I connect to more SAS server environments than your average SAS user. In a given week, I probably run SAS Enterprise Guide connecting to at least five different Windows-based servers, a few Unix-based servers, and maybe even a z/OS machine as wel…
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ODS Style Manager not readily available? Use this tip from SAS Support:
Another Guest Post from Tricia Aanderud, SAS Programmer Extraordinaire!
Here’s a hint from the SAS Support site that shows you how to see all the installed templates.
If you don’t have SAS EG, this code allows you to quickly see the different styles. …
Get ‘Em While They’re Still Hot!
SAS Press authors have served up 21 new titles for you this year alone! Whether you’re looking for topics related to analytics, programming, or business effectiveness, we’ve got new titles that will help you use SAS or JMP more effectively. An…
Should Accountants Be Required to Code
Sometimes, I wonder where I fit on the career spectrum. I am trained as a CPA and 90% of my daily work involves accounting in some form. However, I am also a programmer who geeks out when I find a new way to automate processes or transform data into knowledge. My boss made a comment […]
Computer Science isn’t just for geeks anymore
Computer science is more than the pursuit of “let’s see what we can make this computer do.” If that’s your only goal, then you might make a fine computer geek, but a lousy computer scientist. In her blog post for Computer Science Education Week,…
NOTE: Peek At Your Data Details Before Opening (in EG)
I spotted a nice post from Chris on the SAS Dummy blog. Enterprise Guide 4.2 saw the introduction of a feature that allows you to view the details of your data sets (such as the data set labels, how many records the data sets contain, and more) while y…
Proc Fcmp(3): brute force for a distribution’s pdf
Proc Fcmp can produce arbitrary distribution formulas. In this example, suppose that I don’t know too much statistics, what if I want to evaluate the pdf of the absolute value of the subtraction between two independent random variable from the unifo…
Example 8.17: Logistic regression via MCMC
In examples 8.15 and 8.16 we considered Firth logistic regression and exact logistic regression as ways around the problem of separation, often encountered in logistic regression. (Re-cap: Separation happens when all the observations in a category sha…