Dear Miss SAS Answers, We recently upgraded to SAS 9.2 (PC Version) and now when I double click on the SAS icon on the desktop, the program automatically executes rather than simply opening in the program editor. How do I change this so that double-cli…
Predictive Modelling Competition
One of my clients is running a predictive modelling competition. The competition is free to enter and has a $10,000 prize fund. Interested? Read on…
The competition is being hosted at Kaggle. It’s very simple to register and to enter. The challenge …
Predictive Modelling Competition
One of my clients is running a predictive modelling competition. The competition is free to enter and has a $10,000 prize fund. Interested? Read on…
The competition is being hosted at Kaggle. It’s very simple to register and to enter. The challenge …
tty Connection + sas7bdat: useR! 2011 Presentation Slides
Experimenting with a tty Connection for R I presented twice at this years useR!. The first was a regular talk on the tty connection patch for R. The talk went smoothly, despite a live demonstration using the DLP-232PC data acquisition module (datasheet). The slides for this presentation are here: shotwell-tty-useR-2011.pdf The image above is a […]
SAS and an Apps store – yes please
Interesting post on the SAS Blog site titled “The vision for SAS Platform as a Service”. One thing that took my interest was this comment: “You are an independent SAS consultant with a growing client list in the field of fraud detection for government programs. You’ve created an add-on reporting component for the SAS Fraud […]
Sampling from a Bayesian Posterior Distribution in SAS
One of the things that frequently comes up in my research is the need to estimate a parameter from data, and then randomly draw samples from that parameter’s distribution to plug into another model. If you have a regular estimate from something like PROC LOGISTIC or PROC GENMOD, this is easy as pie, as SAS […]