Tag: SAS

SAS Certification on a Budget

I recently returned from SAS Global Forum where Andra Northup and I presented an updated and expanded version of our paper “SAS Certification as a Tool for Professional Development.”  You can read our paper here. SAS certification isn’t exactly new.  The first SAS certification exam was offered way back in 1999.  So it’s fascinating to […]

SAS Certification on a Budget

I recently returned from SAS Global Forum where Andra Northup and I presented an updated and expanded version of our paper “SAS Certification as a Tool for Professional Development.”  You can read our paper here. SAS certification has been around for a while.  The first SAS certification exam was offered way back in 1999.  So […]

Confidence Intervals for Binomial Proportion (Again): A Quick Note

In Lex’s library of the latest SAS Global Forum 2015 papers, I found an interesting paper by Wu Gong, Jeffreys Interval for One-Sample Proportion with SAS/STAT Software, where SAS MCMC procedure and a so called Random Walk Metropolis Algorithm were implemented to calculate the Jeffreys interval for binomial proportion. Years ago I wrote several posts […]

It’s Analytics Survey Time!

Every other year Rexer Analytics surveys Data Analysts, Predictive Modelers, Data Scientists, Data Miners, and all other types of analytic professionals, students, and academics regarding the software they use.  I then update the main results in The Popularity of Data Analysis … Continue reading

List Manipulations Made Easy (and little bit of UGLY): the New DOSUBL Function

Typically, SAS list manipulations needs bunch of SAS I/O functions which are not necessarily well known to all SAS programmers. The new DOSUBL function makes this technique much more easier and little bit of ugly I must admit: %MACRO ExpandVarList(data=_LAST_, var=_ALL_);     %if %upcase(%superq(data)) = _LAST_     %then %let data = &SYSLAST;     %let rc […]