Hello! I hope you had a chance to read about e-Learning in last week’s blog. For those of you who want to see and try e-Learning, please come visit me at the e-Learning booth at SAS Global Forum in Orlando. In the weeks to come I will tell you mo…
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Implement BY processing for your entire SAS program
Most SAS procedures support the BY statement, which allows you to create a report or analysis for each distinct value of a variable in your data set. The syntax is simple, and SAS procedures are usually tuned to do a good job of processing the data efficiently. However, the BY […]
Why is there only one subject in my mixed model?
This morning I had to send my watch off to Switzerland to have its guts replaced. I will be late to everything for the next two weeks. So it was timely that when I got to work, my inbox had the following question from a former student in the Mixed Mod…
SAS Office Analytics – my own personal “easy button”
Before new courses are presented to the public, we have internal ‘test teaches’ giving SAS employees the opportunity to attend new courses and give feedback to the course developers on how to make the course top quality for our customers. A few w…
Stop recreating the wheel, save those common joins into a permanent view
When you are constantly taking the data tables and completing joins to begin working on your reports or analysis it might be time to consider creating permanent views. Then you can just add the view to the Enterprise Guide project rather than dealing w…
How many observations were processed by that last step?
A well-formed WHERE statement or subsetting IF can narrow down the output of your SAS DATA step. The SAS log does a good job of telling you how many records were processed by the action. For example, let’s look at this simple DATA step with my “poor man’s random sample”, […]
Get SAS certified at SAS Global Forum 2012
SAS Global Forum 2012 is fast approaching and attendees want to make sure they make the most of their time away from their job. In addition to the opportunity to network with thousands of SAS professionals, attend hands-on workshops and demonstrations …
Why code when %_eg_WhereParam does the work for you?
After unwittingly getting involved recently in a code vs GUI discussion another pro GUI vote came in yesterday when presenting to a customer’s internal user group. When creating and using prompts in SAS Enterprise Guide, it is a no-brainer to recommend…