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Peter StyliadisJanuary 7, 2022 0

Getting Started with Python Integration to SAS® Viya® - Part 6 - Descriptive Statistics

Welcome to the sixth installment in my series Getting Started with Python Integration to SAS Viya. In previous posts, I discussed how to connect to the CAS server, how to execute CAS actions, and how to work with the results. Now it's time to generate simple descriptive statistics of a CAS table. Let's begin

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Yinliang WuDecember 23, 2021 0

SAS financial functions review and mortgage payment analysis

Let's take a look at the design and implementation of SAS functions in financial calculations. We'll do this through examples calculating and analyzing the monthly payment, interest, and principal for CPM/CAM mortgages.

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Ron CodyDecember 16, 2021 2

Summarizing data

Because it is near the end of the year, I thought a blog about "Summarizing" data might be in order. For these examples, I am going to use a simulated data set called Drug_Study, containing some categorical and numerical variables. For those interested readers, the SAS code that I used

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Marcia SurrattDecember 10, 2021 2

How to view CAS tables in SAS® Studio

CAS libraries enable you to access your CAS data. By defining the librefs for those caslibs in SAS Studio, you can have more interactive access to the CAS data.

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Anthony KanDecember 6, 2021 0

A Novice Perspective on SAS Viya Deployment

This post is written in the hopes of easing the SAS Viya deployment process for novices like me. Firstly, deploying SAS Viya, like most enterprise software packages, isn't a skill we're innately born with. We're going to need a little help, some good documentation, and time to absorb the intricoes

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Lora D. DelwicheDecember 3, 2021 3

Using variable names with special characters

When we wrote the sixth edition of The Little SAS Book: A Primer, one of our goals was to write it for all SAS programmers regardless of which interface they use for coding: SAS Studio, SAS Enterprise Guide, the SAS windowing environment, or batch. This is harder than it sounds.

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Ron CodyNovember 16, 2021 1

Creating Simulated Data Sets (Part Two)

This blog is a continuation of a previous blog that discussed creating simulated data sets. If you have not seen it, you might want to review it, especially if you are not familiar with the RAND function. The program that I'm going to show you simulates a drug study with

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Pedro PucheNovember 9, 2021 0

How I used a SAS ML model and Intelligent Decisioning to build a calculator

If you are thinking that nobody in their right mind would implement a Calculator API Service with a machine learning model, then yes, you’re probably right. But considering curiosity is in my DNA, it sometimes works this way and machine learning is fun. I have challenged myself to do it,

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Ron CodyNovember 2, 2021 0

Creating Simulated Data Sets

There are times when it is useful to simulate data. One of the reasons I use simulated data sets is to demonstrate statistical techniques such as multiple or logistic regression. By using SAS random functions and some DATA step logic, you can create variables that follow certain distributions or are

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Mike GillilandOctober 29, 2021 0

Additional statistical capabilities in the containerized deployment of SAS Analytics Pro

SAS Analytics Pro consists of three core elements of the SAS system: Base SAS®, SAS/GRAPH® and SAS/STAT®. The containerized deployment option adds the full selection of SAS/ACCESS engines making it even easier to work with data from virtually any source.

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