SAS users world-wide have turned to Susan Slaughter, Lora Delwiche, and The Little SAS Book to learn SAS programming. This week's SAS tip is from their bestselling fourth edition of the book (the fifth edition is now available for preorder). Whichever version of The Little SAS Book you use, you'll benefit from the friendly
Edward Vonesh is a managing member of Vonesh Statistical Consulting, LLC, as well as a part-time employee of Northwestern University, where he supports research in his capacity as professor in the Department of Preventive Medicine. Needless to say, he knows a thing or two about generalized linear and nonlinear models.
This week's SAS tip is from A. John Bailer and his book Statistical Programming in SAS. A Fellow of the American Statistical Association, John has been using SAS for 30 years. He's also Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Department of Statistics at Miami University. To read a free chapter and user reviews
Facebook has millions of users, and therefore when people share an interesting graph on Facebook it can "go viral" and millions of people might see it. Some of the graphs are obviously a bit biased - especially ones that are trying to sway your opinion one way or another on a topic
One of my students emailed me, asking how to easily reset SAS system options. He was looking for a one-liner solution, just like you get with graphic options: GOPTIONS RESET; While there isn't a RESET keyword for the OPTIONS statement, you can save your options settings before making changes using
In the course of my job, I get to have a lot of conversations with authors about their books. One of the aspects of those conversations I enjoy most is learning about their areas of expertise and knowledge—that could be certain SAS software or programming techniques, particular fields of analytics,
Do you use SAS for analytics and Microsoft Excel for graphs? Why not use SAS for your graphs too?!? Then you could completely automate the entire process in one SAS program, with no manual steps! A lot of people use Excel to create their graphs because "it's what they know." What if somebody
The SAS System provides users with the ability to create, store and access custom functions using the Function Compiler (FCMP) procedure. Once defined with PROC FCMP, a user-defined function can be used, or called, just like any other SAS function in the SAS System. This powerful capability gives users the
Everyone in the world has their attention turned towards the Olympics this week, so what better topic to tie in to a SAS/GRAPH blog than that?!?! I had seen a graph on the guardian website that I thought was interesting, so I decided to try to create my own (slightly different)
