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…
Web Report Studio: Adding Drill-Down Filter Based on a Date
When I was creating the Summary and Detailed reports for the SAS Global Forum paper, I was demonstrating how to link from the weekly chart to the detailed report about the week. On my first try with my Week Filter based on the date value – it just would not work. Eeek! To fix the problem I made a new data item that was a character value. This posts talks about my strategy. [You can read our paper “Get Your Fast Pass to Building Business Intelligence with SAS and Google Analytics”. The presentation goes into more detail, but here’s some past articles about Google Analytics. ] What Should Happen When you click on the bar that represents the week – you actually drill-down to the Weekly Detailed report. You cannot use a date value as this filter – you must use a character based filter for this prompt. If you need help setting up the filter or creating the link – just refer to the ”Get Your Fast Pass to Building Business Intelligence with SAS and Google Analytics” paper. Creating the Proper Filter in the Information Map First you need to create a data item based on the date variable. I used a CASE statement to test if the week was […]
my 5 Important reasons to use Proc SQL
• Proc SQL requires few lines of SAS code compared with datastep and or Proc steps
• Frequency counting can be done in no time… which is very helpful during the QC or validation
• Proc SQL can merge datasets …