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Traffic lighting of numeric variables by SAS or VBA

Charlie H — Fri, 25 May 2012 22:24:00 +0000

“Traffic lighting” applies distinctive colors to any numeric variables to indicate the ranges, which is particularly important for Excel reporting. In SAS, it can be easily realized by a user defined format. For example, if I want to add yellow ...

Stochastic Gradient Decending Logistic Regression in SAS

Liang Xie — Thu, 24 May 2012 12:19:00 +0000

Test the Stochastic Gradient Decending Logistic Regression in SAS. The logic and code follows the code piece of Ravi Varadhan, Ph.D from this discussion of R Help. The blog SAS Die Hard also has a post about SGD Logistic Regression in SAS. filen...

Favourite Papers from SAS Global Forum 2012

Paul Homes — Thu, 24 May 2012 09:26:17 +0000

These are some of my favourite papers from SAS Global Forum 2012 last month. I didn’t to get to see as many papers in person as I’d originally planned; we were very busy at our Metacoda stand. So it was great that the papers had already bee...

SAS on a video game system? I called it.

Chris hemedinger — Wed, 23 May 2012 19:58:22 +0000

Back in 2009, I announced that SAS was developing a version of its business analytics platform for use on the Nintendo Wii. I think I gave our legal department a heart attack with this news, until they realized that I had posted it on April 1. At SAS Global Forum [...]

Compute statistics for each row by using subscript operators

Rick Wicklin — Wed, 23 May 2012 09:27:47 +0000

In a previous blog, I showed how to use SAS/IML subscript reduction operators to compute the location of the maximum values for each row of a matrix. The subscript reduction operators are useful for computing simple statistics for each row (or column) of a numerical matrix. If x is a [...]

Query the Windows registry within your SAS program

Chris hemedinger — Tue, 22 May 2012 14:32:42 +0000

On the SAS-L mailing list, a participant posed this question (paraphrased): How can I tell which date format my Windows session is using: European format (with day first) versus USA format (with month first)? I'm reading in output from a Windows file listing, and need to know how to interpret [...]

Migrating sas from XP(32) to Win7(64)

BusinessKen/ Eli Kling — Tue, 22 May 2012 08:22:00 +0000

A client that is preparing to roll out windows 7 64 bit to all its employees asked me to ensure that the sas functionality is not lost. Currently they use V9.2 on xp in the good old fashioned way – disparate pc installations of base/stat/graph/ets

The Demise of the Gansy of Gnomes Gardening Club

Mark Stevens, Certification Specialist — Mon, 21 May 2012 14:37:58 +0000

This is a tale of woe and misery, but also one of hope. Woe and misery Our tale begins more than seven years ago, an age ago in Internet Time. A cloud (nay, another type of cloud than what may come to your mind in this Age) pervaded the halls [...]

Example 9.32: Multiple testing simulation

ken kleinman — Mon, 21 May 2012 14:36:00 +0000

In examples 9.30 and 9.31 we explored corrections for multiple testing and then extracting p-values adjusted by the Benjamini and Hochberg (or FDR) procedure. In this post we'll develop a simulation to explore the impact of "strong" and "weak" control...

SAS Talks features support.sas.com usage tips

renee harper — Mon, 21 May 2012 13:00:10 +0000

~ Contributed by Melissa Perez, Marketing Specialist, SAS ~ As most SAS customers are well aware, there is a load of content on support.sas.com. But how do you know where to find that information? Alas, we created a demo to walk through the main sectio...