In the previous blog on CLASS variables, we developed the idea of creating design variables and examined GLM and reference coding. Consider our previous scenario of modeling the average amount spent on a credit card (SPEND) as a function of the variab…
Dashboards:Tips for Designing Dashboards with SAS Code
I realize not everyone is using the SAS BI system, but that does not mean that you don’t need to create a dashboard. In BASE SAS, dashboards are created using fairly simple SAS code (GKPI, macros, and ODS). [Remember, you can insert the same PROC GKPI code into Web Report Studio as …
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Tell Me about those Pesky CLASS Variables, Part 1: GLM and Reference Coding
While many analysts understand how to interpret the parameter estimates from linear regression with continuous input variables, they may feel less comfortable with parameter estimates from models with categorical inputs. SAS modeling procedures (such a…
Career Thoughts – The Rise and Rise of the Statistician
As my kids have got older and have had to make decisions about which subjects to continue, and which to drop, I’ve paid closer attention to the general trends in some specific areas. Whilst I’m not sure that either of my kids will follow in my footstep…
A day in the Life of a SAS/STAT developer
~ Contributed by Warren F. Kuhfeld, Sr Manager, R&D, SAS ~ I love the classic Beatles song, A Day in the Life, and the line: “Woke up, fell out of bed, dragged a comb across my head.” I am a member of the SAS/STAT development team, and this i…
Using Windows PowerShell to download a file from a SAS Workspace session
In a previous article, I described how to use Windows PowerShell to connect to a remote SAS Workspace, run a SAS program, and retrieve the results. In that example, the only results I retrieved were the SAS log and SAS listing (text) output, if any. When you run a SAS […]