Have you used multivariate procedures in SAS and wanted to save out scores? Some procedures, such as FACTOR, CANDISC, CANCORR, PRINCOMP, and others have an OUT= option to save scores to the input data set. However, to score a new data set, or to p…
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To INDEX or not to INDEX…
Recently, a certification candidate asked me about indexes and how SAS decides whether to use one or not. I don’t work with supper-large data sets and therefore haven’t been overly concerned with efficient coding techniques and consequen…
Short on time, but need to learn?
Those of you who have anxiously been awaiting the next installments in my “What is there to do in Cary?” series may have noticed a distinct lack of output over the last month or so. This is due to the fact that I have been forced to spend my tim…
Zero to SAS Certified Base Programmer in 3 months (Part II)
A few days after I posted part 1 of this blog post,an interesting message popped up on Twitter from @annmariastat:
Confused. If you can get #SAS certification in 3 months what exactly are you being certified as? How much can anyone learn in 3 mo…
Understand the Work
At the end of my first blog, I said I would explain more about those literature analyzing skills and what all that literature stuff has to do with SAS. I showed my “skills list” and discussed how learning to write a SAS program could be com…
Zero to SAS Certified Base Programmer in 3 months (Part 1)
I’m happy to report that I have achieved my SAS Certified Base Programmer credential. w00t!. I took my first SAS programming course on March 10th and passed my exam on June 18th (so I guess a more accurate title would say 3 months and 8 days!).
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Literature and SAS: Or, How studying Melville has made me a better SAS user
I think this blog would be so much more literate, if I started it with a classic opening line, like “Call me Ishmael” or “riverrun, past Eve and Adams”. Those are the opening lines of Melville’s Moby-Dick and Joyce’s Finnegans Wake, re…