Last week I presented a SAS Talks session for SAS programmers using SAS Enterprise Guide 4.3. It was well attended, which pleased me. You never know how it’s going to go with a webinar. People register and sign in, but they are at their desks i…
Bayesian Computation with SAS (2).
In Chapter of the book “Bayesian Computation with R” by Jim Albert, the philosoph of Bayesian statistics is introduced using an example where a parameter regarding proportion of college students that have more than 8 hours sleep a day is studied.
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WPS – What the …….
Got an unsolicited email from Serus Software Zolutions who are it seems a WPS reseller in Australia. As you maybe aware WPS provide a set of software that is positioned as being able to natively run SAS code, for a fraction of the license/renewal fees SAS charge. As you can imagine SAS haven’t been happy about […]
Gartner BI Magic Quadrant 2011 and SAS
I see Gartner have released the 2011 magic quadrant for 2011 on 27 Jan 2011. The opening paragraph states: “In 2010, business users had greater influence over BI buying, often choosing data discovery vendors as an alternative to traditional BI tools. But megavendors continued to hold the majority of BI market share, despite ongoing customer dissatisfaction, by selling […]
Implementing OLAP Member Level Security for All Vantage Points
In SAS 9.2, OLAP Member Level Security became that much easier to implement. From SAS Management Console, an administrator can navigate directly into the OLAP Cube Dimension, add a user, grant explicit ‘Read’ access and click a button to get a snazzy i…
The Bayes theorem, explained to an above-average squirrel
Editor’s Note: The following question was recently asked of our statistical training instructors. Terry Woodfield, along with Bob Lucas took the time to write this eloquent and easily digestible answer.
Question: I’m trying to get a general