Installing SAS 9.2 TS2M3 on four computers running two operating systems took six days and one tracking number. Not bad, not bad at all considering my experiences with other recent releases. When Enterprise Guide 4.3 was released at the end of August, I was eager to try out the new features for programmers. The only […]
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Attention all SAS Bloggers: R Blogger has a question for you
Fellow blogger Tal Galili contacted me to share a project of his: http://www.r-bloggers.com.
R-Bloggers.com is a central hub (e.g: A blog aggregator) of content collected from bloggers who write about R (in English). The site will help R blogg…
NOTE: Just 3 Days to Submit Your SGF 2011 Paper!
I just finished fettling my SAS Global Forum 2011 paper submission and I have submitted it. My fingers are crossed.
The deadline for papers is Monday October 25th. Have you submitted yours yet?
I forgot all about World Statistics Day
Did any of you SAS folks know that yesterday, Oct 20, 2010, was World Statistics Day (WSD)? I missed it!
Why a World Statistics Day?
“…to raise awareness of the many achievements of official statistics premised on the core values of serv…
SAS Algorithmically(1): Newton-Raphson method
A good reference for the basic algorithms of Newton-Raphson method to calculate the square root of a number, see
http://mathforum.org/library/drmath/view/52644.html
And the SAS codes(self-explanatory):
data root; /*question: find the square root of 4*/ x=4;
/*first choose a rough approximation of […]
YASB Yet Another SAS Blog to check out
AFHood Analytics Group has a blog with a SAS category that’s worth tuning into. I know nothing about who they are, but if they blog about SAS, they must be cool cats.
NOTE: What is PROC SORTT?
My friend and ex-colleague CB drew my attention to an intriguing thread on SAS-L recently. It asked “What is PROC SORTT” and drew a response from Paul Kent
At times we’ve issued “the same proc with a new name” as a way of allowing us to get feedb…
NOTE: More on sorting and SQL
Further to my recent post on telling SAS that your data is pre-sorted, it’s worth mentioning the SORTVALIDATE system option. This yes/no option tells SAS whether the SORT procedure should verify if a data set is sorted according to the variab…