“Frankenstorm” is what the U.S. National Weather Service is calling the combination of Hurricane Sandy, an early winter storm heading east, and a blast of arctic air from the North. SAS headquarters is located in the middle of the U.S. east c…
Breaking Through the Fog in Hamilton
Last week the Golden Horseshoe SAS User Group met in what can only be described as challenging weather conditions. The fog rolled in thick and deep last Thursday morning which didn’t bode well for having all of our attendees make it out to the me…
Example 10.7: Fisher vs. Pearson
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…