Whenever you try to open a SAS data set which has permanent formats, you will get the error message in the log file saying
“ERROR: The format XXXX was not found or could not be loaded.”
This happens generally when you don’t have the format …
SaviDataSet Alpha 1.0 On the Web
I am finally ready with my SAS dataset reader/writer for .NET. It is written in 100% managed code using .NET 3.5. The dlls can be foundhere.A sample .NET console application can be found in the program file entries after the installation.Update 2/13/20…
How to check how the dataset got sorted without looking at the code?
You can do this manually or programmatically.
Manual Approach: Right click on the data set in the explorer and go to properties, then go to the details tab and see the sorted by values (Works only if you use Windows operating system) Programmatic …
SAS implementation of Kernel PCA
Kernel method is a very useful technique in data mining that is applicable to any algorithms relying on inner product [1]. The key is applying appropriate kernel function to the inner product of original data space.
I show here SAS/STAT+BASE ex…
Partial Least Square
In some predictive modelling projects, we may have variables that most of the observations have the same value, while the small percentage rest ones are populated with meaningful values. For example, 90% observations have values=0 but the rest 10% ha…
Advice to a New SAS Programmer
I saw an interesting question posted to Twitter by @sastips. She asked experienced SAS programmers what advice they would give to new or junior SAS programmers. New user advice is always needed. On support.sas.com, we are frequently asked for ad…