How the power of the Force makes ridding yourself of problematic characters so much easier! I recently was invited to become an alternate instructor for Ron Cody’s SAS Business Knowledge Series class, “SAS Functions by Example”, and had the privilege…
Three statistics books for introductory SAS students
Recently, this question was asked of our SAS training instructors: For a SAS Programming 1: Essentials student, what would be a good book recommendation for a Statistics book? Here are the recommendations (in no particular order): Step-by-Step Basic St…
New Year’s Resolution: Find a New Job with LinkedIn (Part II)
LinkedIn.com is fast becoming a way for professionals to not only network but also look for work in a more clever way. Last week, I discussed ways to enhance your LinkedIn Profile, but there’s…
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Random seeds
A footnote toward Rick Wilkin’s recent article “How to Lie with a Simulation”. (Sit in front of a laptop w/o SAS; have to port all SAS/IML codes into R)
Generated 10 seeds randomly to run Stochastic simulation of Buffon’s needle experiment by R…
Example 9.19: Demonstrating the central limit theorem
A colleague recently asked “why should the average get closer to the mean when we increase the sample size?” We should interpret this question as asking why the standard error of the mean gets smaller as n increases. The central limit theorem shows t…
Uncovering the hidden parts of the SAS log
Before there was CNN or FOX News, people used to get their news from SAS. At least, that’s how I imagine that people kept themselves informed. What else can explain the existence of the NEWS= system option, which helps SAS admins to surface the must-know information to the SAS community? […]