Hi all. Just a quick note to point out a recent certification discussion on the SAS Training Facebook page. If you haven’t become a fan of SAS Training, maybe now is the time? It’s yet another great community to chat with your fellow SAS users and…
Quebec City Analytics Forum: What A Launch!
I’m sitting here at Lesage airport in beautiful Quebec City, as Lady Gaga’s ‘Pokerface’ – the Muzak version – wafts gently out of the Duty Free store. And as I look around, I see a few others with raised eyebrows as they recognize the tune and the STRA…
Multi-study research on Bovine respiratory disease
Situation:The purpose of this research was to (1) to explore a recent multi-study approach (Arends, et al. 2008) in combining observational survival data instead of traditional meta-analysis, and (2) to develop multivariate random-effects models with o…
Using Proc Glmselect in SAS Shootout@ 2010
Business understanding: A Healthcare company would like to know how the health status and personal information of a patient would influence his/her total health care expense.Data understanding: The target variable is the total health cost (interval). B…
Example 8.6: Changing the reference category for categorical variables
How can we change the reference category for a categorical variable? This question comes up often in a consulting practice.When including categorical covariates in regression models, there is a question of how to incorporate the categories. One simpl…
Goodbye, Summer!
Well, SAS Users, I continue to recover from what can only be described as a roller-coaster of a week! 2 major user group meetings, a SAS-sponsored charity soccer tournament and a wedding: all in the span of 6 days.The Toronto Management Exchange meetin…