Tag: SAS

Confidence Intervals for Difference Between Independent Binomial Proportions: A SAS 9.4/STAT 12.3 Update

For the computing of confidence intervals for difference between two independent binomial proportions in SAS 9.4/STAT 12.3, it’s hard to figure out exactly how many methods are available because there is no “CL=ALL” trigger in RISKDIFF option (but you can get one in BIONOMIAL option to compute the confidence intervals for binomial proportion). As far […]

Everything You Need to Know about Your SAS Session and No More…

You will get rich information for your SAS session(definitely more than you need) by submitting: %put _all_; *all system macro variables; proc setinit; *all licensed software; run; proc options; *options; run; proc javainfo;  *Java infor; run; proc registry list; *registry; run;

Confidence Intervals for Binomial Proportion: A SAS 9.4/STAT 12.3 Update

After getting the access to SAS 9.4 alone with SAS/STAT 12.3, I first took a look at my favorite SAS statistical procedure, PROF FREQ.  Last year I had a note on confidence intervals for binomial proportion based on SAS 9.2/SAS9.3. Now it’s time to throw out some updates. 1. A new confidence limits method added, […]

SAS Stratified Random Sample

There are many ways to take a stratified random sample (SRS), but we find the it doesn’t always come out as expected. That was until we started using some examples we found in a paper by Diana Suhr. This is a great example of sampling with various numbers of strata. Example #1 PROC FREQ DATA […]

Get free disk space in SAS on Windows

This SAS macro retrieves the amount of free disk space, and puts the value in the SAS log and in a global macro variable. It works with local and remote drives and mapped and UNC paths. To avoid data loss, use it as a sanity check to verify there is …

Taming SAS Stored Process Selection List Prompts

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I like most things SAS.  But there are of course some features that I wish were implemented differently.  One of those is selection list prompts.  The good news is, even when SAS implements something in a way that I find, well let’s say, surprising, there is often a way to …

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Trends in the Analytics Job Market

Tracking the job market for statistics, analytics, data mining and the like used to be a major undertaking. However, on November 10, 2011 the world’s largest web site for job postings, Indeed.com, released a tool that allows you to examine trends … Continue reading