Having just returned from SAS Global Forum 2011 in Las Vegas, I’m now looking ahead to this year’s SAS Professionals Convention. It’ll be in Marlow, April 12th to 14th. More information will be coming to the SAS Professional web site soon.
Category: SAS
What Didn’t Stay in Vegas
Just flew back from Vegas, and boy, are my arms tired! (ba-dump)
If you attended SAS Global Forum, you probably learned a lot of things you didn’t know. But if you were a SAS employee, you also learned a lot of things you didn’t know. One of th…
Hammer time with high school students
This morning I delivered a talk to visiting high school students at the SAS campus. The topic: using SAS to analyze Twitter content.
Being teenagers, high school students are well familiar with Twitter. But this batch of students was also very …
Example 8.34: lack of robustness of t test with small n
Tim Hesterberg has effectively argued for a larger role for resampling based inference in introductory statistics courses (and statistical practice more generally). While the Central Limit Theorem is a glorious result, and the Student t-test remarkabl…
NOTE: Loading Data Set Variables Into Macro Variables (%SYSCALL SET)
SAS Global Forum still offers plenty of learning opportunities for the hard-core coder. Quite apart from presenting my paper in Coders’ Corner, I took the opportunity of spending some time in some of the sessions. I leaned plenty of new-old stuff, i.e….
Regularized Discriminant Analysis
Demo SAS implementation of Regularized (Linear) Discriminate Analysis of J. Friedman (1989)[1]. Simpler introduction can be found at [2]. Regularized QDA follows similarly.
To save coding, I called R within SAS to finish the computation. For details…
Creating a search engine in SAS
Its the age of the search engine! I remember people “yahoo”ing during the late 90’s and “Google”ing till the late 2k’s and now “Bing”ing.I just wondered.. Why not SAS? So I started off by doing some reading on the yahoo search engine API’s. They have n…
Predict unemployment rate for Election 2012 by SAS
Since recently President Obama announced that he is seeking reelection, the unemployment rate on November 2012 would decide the result. The Wall Street Journal averaged 54 economists’ predication and concluded that the number is going to be 7.7%. App…