It’s National Intern Day! Created by WayUp, National Intern Day is a holiday dedicated to recognizing and celebrating the future leaders of the world: Interns. At SAS, we feel like every day should be Intern Day, but #NationalnternDay presents a unique opportunity to celebrate the value interns bring to our company. This
When you write a program that simulates data from a statistical model, you should always check that the simulation code is correct. One way to do this is to generate a large simulated sample, estimate the parameters in the simulated data, and make sure that the estimates are close to
Each of us has been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic in a myriad of ways. In March we dove deep, headfirst, into a number of emotions and a new way of life that is ever-evolving. Some people may find they are drinking more in one night or more days of
For many retailers, the biggest challenge was simply to have enough staff to get products onto shelves quickly enough.
Dashboards and metrics support data-driven decisions – if you understand the terms.
The Kronecker product (also called the direct product) is a binary operation that combines two matrices to form a new matrix. The Kronecker product appears in textbooks about the design of experiments and multivariate statistics. The Kronecker product seems intimidating at first, but often one of the matrices in the
Alena caught up with Pedro Peleja, Technology Transformation Director at Una Seguros, to talk about digital transformation.
Move from rapid response to long-term resiliency based on these 5 tips.
Last month a SAS programmer asked how to fit a multivariate Gaussian mixture model in SAS. For univariate data, you can use the FMM Procedure, which fits a large variety of finite mixture models. If your company is using SAS Viya, you can use the MBC or GMM procedures, which
Everyone is familiar with The Confidence Man. This person can spout any sort of nonsense and easily demonstrable lies, and yet 40% of the people still believe him. The Confidence Man exposes a curious characteristic about human behavior: If you make your assertions with extreme confidence, no matter how obviously
For SAS and its partners, it provides opportunities for growth, new markets, and better service.
Una vez más, una crisis demuestra que la realidad tiene su lado crudo, pero también que es una oportunidad para evolucionar. En el entorno empresarial, la actual pandemia ha planteado enormes retos económicos para las organizaciones: ha puesto en riesgo la rentabilidad y continuidad de algunas, mientras que impulsó las
What leads to development of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence techniques to find complex patterns in data?
July marks the 30th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), a landmark civil rights legislation that has positively impacted the lives of millions of people with disabilities in the United States. It’s always a good time to hear the perspectives of others, and this time presents a unique
When Liverpool clinched the Premier League title with a win on June 25, my household was giddy. We are a family of sports fans, and we especially love baseball (Go, Red Sox!) and soccer. I’m a relative newbie to Liverpool, having cheered for them for the last five years. Having
If the UK economy is going to achieve the target of bringing all greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2050 the application of Intelligent Decisioning will play a major role in helping achieve this target.
I recently showed how to compute within-group multivariate statistics by using the SAS/IML language. However, a principal of good software design is to encapsulate functionality and write self-contained functions that compute and return the results. What is the best way to return multiple statistics from a SAS/IML module? A convenient
L'Intelligence Artificielle (IA) et l'analytique aident à la détection des premiers symptômes indicateurs d'une possible épidémie. Ce qui contribue largement à limiter la propagation d'un virus. Il faut pouvoir compter sur des techniques analytiques capables de repérer des événements rares mais significatifs, comme une hausse de l'absentéisme dans une école
Ever heard of a Turducken? It's a chicken stuffed inside a duck that's stuffed inside a turkey along with layers of stuffing (which I just learned is referred to as a three-bird roast outside the US and Canada; there's also an English variant known as a gooducken, where the turkey
Utility companies have a choice: aggressive debt collection, or debt forgiveness or ‘holidays’.
IIASA(International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, 국제응용시스템분석연구소)는 인류가 당면한 전 세계 환경과 경제, 기술, 사회적 변화로 인한 문제를 연구하는 독립적인 국제 과학 연구소입니다. 이곳에서는 특히, 글로벌 환경과 사회에 영향을 미치는 요소와 그 원인을 명확히 이해하기 위해 분석 기술을 적극 활용하고 있습니다. SAS는 교육, 환경, 건강, 인권, 빈곤 등 다양한 사회
As companhias de seguros enfrentam diferentes exigências por parte dos clientes e num cenário cada vez mais fraturante e competitivo. Na verdade, elas precisam de ser capazes de usar os dados e o conhecimento, de forma rápida e eficaz, para se manterem na linha da frente. Durante a crise do
„Ich kann den Leuten errechnen, ob ihr Business erfolgreich sein wird, weil ich Strukturen aufdecke, auf die man nie kommen würde.“
Why fraud prevention and anti-money laundering teams can learn a lot from each other—and how convergence can benefit both.
I was supposed to be behind a desk downing M&M’s and enjoying the SAS campus and all its glory. But instead, I’m working from home as an external communications intern. Working from home has been a blessing filled with challenges I never thought I’d experience this summer. The first one
The multivariate normal distribution is used frequently in multivariate statistics and machine learning. In many applications, you need to evaluate the log-likelihood function in order to compare how well different models fit the data. The log-likelihood for a vector x is the natural logarithm of the multivariate normal (MVN) density
SAS experts point to five trends that are shaping the future for digital tax administration.
Human brains are hardwired to build maps. We navigate the world around us through the creation of mental maps. Maps that assemble abstract landmarks and build spatial relationships between them. If you think about how you navigate through your house, even in the dark, it is quite amazing. Maps have
A previous article introduces the MAPREDUCE function in the iml action. (The iml action was introduced in Viya 3.5.) The MAPREDUCE function implements the map-reduce paradigm, which is a two-step process for distributing a computation to multiple threads. The example in the previous article adds a set of numbers by
