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Should Accountants Be Required to Code
Sometimes, I wonder where I fit on the career spectrum. I am trained as a CPA and 90% of my daily work involves accounting in some form. However, I am also a programmer who geeks out when I find a new way to automate processes or transform data into knowledge. My boss made a comment […]
NOTE: Peek At Your Data Details Before Opening (in EG)
I spotted a nice post from Chris on the SAS Dummy blog. Enterprise Guide 4.2 saw the introduction of a feature that allows you to view the details of your data sets (such as the data set labels, how many records the data sets contain, and more) while y…
SAS Metadata Backup on Windows 2008 R2
I was trying to run a manual SAS Metadata Server backup (OMABAKUP) on Windows 2008 R2 64 bit today. It failed! I run metadata backups many many times so I was sure all the normal prerequisites were in place but this was the first time I had run one on Windows 2008 R2 64 bit […]
NOTE: I’ve won a prize!!
I’ve just been informed that I am one of the winners from day #1 of the SAS Professionals advent calendar. I’ve won a copy of the book Scoring Points! The book tells how two of the UK’s biggest SAS customers (Tesco supermarkets and Dunnhumby customer i…
Weekday Morning Quick-trick: How to Score from PROC VARCLUS
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…
Randomly Generating a Truncated Normal Distribution
A brief foray into the actual nitty-gritty aspects of research, especially the part that seems to dominate the time of a graduate student in Epidemiology: coding. Particularly, the code for generating random numbers from a truncated normal distribution in SAS 9.2. Generating numbers from a regular normal distribution is easy as pie: x=rannor(seed), where x […]
What can I use SAS for?
According to my site stats someone found this site yesterday by searching for the phrase “what can i use sas for?’ I’m flattered. And I hope they found the answer to their question. Though to be honest, I doubt that anything I have previously written addressed the use of SAS in such broad terms. So […]