SAS author's tip: debugging with the LIST option

Shelly Goodin
Shelly Goodin|May 18, 2012

This week’s tip comes from SAS powerhouse Art Carpenter and his book Carpenter’s Complete Guide to the SAS REPORT Procedure. SAS user Kim LeBouton called this book “the single best resource for PROC REPORT.” And in his review, SAS user Charles Patridge said “This is a must-have book if you are a SAS [...]

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SAS author's tip: the Student t-distribution

Shelly Goodin
Shelly Goodin|May 11, 2012

Remarkably, this week’s tip was initially inspired by the Guinness Brewery in Dublin, Ireland. In his new book Statistical Analysis for Business Using JMP, Professor Willbann Terpening provides lots of useful information – including the origin and usage of the Student t-distribution. If you’d like to get to know Willbann and [...]

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SAS author's tip: Using MLOGIC

Shelly Goodin
Shelly Goodin|May 4, 2012

This week’s SAS author’s tip comes from Carol Matthews and Brian Shilling and their book Validating Clinical Trial Data Reporting with SAS.  SAS users have raved about this guide. In her review, Susan Fehrer said “Carol and Brian’s book provides a good overview, practical hands-on tips, and many examples of how to perform [...]

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SAS author's tip: Help from the DESCRIBE TABLE statement

Shelly Goodin
Shelly Goodin|April 6, 2012

The first line of this week’s SAS tip grabs your attention, “PROC SQL provides a helpful (though potentially dangerous) tool in the form of the DESCRIBE TABLE statement.” SAS author, consultant, and member of the SAS-L Hall of Fame Howard Schreier included this intriguing statement in his book PROC SQL by Example: Using [...]

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SAS author's tip: PROC G3D

Shelly Goodin
Shelly Goodin|March 30, 2012

The title of this week’s SAS author’s tip amuses me. My non-programming mind is conjuring up a seriously cool PROC that leaps off the page. Or something like that. In reality, when looking for a potential tip in Wendy Bohnenkamp’s and Jackie Iverson’s book SAS Graphics for Java, I spotted many intriguing-looking graphs. Written for programmers [...]

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SAS author's tip: creating a bar chart using PROC SGPLOT

Shelly Goodin
Shelly Goodin|March 23, 2012

This week’s tip comes from Ron Cody – SAS author and expert extraordinaire. Ron’s written several bestselling SAS Press books including his latest SAS Statistics by Example. If you haven’t taken a look at Ron’s extensive work, I’d invite you to visit his author page. You can read a free chapter from each of [...]

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SAS author's tip: writing LSMEANS statements

Shelly Goodin
Shelly Goodin|March 15, 2012

This week’s SAS tip on writing LSMEANS statements comes from the big spring-green book A Step-by-Step Approach to Using SAS for Univariate and Multivariate Statistics, Second Edition. Striking in appearance, this comprehensive guide by professors Norm O’Rourke, Larry Hatcher, and Edward J. Stepanski is a great resource for students, researchers, and data analysts. [...]

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SAS author's tip: selecting variables to include in output

Shelly Goodin
Shelly Goodin|March 8, 2012

This week’s tip comes from three authors who’ve made a big impact within the SAS user community. Lauren Haworth, Cynthia Zender, and Michele Burlew partnered up to write Output Delivery System: The Basics and Beyond a couple of years ago-and their book remains a bestselling go-to guide for anyone wanting to learn more about ODS. [...]

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SAS author's tip: Alternative ODS destinations

Shelly Goodin
Shelly Goodin|February 27, 2012

Neil Constable is a Principal Education Consultant at SAS in the United Kingdom, where he applies his extensive knowledge of Base SAS, SAS Enterprise Guide, and the SAS business intelligence tools. He’s also the author of SAS Programming for Enterprise Guide Users, Second Edition–and this week’s featured tip. You can get to know Neil [...]

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SAS author's tip: Using text mining in CRM Applications

Shelly Goodin
Shelly Goodin|February 17, 2012

This week’s SAS author’s tip comes from Randy Collica and his new book Customer Segmentation and Clustering Using SAS Enterprise Miner, Second Edition. Randy, a Senior Solutions Architect for SAS, is extremely knowledgeable and approachable. In his new book, Randy uses SAS Enterprise Miner and the most commonly available techniques for customer [...]

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