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Delivers the Right Toys and Goodies to the Right Boys and Girls: Story of Santa and SAS
How to know the boys and girls’ real demands around the world? and how to predict their demands in next Christmas?
How to purchase toys and goodies with a balance of costs and profits? and how to deliver them more efficiently?
There are lots of questions in the list of Santa, CEO of Santa’s Workshop. SAS’s marketing […]
Haiku from SAS R&D staff
First prompts are silent.
Subsequent prompts loud and clear.
Now all prompts are heard.
Poem from R&D staff?
Yes. Rhyming sonnets were shakespeare-like complex;
they wrote Japanese haiku, showed as above.
The SAS R&D staff should complete some paper work in defects system before changing a code. They use informal descriptive language(HAIKUUU!) in the early stage. Chris Hemedinger, a senior software […]
SAS Macros for BUGS
Rodney Sparapani wrote some SAS macros for interfacing with BUGS. Here is a site with descriptions and links. See also “SAS now goes with Bayesian methods”.
SAS now goes with Bayesian methods
New versions of SAS (9.2) procedures GENMOD, LIFEREG, and PHREG enable users to use Bayesian approach for estimating model parameters. The computations are done with McMC methods. There is also a new experimental procedure MCMC. See more here. I wonder…
PROC MIXED vs. lmer()
I am using R for a few years now. I like it a lot. Previously I used SAS (notably its modules SAS/BASE, SAS/STAT, SAS/IML, …), because that is the statistical package of choice at my department. I had a hard time when I switched to R, mainly because …