For decades, researchers and programmers have used SAS to analyze, summarize, and report clinical trial data. Now Chris Holland and Jack Shostak have written the first comprehensive book on applying clinical research data and metadata to the Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC) standards. What does this mean for you—the
We had some fierce wind storms all across the United States yesterday, which even spawned some tornadoes! It looks like we weathered the storm OK here in Cary (but I still need to run out to the lake and make sure my pontoon/houseboat is still there, agh!). Anyway ... as with other
Over the holidays I was having a discussion with my cat, Ms. Trixie Lou. A question that often arises during the first programming class is the following: how do I find the variables that are in common to these two or three data sets? As it turns out, Ms. Trixie
The global marketplace has been volatile, fragmented, and dynamic and is predicted to continue. Subsequently, supply processes have become more mature than demand as industries focused on operational excellence over the past two decades. As a result, there is a larger gap to fill in the redefinition of demand processes
This week's SAS tip is from Kirk Lafler and his book PROC SQL: Beyond the Basics Using SAS. A SAS user since 1979, Kirk often takes his expertise on the road and is a frequent speaker at SAS conferences. He's also currently working on a second edition of the book. If
In your organization, are you prevented from using the email alias of a distribution list (e.g. groupname@comp.domain.com), and would therefore like to extract the list recipients into a flat file to loop through/use the SAS Enterprise Miner functions, etc. to send the mail? This question was recently asked by a
"Correlation does not equal causation"; this is true across all data analytics, including human capital analytics, and it's a concept that coauthors Gene Pease, Boyce Byerly, and Jac Fitz-enz discuss in their new book, Human Capital Analytics: How to Harness the Potential of Your Organization's Greatest Asset. "How can we
So you want to install the SAS Intelligence Platform on a server, but you just don’t have the time to read the documentation about how to perform the install. Or, maybe, you just do not feel comfortable jumping into the install on your own. Let me give you a few
Welcome to my new blog series, The Book Writing Business. Throughout the year, I will introduce topics and questions related to writing a book. Oftentimes, I'll give you my take on them. But more importantly, you'll hear directly from our authors. They'll tell you why they write for SAS Press
SAS Technical Support has a wonderful how-to guide for using one set of prompt values across multiple sections of a Web Report Studio report. This works great in 4.2, however there is one additional item that I discovered in a 4.3/9.3 install. With the addition of PROC STP and SAS
