Posts Tagged ‘ simulation ’

sciseekclaimtoken-4f343317d3d60 I ran across this post at The Tree of Life entitled ‘Interesting new metagenomics paper w/ one big big big caveat – critical software not available”. The long and short of it? Paper appears in Science, has fancy new methodology, lacks the software for someone else to use their methodology. Blog author understandably annoyed. But...
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This seems like as good a day as any to review CrossValidated, and the whole StackExchange constellation of websites. It’s been a month since I joined, exactly, and today I also crossed the 1,000 reputation threshold on the site. So why not give my impressions of it? First, how I got there in the...
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One of the things that frequently comes up in my research is the need to estimate a parameter from data, and then randomly draw samples from that parameter’s distribution to plug into another model. If you have a regular estimate from something like PROC LOGISTIC or PROC GENMOD, this is easy as pie, as...
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The very truth is that SAS has limited financial functions. Thanks to SAS Institute, they finally added some option pricing functions in the base module of SAS 9.2, such as Black-Scholes put/call functions, Garman-Kohlhagen put/call functions, etc. Thu...
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How many functions SAS has? Well, it sounds like a job interview question. For SAS 9.2, by querying the system dictionary (sashelp.vfunc or dictionary.functions), the exact answer is 946, including all functions and call routines. There are two types -...
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