This blog serves two purposes: the main purpose is to show you some useful SAS coding techniques, and the second is to show you an interesting method of creating a Beale cipher. TJ Beale is famous in Virginia for leaving behind three ciphers, supposedly describing the location of hidden gold […]
Fun with Ciphers (Part 1) was published on SAS Users.
Let’s take a look at the design and implementation of SAS functions in financial calculations. We’ll do this through examples calculating and analyzing the monthly payment, interest, and principal for CPM/CAM mortgages.
SAS financial functions review and mortgage payment analysis was published on SAS Users.
Let’s take a look at the design and implementation of SAS functions in financial calculations. We’ll do this through examples calculating and analyzing the monthly payment, interest, and principal for CPM/CAM mortgages.
SAS financial functions review and mortgage payment analysis was published on SAS Users.
In the past, the COMPRESS function was useful. Since SAS version 9, it has become a blockbuster, and you might not have noticed. The major change was the addition of a new optional parameter called MODIFIERS. The traditional use of the COMPRESS function was to remove blanks or a list […]
The Amazing COMPRESS Function was published on SAS Users.
SAS’ Leonid Batkhan explains the data cleansing task of removing unwanted repeated characters in SAS character variables.
Removing repeated characters in SAS strings was published on SAS Users.
SAS’ Leonid Batkhan summarizes a lesser known but useful feature in SAS that allows you to bring Microsoft Excel functions into your SAS programs.
Using Microsoft Excel functions in SAS was published on SAS Users.
Sir Tim Berners-Lee is famous for inventing the World Wide Web and for the construction of URLs — a piece of syntax that every 8-year-old is now familiar with. According to the lore, when Sir Tim invented URLs he did not imagine that Internet surfers of all ages and backgrounds […]
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In his recent article Perceptions of probability, Rick Wicklin explores how vague statements about “likeliness” translate into probabilities that we can express numerically. It’s a fun, informative post — I recommend it! You’ll “Almost Certainly” enjoy it. To prepare the article, Rick first had to download the source data from […]
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