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

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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: 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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SAS author's tip: using %NRSTR to mask macro triggers

Shelly Goodin
Shelly Goodin|February 10, 2012

As SAS user Marje Fecht said “We all want a ‘SAS programming assistant’ to help us complete our jobs more quickly.” Fecht, Senior Partner at Prowerk Consulting, then went on to say “In her book SAS Macro Programming Made Easy, Second Edition, Michele Burlew encourages us to take advantage of the SAS [...]

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SAS author’s tip: Bubble plots in PROC GPLOT

Shelly Goodin
Shelly Goodin|January 17, 2012

Robert Rutledge’s book Just Enough SAS is the source of this week’s SAS tip. It would be easy to turn almost any page of Robert’s book into a stand-alone tip. However, today my attention was drawn to two side-by-side pages. One features a PROC GCHART pie chart (and includes a DONUT statement) and the other [...]

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SAS author's tip: releasing unused space in a SAS data library

Shelly Goodin
Shelly Goodin|January 4, 2012

Early in the new year, many of us make decisions designed to make our lives simpler, more meaningful, and less costly. So selecting 2012′s first weekly tip was actually quite easy.  Phil Holland’s revered guide Saving Time and Money Using SAS is a natural fit. I’ve featured a few excerpts from Phil’s work in the past [...]

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SAS author's tip: Using PROC FREQ to export descriptive statistics

Shelly Goodin
Shelly Goodin|December 16, 2011

This week’s SAS author’s tip comes from Jack Shostak - manager of statistical programming at the Duke Clinical Research Institute. Despite his youthful appearance, Jack’s been using SAS since 1985 and is the author of SAS Programming in the Pharmaceutical Industry and coauthor of Common Statistical Methods for Clinical Research with SAS Examples, [...]

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