The court case between SAS and World Programming Ltd (WPL) recently ended with both sides claiming victory. No surprise there then! Outside the court, it became a battle of the press releases…
WPL’s press release told of David slaying…
Category: SAS
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In general, the more programming languages you work with, the better you are going to become as a programmer. I try to work with a new language about every year, so I can stretch my little brain in lots of different directions.However, the downside is…
Copyrights and Apple Pie
Like all writers (and artists, musicians, software developers, and other creators of content) I am concerned about the problem of copyright infringement. (Here is my previous post about this.) So I was interested to find out that while I was at the Western Users of SAS Software conference, there was a veritable brouhaha about this […]
Four tips for building a social media audience
Social media is an information gathering and exchange tool. It is one tool in the communication grab bag – an idea that is slowly starting to sink in for marketing professionals and non-professionals alike, which is making social media more appr…
Social media isn’t for everyone, is it?
The NorthEast SAS Users Group conference invited Dave Thomas, Executive Director for New Marketing Labs, to give the keynote address at Sunday night’s opening session. His address was titled “Why Should SAS Professionals Use Social Media?” T…
Wahoo – Elvis has entered the building (and he brought the SAS 4.3 BI Clients with him)
Thanks to Chris for posting a comment to let me know that the SAS 9.2 – 4.3 BI Clients have been released and the doco is out as well:
http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/whatsdiff/63928/HTML/default/viewer.htm#pdtnewspecifics.htm
There…
Example 8.14: generating standardized regression coefficients
Standardized (or beta) coefficients from a linear regression model are the parameter estimates obtained when the predictors and outcomes have been standardized to have variance = 1. Alternatively, the regression model can be fit and then standardized …
Generate random numbers
options pageno=1 nodate ls=80 ps=64;data u1(keep=x);      seed = 104;      do i = 1 to 5;            call ranuni(seed, x);            output;      end;     …