Matt Shotwell’s new R package ‘sas7bdat’ is a great achievement to bridge SAS and R. Earlier this year Revolution R, a commercial competitor against SAS, launched a RxSasData() function to read SAS’s unique ‘sas7bdat’ data structure. Howe…
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sas7bdat reader ported to ActionScript
By Brian Kimball: http://code.google.com/p/sasquatch
Slides for Reproducible Research Talk at Interface 2011
I gave a talk at the Interface Symposium on reproducible research in practice. I went first in the session, so the slides have a bit more background and philosophy. It was a great session; one of Jon Claerbout’s colleagues spoke, Sergey Fomel, a founding author of Madagascar; Sorin Mitran from UNC Chapel Hill talked about […]
A SAS Implementation of Confidence Intervals for Single Proportion: Eleven Methods
The following two papers by Professor Robert Newcombe, in my limit observation, are the most frequently cited papers in the industry:
Two-sided confidence intervals for the single proportion: comparison of seven methods. Newcombe RG, Stat Med , Volume 17 , 8 (April 1998) pp.857-872
Interval estimation for the difference between […]
Learning SAS
I want to learn the heavy-weight of Statistical softwares – SAS. It seems like the default choice for high-end statistics and I want to understand why.I’m working in the healthcare practice in our firm and want to analyze claims and credit data (Teraby…
Learning SAS
I want to learn the heavy-weight of Statistical softwares – SAS. It seems like the default choice for high-end statistics and I want to understand why.I’m working in the healthcare practice in our firm and want to analyze claims and credit data (Teraby…
Learning SAS
I want to learn the heavy-weight of Statistical softwares – SAS. It seems like the default choice for high-end statistics and I want to understand why.I’m working in the healthcare practice in our firm and want to analyze claims and credit data (Teraby…
sas7bdat database reader update
An earlier post (1216) introduced a compatibility study (i.e. reverse engineering) of the sas7bdat database file format. The code and documentation for this are here: http://github.com/biostatmatt/sas7bdat. I’ve recently restructured the code as an R package, and added some functionality. Look for the sas7bdat package on the CRAN. Also, the read.sas7bdat code has been ported to […]