We often work in settings where the data set has a lot of missing data– some missingness in the (many) covariates, some in the main exposure of interest, and still more in the outcome. (Nick describes this as “job security for statisticians”).Some ana…
Big ups to Mr Mark Wastney
Mark was one of our star DI developers over at OptimalBI.com where we took his legendary Oracle data warehousing and ETL skills and showed him how to do it better and faster with SAS DI. Hey even managed to pick up and deliver some data quality projects using Data Flux. (picked up as in he was dropped in the deep-end […]
Ugly Web Report Studio Reports?
If you only use the default settings when building Web Report Studio report, the results may not be very attractive. For instance in the following report the graphs are different sizes and the spacing between them is awkward.
To change the image s…
Enterprise Guide welcome screen
The first screen you see when opening SAS Enterprise Guide is the Welcome to SAS Enterprise Guide window, allowing you to open a previously open project (1), create a new project (2), or (3) open the supplied Tutorial. I typically open Enterprise Guide to create a set of code. For some reason, all of these years I have clicked on the New Project button and then from the Enterprise Guide menu selected File->New->Program. I think that since Enterprise Guide is always 1st a Project file, rather than a .sas program file that this was the order I needed to go. Of course, there is a better way. If I select link for New SAS Program in the New Area (numbered 2 in the screenshot) it not only opens a new SAS program node, it creates it within a SAS Enterprise Guide project. Doh! What was I thinking all of these years. Made me laugh out loud to realize the lost productivity. Is anyone else out there making the same mistake?
StackExchange and CrossValidated: An Epidemiologist’s Review
This seems like as good a day as any to review CrossValidated, and the whole StackExchange constellation of websites. It’s been a month since I joined, exactly, and today I also crossed the 1,000 reputation threshold on the site. So why not give my impressions of it? First, how I got there in the first […]
Birthday gift code puzzle
This is a SAS code puzzle. The code works as is, but can you make it simpler? We do this while enjoying simulation and the quirkiness of the Gregorian calendar. The problem A person receives a gift on a random day. Relative to his birthday, how many da…