Tag: SAS

Slides for Reproducible Research Talk at Interface 2011

I gave a talk at the Interface Symposium on reproducible research in practice. I went first in the session, so the slides have a bit more background and philosophy. It was a great session; one of Jon Claerbout’s colleagues spoke, Sergey Fomel, a founding author of Madagascar; Sorin Mitran from UNC Chapel Hill talked about […]

Retrieve blogs using SAS

Recently I posted a frequency analysis on Rick Wicklin’s popular SAS/IML blog. Sanjay Matange also produced a nice heatmap on Rick’s blogging history using the summary data I published. Here just release the ideas and SAS codes to get data from Rick’s blog dynamically. You may modify the codes slightly to obtain data from all […]

SAS Bloggers In Action(1): Rick Wicklin, SAS/IML and “Color Revolution”

It is well known that the French writer, author of The Three Musketeer, Alexandre Dumas, wrote his master piece of work in different colored papers according to literary genre:
non-fiction on  rose,
fiction on blue,
poetry on yellow

The SAS blog writer, author of Statistical Programming with SAS/IML Software, Rick Wicklin of SAS Institute,  also leads a strong “color […]

SAS Restricted Options on UNIX

In a tweet by Gordon Cox last month, I was reminded of the restricted options facility available with SAS® software on UNIX platforms. This is capability where an administrator can set mandatory SAS system options at multiple levels of granularity: globally, per-group, and/or per-user. The reason for this post is that I don’t look at […]

A SAS Implementation of Confidence Intervals for Single Proportion: Eleven Methods

The following two papers by Professor Robert Newcombe, in my limit observation, are the most frequently cited papers in the industry:

Two-sided confidence intervals for the single proportion: comparison of seven methods. Newcombe RG, Stat Med , Volume 17 , 8 (April 1998) pp.857-872
Interval estimation for the difference between […]

NOTE: "Big" SAS 9.3 is Officially Released

SAS’s web site is now making copious references to SAS 9.3, and yesterday’s press release seems to be bigging-up SAS’s “big data” capabilities. At a more technical and detailed level, there’s a good summary of changes in the Support site, and a compreh…

NOTE: "Big" SAS 9.3 is Officially Released

SAS’s web site is now making copious references to SAS 9.3, and yesterday’s press release seems to be bigging-up SAS’s “big data” capabilities. At a more technical and detailed level, there’s a good summary of changes in the Support site, and a compreh…