Tim Hesterberg has effectively argued for a larger role for resampling based inference in introductory statistics courses (and statistical practice more generally). While the Central Limit Theorem is a glorious result, and the Student t-test remarkabl…
NOTE: Loading Data Set Variables Into Macro Variables (%SYSCALL SET)
SAS Global Forum still offers plenty of learning opportunities for the hard-core coder. Quite apart from presenting my paper in Coders’ Corner, I took the opportunity of spending some time in some of the sessions. I leaned plenty of new-old stuff, i.e….
Regularized Discriminant Analysis
Demo SAS implementation of Regularized (Linear) Discriminate Analysis of J. Friedman (1989)[1]. Simpler introduction can be found at [2]. Regularized QDA follows similarly.
To save coding, I called R within SAS to finish the computation. For details…
Creating a search engine in SAS
Its the age of the search engine! I remember people “yahoo”ing during the late 90’s and “Google”ing till the late 2k’s and now “Bing”ing.I just wondered.. Why not SAS? So I started off by doing some reading on the yahoo search engine API’s. They have n…
Predict unemployment rate for Election 2012 by SAS
Since recently President Obama announced that he is seeking reelection, the unemployment rate on November 2012 would decide the result. The Wall Street Journal averaged 54 economists’ predication and concluded that the number is going to be 7.7%. App…
Having problems packaging up SAS 9.2 clients for automated deployment/install?
I have had a number of customers who’s IT departments have had no end of trouble trying to package the SAS 9.2 clients for automatic deployment. They typically are trying to use the Microsoft Systems Management Server (SMS) capability to create a no touch way of installing the SAS Clients (Enterprise Guide, AMO etc) on […]