Welcome! It’s time for another installment of the Book Writing Business. We’ve talked about the writing aspect and how it can help one’s career. Some people feel overwhelmed at the thought of writing a book. But sometimes the actual writing of the book is the easy part. The tough part
This year at SAS Global Forum, the theme is “Strength in Numbers” and SAS Education is offering a number of training and certification opportunities to strengthen your SAS knowledge. We hope that you will take advantage of this unique chance to take a class, get SAS certified and attend the
In the previous blog on CLASS variables, we developed the idea of creating design variables and examined GLM and reference coding. Another coding scheme, known as ‘Effect Coding’ or ‘Deviation from the Mean Coding’ is also commonly used. Consider our previous scenario of modeling the average amount spent on a
We’ve gone mobile so you can too. Come see us at SAS Global Forum and be one of the first to try our new e-Courses on the tablet! SAS Programming 1 and SAS Programming 2, soon available on your tablet devices, also feature free access to the SAS Practice editor
This week's SAS tip is from Ron Cody and his popular book SAS Statistics by Example. Ron is the author of many bestselling SAS books. If you like this week's excerpt, visit his author page for additional bonus content from his books! The following excerpt is from SAS Press author Ron
In this previous blog, I conducted a Q&A interview with SAS instructor Theresa Stemler about the new Exporting SAS Data Sets and Creating ODS Files for Microsoft Excel course that she recently developed. Since teaching the new course, Theresa has responded to several questions from students and wanted to share
I haven't seen an official definition of 'infographic' that I really like ... but in my mind it's something 1/2 way between data visualization & artwork. It borrows elements from graphs & dashboards, and combines that with an artistic poster. If you perform a Google image search on infographic you'll see
NASA's Kepler mission has discovered a world where two suns set over the horizon instead of just one. The planet, called Kepler-16b, is the most "Tatooine-like" planet yet found in our galaxy." While catching up on my reading, this article from NASA's Kepler project fired my imagination! At last, perhaps,
In the previous blog on CLASS variables, we developed the idea of creating design variables and examined GLM and reference coding. Consider our previous scenario of modeling the average amount spent on a credit card (SPEND) as a function of the variable INCOME (which has three levels: Low, Medium, and High).
While many analysts understand how to interpret the parameter estimates from linear regression with continuous input variables, they may feel less comfortable with parameter estimates from models with categorical inputs. SAS modeling procedures (such as PROC REG and others) need numerical information to represent all inputs—including classification variables. Suppose we
