The following is an excerpt from my forthcoming book: Creating Custom Tasks for SAS Enterprise Guide using Microsoft .NET. If your custom task generates a SAS program, the chances are pretty high that your program will reference one or more variables within a SAS data set. Despite our best efforts, […]
Example 10.3: Enhanced scatterplot with marginal histograms
Back in example 8.41 we showed how to make a graphic combining a scatterplot with histograms of each variable. A commenter suggested we change the R graphic to allow post-hoc plotting of, for example, lowess lines. In addition, there are further refi…
Behind the scenes: Statistical Business Analysis certification exam
Ever wonder how the SAS Global Certification team comes up with a new exam? Well I’m about to take you behind the scenes of our latest certification – SAS Certified Statistical Business Analyst Using SAS 9: Regression and Modeling Credential. Wit…
Statistical Notes (5): Confidence Intervals for Difference Between Independent Binomial Proportions Using SAS
A guy notices a bunch of targets scattered over a barn wall, and in the center of each, in the "bulls-eye," is a bullet hole. "Wow," he says to the farmer, "that’s pretty good shooting. How’d you do it?" "Oh," says the farmer, "it was easy. I painted the targets after I shot the holes." […]
Where is SAS Output Anyway?
It is said in An Introduction to R, one of R official documents (Current Version: 2.15.1): There is an important difference in philosophy between S (and hence R) and the other main statistical systems. In S a statistical analysis is normally done as a series of steps, with intermediate results being stored in objects. Thus […]
New Book on Confidence Intervals for Proportions by Prof. Newcombe
Check it out: a new book on confidence intervals for proportions by Prof. Robert G. Newcombe just recently available from CRC Press: Confidence Intervals for Proportions and Related Measures of Effect Size This book also supplies a set of Excel spreadsheets to calculating CIs, see http://www.crcpress.com/product/isbn/9781439812785 Other users may be interested on a SAS or […]