Tag: SAS

Learning SAS

I want to learn the heavy-weight of Statistical softwares – SAS. It seems like the default choice for high-end statistics and I want to understand why.I’m working in the healthcare practice in our firm and want to analyze claims and credit data (Teraby…

Dive into CDISC Express (2): Create a New Study

Dive into CDISC Express (1): Introductory

3. Step 1 of 6: Create a new study (create_new_study.sas)
Open create_new_study.sas in C:\Program Files\CDISC Express\programs\, you can see only one line of a macro call:
%addnewstudy(studyname=my new study);

Just assign a study name to the macro variable, &studyname, e.g, “CLINCAP”:
%addnewstudy(studyname= CLINCAP);

Submit the codes, you can find a folder named “CLINCAP” with the […]

Dive into CDISC Express (1): Introductory

Recently I did for my personal project some research on Clinovo’s open source application, CDISC Express, a SAS application based on Excel framework designed to map clinical data to CDISC SDTM domains automatically. Not perfect yet, but it is easily understandable and practically usable after few hours’ of exploration of user guide. And most important, […]

Updated SAS Enterprise Guide Admin Paper

One of the papers I regularly recommended to administrators of SAS® Enterprise Guide was TS-788 What SAS® Administrators Should Know about Libraries, Metadata, and SAS® Enterprise Guide 4.1 (PDF), especially for its discussion of the AssignMode extended attribute. Thanks to a recent post by Chris Hemedinger on The SAS Dummy blog, I’ve discovered that there’s […]

NOTE: SYSTASK With An Unknown Number of Calls

In an earlier article (and the associated article on security) I extolled the virtues of SYSTASK for doing operating system activities in parallel. I gave an example that executed two gzip commands in parallel. But what would you do if you didn’t know …

NOTE: SYSTASK With An Unknown Number of Calls

In an earlier article (and the associated article on security) I extolled the virtues of SYSTASK for doing operating system activities in parallel. I gave an example that executed two gzip commands in parallel. But what would you do if you didn’t know …

NOTE: SYSTASK Is Great, If You’re Allowed To Use It! (XCMD)

In my previous posting I featured the SYSTASK statement as a great means of executing operating system commands in parallel. Statements such as SYSTASK and CALL SYSTEM allow any operating system command to be executed and so they can be dangerous …

NOTE: SYSTASK Is Great, If You’re Allowed To Use It! (XCMD)

In my previous posting I featured the SYSTASK statement as a great means of executing operating system commands in parallel. Statements such as SYSTASK and CALL SYSTEM allow any operating system command to be executed and so they can be dangerous …