Category: SAS

NOTE: What Would You Add or Change? SASware Ballot is Open

The annual SASware ballot is now open for business. The ballot is SAS’s annual survey of customers to see what new features and enhanced features they would like. The results are traditionally presented at SAS Global Forum. Democracy in action!

.netrc in UNIX

I came across this interesting feature when i was trying to FTP a file from a FTP server to my Unix box. I used this convetional method to FTP a file earlier:ftp -n $SERVERquote user $LOGINquote pass $PASSWORDcd ..ls BKP files.txt The problem with this…

Don’t waste time opening Web Report Studio reports with monthly/quarterly/yearly data!

SAS Web Report Studio 4.2 provides you an excellent interface to schedule reports to refresh, because why would you want the report to generate for every user every time they open the report when the data is only updating weekly/monthly/etc?

During yo…

Example 8.15: Firth logistic regression

In logistic regression, when the outcome has low (or high) prevalence, or when there are several interacted categorical predictors, it can happen that for some combination of the predictors, all the observations have the same event status. A similar e…

Edmonton SAS User Group (eSUG) Suggestions

At Edmonton SAS User Group (eSUG) meeting last October 27th, 2010, Matt Malczewski delivered his SAS and Social Media: What’s in it for me??? presentation.  One question he posed to the group was how Facebook and LinkedIn could or should be u…

New Home Page Coming This Week

Update: Out with the old; in with the new. The new page is live!

Don’t be caught by surprise. The Home page for support.sas.com will change this week. It will go from the page you are used to seeing to the page we have been running as a beta. If…

Process Explorer: tools for the SAS admin on Windows

It was over two years ago that I shared the tip of using Process Explorer to look under the covers at which SAS processes were running on your Windows environment.

Process Explorer recently received a refresh, and it’s worth downloading the new v…

Data Management Maturity Models

I am a great fan of Maturity Models. I find them an excellent way of articulating to a business user where their organisation is at in terms of technology, governance or business processes and what we need to do to improve them. There are a quite a few Maturity Models out there now, from Data […]