In addition to the export file wizard and proc export (section 1.2.3 of SAS and R), SAS provides a the nifty little %ds2csv macro that can do this quickly and easily.
The advantages to this approach are that there are a few extra options and that…
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What Time Do They Roll Up the Sidewalks in Cary?
When you travel as much as a typical SAS instructor, you get to be an expert on hotels, restaurants and entertainment. Anyone can figure out where to eat or what to do in downtown Chicago or in Manhattan, but it takes a dedicated traveler to show…
Collaborative Writing: Creating a New Certification Exam
I love a good collaborative project.
Recently, I had the good fortune to work with a global team of Business Intelligence experts to create a new SAS certification exam for “BI Content Development”. Our team spanned 4 continents, worked in 6…
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Reading
Recently finished Analytics at Work: Smarter Decisions, Better Results by Davenport, Harris, and Morison (2010, Harvard Business Press). I’ve assigned it as companion reading for the students who take the Advanced Busin…
SAS/GRAPH "SG" Procedures–Not Just for Statisticians!
If you are a SAS/GRAPH user, you may have heard about the new Statistical Graphics (“SG”) procedures that are new in SAS 9.2. These procedures are designed to make it easier to produce common statistical charts and plots.
You may have assum…
New SAS/ETS, SAS/OR, and SAS/STAT Products Shipping
Contributed by Maura Stokes, Director, Research & Development, SAS
In order to get new analytical functionality to our customers faster than ever, SAS has released new versions of SAS/STAT®, SAS/ETS®, and SAS/OR® software. These pr…
SAS Releases the Third Maintenance Release for SAS 9 .2
Contributed by Marie Dexter, SAS
SAS recently announced the availability of the third maintenance release for SAS 9.2. Maintenance releases are cumulative, so when you apply the third maintenance release, your software will be updated to the curre…
Example 7.38: Kaplan-Meier survival estimates
In example 7.30 we demonstrated how to simulate data from a Cox proportional hazards model.In this and the next few entries, we expand upon support in R and SAS for survival (time-to-event) models. We’ll start with a small, artificial dataset of 19 su…