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A dummy variable (also known as indicator variable) is a numeric variable that indicates the presence or absence of some level of a categorical variable. The word "dummy" does not imply that these variables are not smart. Rather, dummy variables serve as a substitute or a proxy for a categorical
Last week I described how to use PROC IOMOPERATE to list the active SAS sessions that have been spawned in your SAS environment. I promised that I would share a custom task that simplifies the technique. Today I'm sharing that task with you. How to get the SAS Spawned Processes
With many names, it's difficult to know whether the person is male or female. Let's use the power of analytics to determine which names are the most unisex, based on the number of boys and girls with those names. But, before we get started, here's a picture of my friend
Medicare payment changes are coming. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has announced the intention of increasing the proportion of payments to providers based on outcomes and changes in health status, as opposed to delivery of services. At the January 11th, 2016 J.P. Morgan Annual Health Care Conference,
PROC DS2 (DS2) is a new SAS programming language that extends the power of the traditional DATA step. Some customers have wondered if this new functionality is simply the “DATA step on steroids,” meaning that we simply added more robust functionality so that it’s a replacement for the DATA step.
Happy Friday! Here is another guest blog post for our February Relationship Series. This week features Caitlin Kline, LCSW, exploring the decision of whether or not to get married. To Have and to Hold or to Hold Out A therapist’s take on moving a long-term relationship into marriage By Caitlin Kline, MSW,
Last week I posted an article on creating Infographics using SAS. The interest shown by the SAS community in this topic came as a surprise. Also, it so happened by coincidence, a SAS users also called into Tech Support just about the same time with a query about creating Infographics type graph
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In a previous blog I suggested that many readers in many applied areas are reading statistics texts under duress for a course or project, and are in truth somewhere between disinterested and terrified. In my new SAS Press book Business Statistics Made Easy in SAS® I make use of various
Where to start: Knowing when a parent needs help, and what kind Many times we will receive a call from someone stating that their loved one needs nursing home placement when, in fact, that may not be the most appropriate level of care. Often individuals are faced with making a
As I explained in Part 1 of this series, creating a strategy for the data in an organization is not a straightforward task. Two of the most important issues you'll want to address in your data strategy are data quality and big data. Data quality There can be no data that is
Our cardiovascular systems are "complex arrangements of hydraulic, yet living, components" (Swain, 2000). Just as water must constantly flow at varied rates through a water system in a city, blood must also circulate rhythmically throughout our bodies to keep us vibrant and healthy. The heart drives the entire system. We get more efficient at
When the Toyota Prius first came out, the gas mileage claims astonished everyone. But now that almost every manufacturer offers their own hybrid, is the Prius mpg really all that great? Let's analyze the data ... But before we get to the analytics, let me tell you a little about
REpresentational State Transfer (REST) is an architectural style for designing web services that access a system's resources using HTTP methods. With the release of DataFlux Data Management 2.7 earlier this year, three new REST Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) are now available: Data Management Server Batch Jobs Data Management Server Real-time
¿Cuáles son los retos del sector financiero en Latinoamérica? ¿Cómo detectar y prevenir el fraude en los bancos y empresas de seguros de una vez por todas? ¿Podemos reducir el riesgo de pérdidas relacionadas con estas conductas fraudulentas? ¿Cómo minimizar los daños e impacto en la reputación organizacional? La lucha