulate data in SAS or R to confirm analytical results. For example, consider the following problem from the excellent text by Rice:Let U1, U2, and U3 be independent random variables uniform on [0, 1]. What is the probability that the roots…
I’m beta-testing 9.3. Buy me a drink?
Greg Nelson and Neil Howard presented a lunchtime keynote talk at SAS Global Forum, and they produced this video, “Revenge of the Semi-Colon People”, to go along with it.
The video features many people from the SAS community, including customers …
The 3 R’s of SAS Training
I am a thinker by nature; always pondering my choices so that I make the most informed decisions. So for me, the Three R’s of SAS Training aren’t “Reading, wRiting and ‘aRithmetic”, they are Reason, Reflect and Ruminate which allows me …
I’m beta-testing 9.3. Buy me a drink?
Greg Nelson and Neil Howard presented a lunchtime keynote talk at SAS Global Forum, and they produced this video, “Revenge of the Semi-Colon People”, to go along with it. The video features many people from the SAS community, including customers and SA…
A macro calls R in SAS for paneled 3d plotting
SAS and R could complement each other. SAS is a versatile ETL (extraction, transformation and loading) machine and its statistical procedures based on generalized linear model are impeccable. R would bring cutting-edge data mining and data visualizatio…