As Chris Hemedinger has written in several of his blog posts, SAS Enterprise Guide 4.3 has many more formatting options. I particularily enjoyed the ‘CTRL-i’ option to reformat SAS code with indents and carriage returns to make my programs even more re…
SAS logs in Enterprise Guide: Where’s the beef?
You might be too young to remember Clara Peller. She was the star of a series of fast-food burger commercials in the 1980s, in which she demanded meatier meals by shouting “Where’s the beef?” at the pickup counter or drive-through window. Alas, …
Trapezoidal Rule
TAD (Time Average Difference) is area under the curve (AUC).Trapezoidal RuleUsing Trapezoidal Rule for the Area Under a Curve CalculationEstimate the Area Under a ROC CurveSAS Calculations of AUC for Multiple Metabolic ReadingsSAS Macro to Calculate AU…
Flashback: My relationship with SAS was inevitable
Some of you folks that work for SAS may find this amusing. I’ve been in my current job since I finished University in 2001. In about 2005 I began using SAS and was well on my way to becoming the SAS fanatic I am today.Rewind to the year 200…
Five reasons to use the SAS DATA Step or PROC SQL
When I joined SAS Institute I had no knowledge of SAS. I studied, researched and practiced. The questions I asked would make even the most seasoned programmer blush a beetroot red! Those were an intense nine months—I’ll tell you more in a lat…
Updated SAS Admin Docs (inc Portal Promotion)
I noticed that several of the SAS® platform administration documents have been updated recently following the release of the 4.3 versions of SAS Enterprise Guide and the various mid-tier web apps (SAS Information Delivery Portal, SAS Web Report Studio, SAS BI Dashboard etc.). The updated documents include: SAS® 9.2 Intelligence Platform System Administration Guide, Second […]