The ‘highly skewed’ and ‘highly irregular’ loss data from the insurance and banking world is routinely fitted by a simple beta/ lognormal/gamma/Pareto distribution. While looking at the distribution plot, I bet that many people don’t want to buy this…
NOTE: Base SAS Tip Sheets
I think I may have mentioned these in passing before, but they’re certainly worth a repeat reference. The right-hand margin of the Base SAS Focus Area on the SAS Support web site offers a number of free tip sheets for download. I’ve been using the…
NOTE: Base SAS Tip Sheets
I think I may have mentioned these in passing before, but they’re certainly worth a repeat reference. The right-hand margin of the Base SAS Focus Area on the SAS Support web site offers a number of free tip sheets for download. I’ve been using the…
Updating your global style
Every six months or so I try to find a recent picture that captures who I am and what I am feeling. Loading this into my various social/online profiles in Twitter, SAS Community, Forums, LinkedIn, corporate internal, Facebook etc then take me a bit of …
An easy solution for Multi-Sheet EXCEL reporting
Currently the only way to output SAS datasets as a multi-sheet EXCEL workbook for reporting is to use ExcelXP ODS tagset. I like this method a lot, because it can generate stylish multiple EXCEL sheets and is highly customizable. However, in practice i…
An easy solution for Multi-Sheet EXCEL reporting
Currently the only way to output SAS datasets as a multi-sheet EXCEL workbook for reporting is to use ExcelXP ODS tagset. I like this method a lot, because it can generate stylish multiple EXCEL sheets and is highly customizable. However, in practice i…