Something I’ve only noticed recently, which I haven’t seen in the SAS® 9.2 What’s New documentation, is an apparent change relating to support for custom, or user-defined, metadata permissions in the SAS Management Console Authorization Manager plug-in. I hadn’t noticed this change before because I’ve not yet had a need for custom metadata permissions myself. […]
Example 8.29: Risk ratios and odds ratios
When can you safely think of an odds ratio as being similar to a risk ratio?Many people find odds ratios hard to interpret, and thus would prefer to have risk ratios. In response to this, you can find several papers that purport to convert an odds rat…
New EG 4.3 Hotfix – 5 March 2011
Just noticed Chris has posted an entry outlining a new hotfix for Enterprise Guide 4.3.
Details are here: http://ftp.sas.com/techsup/download/hotfix/HF2/C44.html#C44006
Making SAS Interactive (Part 2): Using %window and %display
Its the world of GUI. And you are left nowhere if you don’t provide the users, the luxury (or rather fulfill the basic needs) of giving a Graphical User Interface. This holds good even for SAS. SAS came up with the tool called SAS/AF and SAS EG which p…
Hard disks are cheap, hosted disk space isn’t – why ?
Because nobody has decided to disrupt the market and make oodles of disk space available at little or no cost. I can now purchase a 1tb external hard drive for about NZD $99. This is for the disk and the external drive inclosure. I can get a dropbox account with 2GB of disk storage free. […]
Music social network on DNA microarray
The incoming 2011 KDD Cup data mining competition [1] by Yahoo! Lab posts an interesting challenge to predict the users’ ratings for individual songs out of this company’s huge music database. Unlike previous KDD Cups projects filled by tons of varia…