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CAS-Action! Grouping Frequency Tables – Part 3

Welcome back to my SAS Users blog series CAS Action! – a series on fundamentals. In my previous part 1 and part 2 posts I reviewed how to use the simple.freq CAS action to generate frequency distributions for one or more columns and how to save the results. In this post I […]

CAS-Action! Grouping Frequency Tables – Part 3 was published on SAS Users.

Using SAS to score a test

If you have ever needed to score a multiple-choice test, this blog is for you. Even if you are not planning to score a test, the techniques used in this example are useful for many other programming tasks. The example I am going to present assumes the answer key and […]

Using SAS to score a test was published on SAS Users.

CAS-Action! Saving Frequency Tables – Part 2

Welcome back to my SAS Users blog series CAS Action! – a series on fundamentals. In my previous post CAS-Action! Simple Frequency Tables – Part 1, I reviewed how to use the simple.freq CAS action to generate frequency distributions for one or more columns using the distributed CAS server. In this post […]

CAS-Action! Saving Frequency Tables – Part 2 was published on SAS Users.

CAS-Action! Simple Frequency Tables – Part 1

Welcome back to my SAS Users blog series CAS Action! – a series on fundamentals. If you’d like to start by learning more about the distributed CAS server and CAS actions, please see CAS Actions and Action Sets – a brief intro. Otherwise, let’s learn how to generate frequency distributions for one […]

CAS-Action! Simple Frequency Tables – Part 1 was published on SAS Users.

CAS-Action! Rename Columns in a CAS Table

Welcome back to my SAS Users blog series CAS Action! – a series on fundamentals. If you’d like to start by learning more about the distributed CAS server and CAS actions, please see CAS Actions and Action Sets – a brief intro. Otherwise, let’s learn how to rename columns in CAS tables. […]

CAS-Action! Rename Columns in a CAS Table was published on SAS Users.

Unexpected results from missing values with PROC SQL

SAS SQL handles missing values differently than the ANSI standard for SQL. PROC SQL follows the SAS convention for handling missing values: numerical missing values are always interpreted as less or smaller than all nonmissing values. My first blog showed that missing values can be troublemakers in non-grouped descriptive statistics. […]

Unexpected results from missing values with PROC SQL was published on SAS Users.