We’ve been on overload the last week with urgent requests as the big yearly meeting looms in the not so distant future. Unfortunately, this means that every single employee is frantically pulling data and hammering the db2 server with requests. I’ve been working around the noticeable slowness by either shortening my date ranges but I […]
What’s our sign?
Rick Wicklin and I are engaged in an arms race of birthday-related blog posts. To recap: Rick analyzed national data about births in the USA and what time of year they are most likely to occur. I responded by analyzing the birthdays of my Facebook friends. Rick responded by analyzing […]
Example 9.5: New stuff in SAS 9.3– proc FMM
Finite mixture models (FMMs) can be used in settings where some unmeasured classification separates the observed data into groups with different exposure/outcome relationships. One familiar example of this is a zero-inflated model, where some observat…
Example 9.5: New stuff in SAS 9.3– proc FMM
Finite mixture models (FMMs) can be used in settings where some unmeasured classification separates the observed data into groups with different exposure/outcome relationships. One familiar example of this is a zero-inflated model, where some observat…
Example 9.5: New stuff in SAS 9.3– proc FMM
Finite mixture models (FMMs) can be used in settings where some unmeasured classification separates the observed data into groups with different exposure/outcome relationships. One familiar example of this is a zero-inflated model, where some observat…
More sas7bdat progress
The development version of the read.sas7bdat function (in the sas7bdat package) now reads field labels and formats. In addition, errors of the type “found <x> <type> subheaders where 1 expected” are now a thing of the past. These improvements are largely due to work by Clint Cummins. The function also works on some files generated […]