Tag: SAS

NOTE: What Am I Reading?

We all try to write data-driven code, or code that provides some degree of flexibility regarding its input data. We see these approaches as reducing maintenance and making the code more robust. There are a number of features in the SAS language that al…

Statistical Notes (4): Dragon’s Teeth and Fleas: Hypothesis Testing in Plain English

Statisticians aren’t the problem for data science. The real problem is too many posers — Cathy O’Neil you actually do need to understand how to invert a matrix at some point in your life if you want to be a data scientist. — Cathy O’Neil I was asked in several different occasions to explain hypothesis […]

Statistical Notes (3): Confidence Intervals for Binomial Proportion Using SAS

A guy notices a bunch of targets scattered over a barn wall, and in the center of each, in the "bulls-eye," is a bullet hole. "Wow," he says to the farmer, "that’s pretty good shooting. How’d you do it?" "Oh," says the farmer, "it was easy. I painted the targets after I shot the holes." […]

Statistical Notes (2): Equivalence Testing and TOST (Two One-Sided Test)

Programmers Need to Learn Statistics Or I will Kill Them All –Zed A. Shaw In an equivalence testing example against lognormal data,  a TOST (Two One-Sided Test)  option used in SAS TTEST procedure: proc ttest data=auc dist=lognormal tost(0.8, 1.25);    paired TestAUC*RefAUC; run; And the output: Since the 90% (who not 95%? see below) limit of […]

Statistical Notes (1): Geometric Mean and Geometric Mean Ratio

Programmers Need to Learn Statistics Or I will Kill Them All –Zed A. Shaw Just read since SAS 9.2, the TTEST procedure also natively supports Equivalence Test by simply adding a TOST option (Two one-sided tests). In a example, TTEST procedure reports a geometric mean as 0.9412, which is the geometric mean of a ratio, […]

NOTE: New Ways in Means

There aren’t many SAS programmers who haven’t used PROC MEANS (or its alter ego PROC SUMMARY) to aggregate (summarise) their data. PROC MEANS is a familiar tool for most SAS programmers, and the process of subsequently selecting specific values of _TYP…

NOTE: True Self-Service BI With Futrix

Over the last couple of weeks I’ve featured a couple of 3rd-party SAS-related products (Metacoda security plug-ins and Phil Holland’s Ebook/apps). I’ve said how much I support 3rd-party products. So, I couldn’t let this unintentional mini-series end …

NOTE: Celebrates Its Third Birthday

It seems a lot longer, yet today is just NOTE:’s 3rd birthday*. In that time we’ve published over 300 posts and received over 80,000 page views.

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