In Example 8.21 we described how to fit a latent class model to data from the HELP dataset using SAS and R. Subjects were classified based on their observed (manifest) status on the following variables (on street or in shelter in past 180 days [homele…
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NOTE: Booked and Ready for SGF (SAS Global Forum)
My SAS Global Forum (SGF) paper proposal has been accepted by the conference organisers and is scheduled for 5:40pm on Wednesday April 6th. You can see further details in the conference agenda builder (warning: big page, slow to load).
My pa…
NOTE: SAS Success
For the second year in a row, SAS has been judged as Best Company To Work For by Fortune. In fact it’s the 14th year in a row that SAS has been included in Fortune’s top 100 companies to work for.
If you are a SAS employee you’ll be pleased; but if yo…
Resetting File Permissions in Windows Server 2008 R2
Today I needed to reset the permissions for a bunch of files in a directory on a SAS server (running Windows Server 2008 R2) so that they reverted back to the inherited permissions from the directory they were contained in (they currently had non-inherited explicit permissions for a particular user). There were too many to […]
Reviewing Installed SAS 9.2 Software and Hotfixes
If you’ve ever needed to review which SAS® software components have been installed on your SAS servers and clients, as well as know which hotfixes may have already been installed, then you will be interested in SAS Usage Note 35968: Using the ViewRegistry Report and other methods to determine the SAS® 9.2 software releases and […]
STUDY ‘DAY’ CLCULATION (ONE-LINER)
ecently I stumbled upon a SUGI-Paper SAS 1-Liners by Stephen Hunt. I liked the way Stephen developed the 1-liner for STUDY DAY calculation.
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One of the most common calculation used across all types of programming is d…
Too Big to Be Accurate(1): Which is the Most Powerful Calculator in the World?
Calculate the factorial of 171 (171!)? Just TRY! It is equal to 171*170*169*….2*1.
1. Google calculator
As Google fanatics, I first try to search the answer via Google:
Whoops, nothing interested returned! Type “170!” and get the output:
Why kinda things happened in this calculator? 171! is just equal to 171*170!.
2. Excel
Switch to Excel spreadsheet. Function fact(*) […]
How to install a loopback adapter on Windows 2003
A loopback adapter can be very useful for testing networking features on a server that doesn’t have a network adapter already installed, and Microsoft provides this feature in Windows Server 2003. To install the Microsoft Loopback Adapter, follow these steps: Go to Start | Control Panel | Add Hardware. In the introductory dialog box, click […]