In the early days of the discipline of statistics, R.A. Fisher argued with great vehemence against Egon Pearson (and Jerzy Neyman) over the foundational notions supporting statistical inference. The personal invective recorded is somewhat amusing an…
So many autoexecs; three tips for BI administrators
BASE SAS users are already familiar with the autoexec file. This is a .sas file that typically resides in the installation folder of the SAS executable. Instructions for setting it up in UNIX, Windows, and other environments is readily available on the…
Computing the onset and end of daylight saving time in SAS: The EASY way!
I was looking at some SAS documentation when I saw a Base SAS function that I never knew existed. The NWKDOM function returns the date for the nth occurrence of a weekday for the specified month and year. I surely could have used that function last spring when I blogged […]
NOTE: More on Date Increments (INTCK and INTNX)
It’s always encouraging to get feedback about my blog articles and/or see an article spark some conversation. Last week’s Date Increments (INTNX and INTCK) featured the INTNX function for incrementing (or decrementing) date, time, and datetime values b…
SAS and VBA (8): What VBA can do for SAS?
The eventual answer is user interface (I really don’t mean SAS/AF) with or without Excel.
In the Windows environment, SAS provides data access layer by ADO and ADO.NET. We can build the applications using SAS at the backend through ADO.NET. Sinc…
Hello Groovy in SAS 9.3
see, it’s hip to be square ‘cuz SAS has a new PROC that’s GROOVY -Chris Hemedinger, Poetry on our own terms These days I played Proc Groovy (new in SAS 9.3) for a while because Groovy natively supports JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) data format. I downloaded much JSON data in the past few weeks(Github archive […]