The question came up on the SAS Enterprise Guide discussion forum: which do you prefer, List Report Wizard (PROC REPORT) or Summary Tables (PROC TABULATE)?
And as with most SAS-related questions, the proper response is: “it depends.” If you put …
NOTE: Just 3 Days to Submit Your SGF 2011 Paper!
I just finished fettling my SAS Global Forum 2011 paper submission and I have submitted it. My fingers are crossed.
The deadline for papers is Monday October 25th. Have you submitted yours yet?
Demystifying how text analytics can detect cyberbullying
Facebook now uses technology to help detect instances of cyberbullying before it gets out of hand. I heard this report on CNN last week, and the Facebook spokesman described their detection techniques as “background technology that I can’t really…
Stand & Be Counted: Data Miners Weigh In On the Long-Form Census Debate
I had high hopes for the Data Mining Forum on Wednesday, and I wasn’t disappointed. I was absolutely fascinated by Stephane McGee and Obaid Rahman’s presentation on how statistics are used in the insurance industry: incredibly appropriate fare for Worl…
I forgot all about World Statistics Day
Did any of you SAS folks know that yesterday, Oct 20, 2010, was World Statistics Day (WSD)? I missed it!
Why a World Statistics Day?
“…to raise awareness of the many achievements of official statistics premised on the core values of serv…
SAS Algorithmically(1): Newton-Raphson method
A good reference for the basic algorithms of Newton-Raphson method to calculate the square root of a number, see
http://mathforum.org/library/drmath/view/52644.html
And the SAS codes(self-explanatory):
data root; /*question: find the square root of 4*/ x=4;
/*first choose a rough approximation of […]