Emily Lada, Author at SAS Blogs

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Principal Operations Research Specialist

Emily Lada is the SAS Simulation Studio Team Lead in the Operations Research department within the SAS Advanced Analytics Division. She is responsible for providing subject matter expertise to assist in the definition, design, and validation of required software features for SAS Simulation Studio. Emily earned a Ph.D. in Operations Research from North Carolina State University and she has worked for SAS Institute since 2005

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Emily LadaDecember 4, 2014 0

Using simulation to help Duke Hospital's tiniest patients

Last year, my SAS Simulation Studio R&D team began a discrete-event simulation modeling project of a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) with two doctors from Duke University’s Division of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine. After several initial meetings discussing such things as necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC), retinopathy of prematurity (ROP), patent ductus arteriosis (PDA), and

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Advanced Analytics

Emily LadaOctober 16, 2014 0

How discrete-event simulation can help project prison populations

In 2011, the passage of the federal Justice Reinvestment Act (JRA) brought significant changes to North Carolina’s criminal sentencing practices, particularly in relation to the supervision of offenders released into the community on probation or post-release supervision. A recent New York Times article highlighted how NC has used the implementation

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