Category: SAS

Star Schema Options in OLAP Cubes

In the past couple months, this scenario has occurred twice. So thought I’d share a quick remedy ~ and save for my future reference when this occurs again :). In Star Schemas, there are sometimes occasions where the data quality isn’t exactly perfec…

SAS Forum Papers online – all the way back to 1976!

Just noticed over on sascommunity,org (http://www.sascommunity.org/wiki/SAS_Global_Forum_Proceedings) that they have posted scanned copies of all the papers from SAS Forum (SUGI) all the way back to 1976!
Wonder how many people who presented in 1976 ar…

Setting the stage for SAS Global Forum

SAS Global Forum 2011 just over two weeks away.

The R&D and product management teams are preparing the demos to show on stage during the highly-visible opening sessions. A tremendous amount of work goes into planning the program. It’s great to …

Updating SAS PC Files Server Port

When installing the SAS PC File server it defaults to using port 8621. But if you have the SAS Stored Process server installed in SAS 9.2 it also uses port 8621. So when trying to start the SAS PC File server as a Windows services it won’t start. To change the port, open the SAS […]

Example 8.30: Compare Poisson and negative binomial count models

How similar can a negative binomial distribution get to a Poisson distribution?When confronted with modeling count data, our first instinct is to use Poisson regression. But in practice, count data is often overdispersed. We can fit the overdispersio…

Allowing user to publish content that everyone can automatically see in the portal

Doing some research on the new SAS Addin for Microsoft Outlook 4.3, to trouble shout an issue at a customer site (more on that later) when I came across this post on the SAS Support site. Sample 36921: Using the SAS® Add-In for Microsoft Office to publish documents that can be accessed from the SAS® […]