Quantile definitions in SAS
In last week's article about the Flint water crisis, I computed the 90th percentile of…
Tag: SAS Programming
INTCK and INTNX: Two essential functions for computing intervals between dates in SAS
Last week I showed a timeline of living US presidents. The number of living presidents…
Is ODS graphics enabled? Use automatic macro variables to determine the state of SAS
Did you know that you can check a SAS macro variable to see if ODS…
Discover information about SAS formats... programmatically
SAS formats are very useful and can be used in a myriad of creative ways.…
LEAVE and CONTINUE: Two ways to control the flow in a SAS DO loop
SAS programmers who have experience with other programming languages sometimes wonder whether the SAS language…
Find a pattern in a sequence of digits
I recently needed to solve a fun programming problem. I challenge other SAS programmers to…
Display output conditionally with PROC DOCUMENT
Suppose you have several discrete variables. You want to conduct a frequency analysis of these…
Reorder the output from a BY-group analysis in SAS
After reading my article about how to use BY-group processing to run 1000 regression models,…
Point/Counterpoint: Should a programming language accept misspelled keywords?
Longtime SAS programmers know that the SAS DATA step and SAS procedures are very tolerant…
What colors does PROC SGPLOT use for markers?
Suppose you create a scatter plot in SAS with PROC SGPLOT. What color does PROC…