Category: SAS

Five reasons to use the SAS DATA Step or PROC SQL

When I joined SAS Institute I had no knowledge of SAS. I studied, researched and practiced. The questions I asked would make even the most seasoned programmer blush a beetroot red! Those were an intense nine months—I’ll tell you more in a lat…

New DI Admin Course from SAS

Back in September I wrote about seeing some New Targeted Admin Courses from SAS. Today I saw that the list of admin courses has been further extended to add a new SAS Data Integration Studio: Administration course. There’s more information about this new training course, including the course outline, on the SAS web site at […]

Celebration is in the Air

… and it may not just be the spirit of the season! We’ve finally arrived: the final user group meeting of 2010. It’s hard to believe, to be honest… this has been such a busy, full year with so much to celebrate. I’ll have a lot of numbers, testamon…

A SAS data miner without Enterprise Miner

SAS Enterprise Miner (EM) is indeed a fancy tool for a SAS programmer who wants to switch to the field of data mining. It is like the point-and-click camera: you drag several nodes onto the diagram, run it and everything is settled. And I was quite i…

Example 8.18: A Monte Carlo experiment

In recent weeks, we’ve explored methods to fit logistic regression models when a state of quasi-complete separation exists. We considered Firth’s penalized likelihood approach, exact logistic regression, and Bayesian models using Markov chain Monte Ca…

Using Stored Processes to Improve Information Maps

Integrating Stored Processes into Information Maps can improve process performance as well as provide extra flexibility and complete query generation control. In order to showcase how powerful this combination is, I am presenting this topic during a SA…

NOTE: Web Report Studio Performance in SAS TALKS

This Thursday (16th December) sees SAS’s Angela Hall talk about Web Report Studio Performance Improvements in the latest of the SAS TALKS series of webinars. It’s free. Just visit the SAS TALKS home page to register.

Angela is well-known through …