Sometimes, you just need a little help adjusting to change. We introduced a lot of change when we updated support.sas.com in October of 2007. Then, the Publications Division brought out the SAS 9.2 documentation in the spring of 2008. More change….
SAS Macros for BUGS
Rodney Sparapani wrote some SAS macros for interfacing with BUGS. Here is a site with descriptions and links. See also “SAS now goes with Bayesian methods”.
Things You Find in the Newspaper
Do you still have the newspaper delivered to your house? I do. It is part of our morning routine. It dominates our weekend mornings. We sit together at the kitchen table with our coffee and our favorite section of the paper. I get the home an…
Keeping Up with ZIP Codes Changes
Today was site maintenance day for me. There were several pages that I needed to update. I have to be careful when I start working on these pages because I see a shiny thread and I follow it. Before I know it, it’s lunch time and I’ve been read…
SAS now goes with Bayesian methods
New versions of SAS (9.2) procedures GENMOD, LIFEREG, and PHREG enable users to use Bayesian approach for estimating model parameters. The computations are done with McMC methods. There is also a new experimental procedure MCMC. See more here. I wonder…
Numbers and Magic Tricks
I was in a conference room waiting for a meeting to start the other day. Several people in the room were talking about an interesting numbers trick that Clarke Thacher had posted to his internal blog. All agreed that others might be intrigued by…