Do you still have the newspaper delivered to your house? I do. It is part of our morning routine. It dominates our weekend mornings. We sit together at the kitchen table with our coffee and our favorite section of the paper. I get the home an…
Category: SAS
Keeping Up with ZIP Codes Changes
Today was site maintenance day for me. There were several pages that I needed to update. I have to be careful when I start working on these pages because I see a shiny thread and I follow it. Before I know it, it’s lunch time and I’ve been read…
SAS now goes with Bayesian methods
New versions of SAS (9.2) procedures GENMOD, LIFEREG, and PHREG enable users to use Bayesian approach for estimating model parameters. The computations are done with McMC methods. There is also a new experimental procedure MCMC. See more here. I wonder…
Numbers and Magic Tricks
I was in a conference room waiting for a meeting to start the other day. Several people in the room were talking about an interesting numbers trick that Clarke Thacher had posted to his internal blog. All agreed that others might be intrigued by…
SAS Publishing Bookstore to Expand!
Contributed by Sean Gargan and Judi Rourke-O’Briant, SAS Publishing
You may not notice the crowds at the SAS Publishing Bookstore but the virtual aisles are about to see a big increase in traffic. Beginning in September, the bookstore will open …
I Found It in the Forum
Whew! I’ve been speeding around information stops all over the Web. That’s quite a workout. As alluded to in my last post, you can find really useful information in some unlikely places. Given that I challenged you to broaden your Internet stop…
Thanks San Diego
Thank you to everybody at the San Diego SAS User’s Group. I had a great time meeting everyone and presenting. The paper and code can be found on my site at:http://www.pelicanprogramming.com/sgf08/sgf08.htmlI will also put the power point up when I ge…
Reading in Exotic Locations
As August draws to a close and school systems all over the country are calling students back to their desks, I can’t help but daydream about lavish vacation spots with warm breezes and cool blue water. But, this post isn’t about vacationing. It i…