Tag: Tech

Jobs: Stored processes in Viya

Stored processes were a very popular feature in SAS 9.4. They were used in reporting, analytics and web application development. In Viya, the equivalent feature is jobs. Using jobs the same way as stored processes was enhanced in Viya 3.5. In addition, there is preliminary support for promoting 9.4 stored processes to Viya. In this post, I will examine what is sure to be a popular feature for SAS 9.4 users starting out with Viya.

Jobs: Stored processes in Viya was published on SAS Users.

Propensity Score Estimation with PROC PSMATCH and PROC LOGISTIC

Do you wish you could predict the likelihood that one of your customers will open your marketing email? Or what if you could tell whether a new medical treatment for a patient will have a better outcome than the standard treatment? If you are familiar with propensity modeling, then you […]

Propensity Score Estimation with PROC PSMATCH and PROC LOGISTIC was published on SAS Users.

Test your SAS skills with the newest edition of Exercises and Projects for The Little SAS Book

In case you missed the news, there is a new edition of The Little SAS Book! Last fall, we completed the sixth edition of our book, and even though it is actually a few pages shorter than the fifth edition, we managed to add many more topics to the book. […]

Test your SAS skills with the newest edition of Exercises and Projects for The Little SAS Book was published on SAS Users.

Learn to Love SAS LIKE

In honor of Valentine’s day, we thought it would be fitting to present an excerpt from a paper about the LIKE operator because when you like something a lot, it may lead to love! If you want more, you can read the full paper “Like, Learn to Love SAS® Like” […]

Learn to Love SAS LIKE was published on SAS Users.

Experience SAS Global Forum: A First-Timer’s View & Tip Sheet

If you’re a SAS user, you know that SAS Global Forum is where you want to be! It’s our premier, can’t-miss event for SAS professionals—that includes thousands of users, executives, partners and academics. It’s also our largest users’ event, organized by users, for users, and this year’s event marks our […]

Experience SAS Global Forum: A First-Timer’s View & Tip Sheet was published on SAS Users.

Finding Possible Data Errors Using the %Auto_Outliers Macro

One of the first and most important steps in analyzing data, whether for descriptive or inferential statistical tasks, is to check for possible errors in your data. In my book, Cody’s Data Cleaning Techniques Using SAS, Third Edition, I describe a macro called %Auto_Outliers. This macro allows you to search […]

Finding Possible Data Errors Using the %Auto_Outliers Macro was published on SAS Users.