Category: SAS

Meet Maura Stokes of the Advanced Analytics Department at SAS

Maura Stokes works in the Statistical Applications Department in Advanced Analytics at SAS. Maura is also a member of the review board for support.sas.com. She works hard to provide you the information that you want as well as the statistical fea…

Did you know … that the SAS Global Forum videos are available?

Once again, Alan Hoffler and Brendan Bailey trolled the halls of SAS Global Forum with a camera and microphone. They interviewed everyone from the SAS Student Scholarship Winner to John Sall, Jim Davis, Dr. Goodnight, and even yours truly.

You c…

Proc FCMP

A long time ago I figured out how to write functions for SAS using SAS/Toolkit. It was not a straightforward process and not very useful. In fact, someone recently asked me about it and I was unable to share much useful info. However, I did find pro…

Searching the Forums for Answers

User discussion forums are a great way to find answers to your problems. I’ve searched forums for help with updating operating systems, fixing the washing machine, and selecting new plumbing fixtures. In all cases, the forums have been helpful a…

Ways to Get Involved in sasCommunity.org

Contributed by Lainie Hoverstad on behalf of the sasCommunity.org Advisory Board

When SAS Global Forum 2009 is over, join the user community online at sasCommunity.org—the collaborative online community for SAS users worldwide.

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Run data mining codes following William Potts

FYI: SAS Enterprise Miner and SAS Text Miner Procedures: Reference for SAS 9.1.3, see:
 
http://support.sas.com/documentation/onlinedoc/miner/emtmsas913/listing.html
 
This entry DOES exist in the SAS Support website, but it can’t be found by any search engine or documentation tree view. You’re recommended to download these files immediately due to SAS’s easy-dead hyperlinks.^-^
 
ps.SAS Institute provides no support […]

Slick spline plot in SAS

Here is an example of a slick spline (using penalized b-splines) plot in SAS. The plot is created with SGPLOT procedure. I hope SAS will add such “functions” also to model based procedures such as GLM, MIXED, GENMOD, …

Windows 7

Ok, I am testing out Windows 7 and it seems great…except it didn’t recognize my printer and wouldn’t let me install the driver. It errored out with:Unable to Install Printer. The printer driver is not compatible with a policy enabled on your computer…