As I have told you all week – Angela and I will be participating in e-chat at AllAnalytics.com today at 2 PM. The agenda is wide open! It would be great to chat with you – I have certainly appreciated the emails! Here is some of the feedback and photos (click to see larger version) we have received – thanks! Our Readers are the Best! We have really been overwhelmed by the readers of the blogs who have reached out to say they could not wait to get the book. One person gave his son a copy so he could get started early! Join E-Chat Today … Discussing SAS BI Tools, Book Publishing … Do you have a burning question about the SAS BI toolset? Maybe you are considering a purchase and you want some advise? Maybe you are just getting started and have an issue that is stumping you? It’s going to be a fun e-chat! I know the readers are active and curious – certainly keep us on our toes! SAS Press guided the process and worked with us every step of the way. If you are curious about the steps involved in the process, then ask some questions! […]
Test A-IRB approach for credit rating
Basel II or Basel III framework would allow qualified financial institutions to apply their own rating systems for credit risks, such as advanced internal ratings-based approach (A-IRB). The equations of required capital play a big role…
Example 9.21: The birthday "problem" re-examined
The so-called birthday paradox or birthday problem is simply the counter-intutitive discovery that the probability of (at least) two people in a group sharing a birthday goes up surprisingly fast as the group size increases. If the group is only 23 peo…
SAS Report: You’re soaking in it
Do you want your report to look good on the web, or to look good when you print it? Pick one. Before the SAS Report file format, that was the choice that you faced. HTML is perfect for the web browser. It’s easy to scroll through tables, apply an attractive […]
To be or not to be, testing your cube’s existence
Unlike BASE SAS tables, OLAP cubes must exist in within the metadata in order to access from any of the OLAP Viewers. In addition to having some metadata OLAP cubes have a physical file structure presence (at least for MOLAP/HOLAP because it’s a differ…
How to open a SAS information map in SAS Web Report Studio
Business users of SAS are finding the Web Report Studio capabilities incredibly beneficial for viewing, creating, and sharing reports on the Web. The easy-to-use query and reporting software provides a point-and-click interface for building reports f…