Who doesn’t like bargains? I’m sure you will all agree that good quality at a next-to-nothing cost is irresistible. My recent Dollarama run had me ecstatic about the gloves that come in all colours, styles and sizes for just over a dollar. (F…
That’s the LAST Time I Hit Snooze On My Alarm Clock
Hello, SAS-ites everywhere! Allow me to be the first to wish you a very happy 2011… wait, you say that would’ve been appropriate a month ago? Where the heck was I, you ask? Now settle down, no need to get all worked up! The holiday season is a time f…
Example 8.22: latent class modeling using randomLCA
In Example 8.21 we described how to fit a latent class model to data from the HELP dataset using SAS and R. Subjects were classified based on their observed (manifest) status on the following variables (on street or in shelter in past 180 days [homele…
NOTE: Booked and Ready for SGF (SAS Global Forum)
My SAS Global Forum (SGF) paper proposal has been accepted by the conference organisers and is scheduled for 5:40pm on Wednesday April 6th. You can see further details in the conference agenda builder (warning: big page, slow to load).
My pa…
NOTE: SAS Success
For the second year in a row, SAS has been judged as Best Company To Work For by Fortune. In fact it’s the 14th year in a row that SAS has been included in Fortune’s top 100 companies to work for.
If you are a SAS employee you’ll be pleased; but if yo…
Resetting File Permissions in Windows Server 2008 R2
Today I needed to reset the permissions for a bunch of files in a directory on a SAS server (running Windows Server 2008 R2) so that they reverted back to the inherited permissions from the directory they were contained in (they currently had non-inherited explicit permissions for a particular user). There were too many to […]