Boo! Scary charts in honor of All Hallows Eve

In the United States today is the scariest day of the year – All Hallows Eve. Tonight school children will run around dressed as monsters or Angry Birds demanding a treat from their neighbors.  So here some treats for the SAS Business Intelligen…

Proc report for simple statistics

Ken Beath, of Macquarie University, commented on an earlier entry that the best way to generate summary statistics is using proc report. While the best tools might differ, depending on the purpose, we wanted to share Ken’s code demonstrating how to re…

SAS Error Message with an Attitude

I may have giggled snorted bellowed with laughter when I saw this error message in my log today. NOTE: There were 0 observations read from the data set WORK.TEST. WHERE 0 /* an obviously FALSE WHERE clause */ ; NOTE: The data set WORK.TEST has 0 observations and 15 variables. NOTE: DATA statement used (Total […]