In example 8.6 we showed how to change the reference category. This is the natural first thought analysts have when their primary comparisons aren’t represented in the default output. But our interest might center on a number of comparisons which don…
SAS Macros to Search and Report Errors and Warnings from your SAS Logs
How many a times at work have you gone thru the logs looking for ERROR, WARNINGS, NOTES etc for more information about the generated problem?…I’ve been doing a lot like that lately for developing / debugging / lines of code for more information…I j…
World Statistics, FTW!
Yesterday, I was in the #raganSAS audience as David Pogue told me What’s New and What’s Next in the world of technology.
David is a great presenter, and he really had the audience engaged as he talked about augmented reality,
his world according…
Logics in mathematics and in daily life: a statistical programming example
Refresh some basic logical propositions (or statements):
implication: if P then Q (P—>Q)
inverse: if not P then not Q (-P—>-Q)
converse: if Q then P (Q—>P)
contrapositive: if not Q then not P (-Q—>-P)
contradition: if P then not Q (P—>-Q)
Mathematically or logically speaking, if the implication statement holds, then the contrapositive holds, but the inverse does not hold, […]
SAS Macros to Read data from MS Excel using DDE
Here are a set of SAS Macros to read data from MS Excel using DDE…
Let me explain with some scenarios with the Excel data stored in “C:\Names.xlsx” in worksheet named “Sheet1″…
This excel file has in fact data that can be read into 2…
Finally got my feet wet by jumping in a puddle
Finally got a chance to setup workspace pooling in SAS 9.1 and WRS 3.1. Followed the instructions I outlined in this post http://blog.saasinct.com/2010/09/28/speeding-up-web-report-studio-9-13-1-by-jumping-in-puddles/ Was simple enough to setup and get working, only trick was to remember to stop and restart the webserver so WRS/WRV could pick up the changes and switch over from load balanced to pooled. […]