The RANK procedure (PROC RANK) is useful for ranking numeric variables in a data set across observations. You often see PROC RANK used to rank data into quartiles, deciles, or percentiles. This action requires that you use the GROUPS= option in the PROC RANK statement. This blog answers three questions […]
How the RANK procedure calculates ranks with groups and ties was published on SAS Users.
Have you ever tried to pass comma-delimited values to SAS macro or to a SAS macro function? How can SAS distinguish commas separating parameters or arguments from commas separating parts of the values? Passing comma-delimited value as an argument to a SAS macro function Let’s say you want to extract […]
Passing comma-delimited values into SAS macros and macro functions was published on SAS Users.
With all the excitement around SAS’ new software architecture, SAS Viya, we often get asked the question: What is it and how can it help my company conquer our analytics challenges? Fortunately, learning more about SAS Viya has never been easier. SAS Viya extends the SAS® Platform and provides reliable, […]
Curious about SAS® Viya®? Discover two new free SAS Press e-books! was published on SAS Users.
Are you a seasoned data scientist looking for a fast, all-inclusive machine learning solution? Curious about machine learning but have little to no programming experience? Interested in using AI to take over the world? Follow my lead and use SAS VDDML to fast track your world domination. This blog is […]
Visual machine learning using SAS Viya: a Graduate Intern’s perspective was published on SAS Users.
Posted on behalf of SAS Press author Derek Morgan. I was sitting in a model railroad club meeting when one of our more enthusiastic young members said, “Wouldn’t it be cool if we could make a computer simulation, with trains going between stations and all. We could have cars and […]
SAS Press Author Derek Morgan on Timetables and Model Trains was published on SAS Users.
One of my favorite parts of summer is a relaxing weekend by the pool. Summer is the time I get to finally catch up on my reading list, which has been building over the year. So, if expanding your knowledge is a goal of yours this summer, SAS Press has […]
Summer reading – Book recommendations from SAS Press authors was published on SAS Users.