Paul posted a blog today “Farewell to the SAS 9.2 Replication Wizard” which outlined the fact SAS have announced that the replication capbility in SAS 9.2 is no longer supported. (Usage Note 40834: The Replication Wizard in SAS® 9.2 has been deprecated) Paul mentions it was probably lack of use that caused SAS to stop […]
Farewell to the SAS 9.2 Replication Wizard
It looks like the SAS® 9.2 Replication Wizard has recently been deprecated. I spotted a new SAS usage note about it the other day: Usage Note 40834: The Replication Wizard in SAS® 9.2 has been deprecated. The Replication Wizard is, or perhaps I should now say was, a feature available in the SAS 9.2 Management […]
SAS 9.1, Windows 2003, I/O and 32 bit limitations
Over the lastest year or two we have had ongoing issues running SAS 9.1 on 32 bit windows. Main two issues that constantly arise are: Metadata server exceeding addressable memory in 32 bit windows and crashing I/O errors intermittently reading/writing SAS datasets We have tried all the SAS “support” tools to reduce the size of our metadata […]
New Targeted Admin Courses from SAS
Checking my inbox today I saw an email from SAS Education with new course dates for 2010/2011. What really caught my eye was the addition of these new short (1-2 day) targeted admin courses: SAS Enterprise Guide: Administration SAS OLAP Environment: Administration SAS Enterprise Miner: Administration It’s great to see more admin training available from […]
Example 8.7: Hosmer and Lemeshow goodness-of-fit
The Hosmer and Lemeshow goodness of fit (GOF) test is a way to assess whether there is evidence for lack of fit in a logistic regression model. Simply put, the test compares the expected and observed number of events in bins defined by the predicted p…
Keys to good macro design
On the final day of SESUG 2010, I only had time to attend one presentation. I chose Frank DiIorio’s %whatChanged: A Tool for the Well-Behaved Macro for two reasons: 1.) Papers about macros are big hits with SAS Tech Report readers and 2.) DiIori…