Back in 2009, I announced that SAS was developing a version of its business analytics platform for use on the Nintendo Wii. I think I gave our legal department a heart attack with this news, until they realized that I had posted it on April 1. At SAS Global Forum […]
Query the Windows registry within your SAS program
On the SAS-L mailing list, a participant posed this question (paraphrased): How can I tell which date format my Windows session is using: European format (with day first) versus USA format (with month first)? I’m reading in output from a Windows file listing, and need to know how to interpret […]
Migrating sas from XP(32) to Win7(64)
A client that is preparing to roll out windows 7 64 bit to all its employees asked me to ensure that the sas functionality is not lost. Currently they use V9.2 on xp in the good old fashioned way – disparate pc installations of base/stat/graph/ets
The Demise of the Gansy of Gnomes Gardening Club
This is a tale of woe and misery, but also one of hope. Woe and misery Our tale begins more than seven years ago, an age ago in Internet Time. A cloud (nay, another type of cloud than what may come to your mind in this Age) pervaded the halls […]
Example 9.32: Multiple testing simulation
In examples 9.30 and 9.31 we explored corrections for multiple testing and then extracting p-values adjusted by the Benjamini and Hochberg (or FDR) procedure. In this post we’ll develop a simulation to explore the impact of “strong” and “weak” control…
SAS Talks features support.sas.com usage tips
~ Contributed by Melissa Perez, Marketing Specialist, SAS ~ As most SAS customers are well aware, there is a load of content on support.sas.com. But how do you know where to find that information? Alas, we created a demo to walk through the main sectio…