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Data analysts often fit a probability distribution to data. When you have access to the data, a common technique is to use maximum likelihood estimation (MLE) to compute the parameters of a distribution that are "most likely" to have produced the observed data. However, how can you fit a distribution

Have you ever experienced that “gut feeling” ….you know the one that’s trying to tell you something and you don’t know why? I remember having a feeling I couldn’t quite explain fifteen years ago. There was a job opportunity in Canada. As a way to entice moving there, I was provided

Cuando se trata de invertir en nuevos mercados, mantener la rentabilidad de un negocio, o ayudar al crecimiento de una marca o compañía, las gerencias corporativas deben asumir retos que suponen riesgos. Sin embargo, la avanzada tecnología de analítica digital permite estudiar diversas variables y factores, con base en complejas

The R SWAT package (SAS Wrapper for Analytics Transfer) enables you to upload big data into an in-memory distributed environment to manage data and create predictive models using familiar R syntax. In the SAS Viya Integration with Open Source Languages: R course, you learn the syntax and methodology required to

Are you going to Denver, Colorado, and wondering what fun/interesting/eclectic things you can do there? Then this is the map for you! For the past couple of years, I've made maps of the city SAS Global Forum is in, pointing out some of the attractions that conference attendees might want

The LOESS statement in PROC SGPLOT finds a fit function while making no assumptions about the parametric form of the regression function.

‘국영수코(co)’라는 신조어 들어보셨나요? 국어, 영어, 수학, 코딩(coding)의 약자인데요. 교육부의 ‘2015 개정교육과정’에 따라 올해 3월부터 중학생, 내년부터는 초등학교 5, 6학년 학생의 소프트웨어(SW) 교육이 의무화되면서 코딩 교육과 관련 자격증 열풍이 불고 있습니다. 미국, 영국 등 IT 선진국들은 이미 발 빠르게 코딩 교육을 의무화하며, 4차 산업혁명 시대의 인재 확보에 나섰는데요. SAS 역시 2014년, 학습이나 비상업적인

Planeación y optimización, la fórmula para las empresas demand-driven Sus clientes tienen mucho qué decir; más de lo que usted cree. ¿Los está escuchando? No necesariamente tiene que charlar con ellos cuando realizan una compra –en la tienda o el portal de comercio electrónico. Lo que comunican va más allá

“There’s so much free time on my work calendar this week” said No SAS Employee Ever. For most of us there's never a lot of downtime at work but there are certain times of the year that we consider our ‘busy season’. For Work/Life it’s January, right after the holidays.

Numa era em que o cliente/consumidor ganha ainda mais importância junto de todos os negócios as empresas têm de se valer de todas as ferramentas existentes com o intuito de proporcionar melhores e mais valiosas experiências. O recurso a ferramentas analíticas e à Inteligência Artificial (AI) é, talvez, a melhor

Joyce Norris-Montanari starts this two-part series with some suggested actions you can take to help you comply with the GDPR.

Banken dürfen das Thema Model Risk Management nicht aussitzen – schon wegen der EZB und ihrer Initiative TRIM - Abwarten, verzögern, aussitzen: Die Banken tun seit Jahren nicht viel dafür, sich als aktiver Gegenpart der Bankenaufsicht zu profilieren. Ist ihnen das vorzuwerfen? Schließlich, so scheint es, treibt die Aufsicht auch

최근 금융감독원은 2017년 국내 보이스피싱 피해액이 2,423억원에 달하며, 전년 대비 26% 증가했다고 발표했습니다. 특히 하반기에만 가상화폐를 이용해 148억원이 탈취된 것으로 밝혀지며 논란이 되고 있는데요. 이렇게 IT 기술이 발달함에 따라 신종 자금세탁 수법이 등장하면서 사기 탐지는 더욱 어려워지고 있습니다. 결국 산업에 관계없이 모든 금융 범죄 조사관은 사기 탐지 기술과 전략을 지속적으로 강화하고,

Do you procrastinate and find excuses to delay doing certain things, even when you know they really ought to be done? And you probably realize that starting those projects is usually the hardest part, eh? Well, I finally started converting hundreds of my SAS examples to use the new GfK maps,

Many people know that a surface can contain a saddle point, but did you know that you can define the saddle point of a matrix? Saddle points in matrices are somewhat rare, which means that if you choose a random matrix you are unlikely to choose one that has a