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Peter StyliadisAugust 27, 2021 0

Welcome back to my SAS Users blog series CAS Action! - a series on fundamentals. I've broken the series into logical, consumable parts. If you'd like to start by learning a little more about what CAS Actions are, please see CAS Actions and Action Sets - a brief intro. Or

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Leonid BatkhanAugust 23, 2021 17

Removing leading characters from SAS strings

SAS' Leonid Batkhan shows you how to remove ANY leading characters (not just blanks) from text strings to tidy up your data.

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Peter StyliadisAugust 19, 2021 0

CAS-Action! fetch CAS, fetch! - Part 2

In Part 1 of my series fetch CAS, fetch!, I executed the fetch CAS action to return rows from a CAS table. That was great, but what can you do with the results? Maybe you want to create a visualization that includes the top five cars by MSRP for all

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Martin MinceyAugust 17, 2021 3

How to create EMF graph output files that can be edited outside of your SAS® program

What happens if you need to edit graph output files from SAS in a different application (for example, Microsoft Word)? It is not recommended that you edit your SAS graph output outside of SAS, but, if you must do so, you need to create your graphics output as EMF (Enhanced Metafile Format) graph output.

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Daria RostovtsevaAugust 16, 2021 0

Classifying messy documents: A common-sense approach (Part II)

In Part I of this blog post, I provided an overview of the approach my team and I took tackling the problem of classifying diverse, messy documents at scale. I shared the details of how we chose to preprocess the data and how we created features from documents of interest

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Peter StyliadisAugust 12, 2021 1

CAS-Action! fetch CAS, fetch! - Part 1

Welcome to my SAS Users blog series CAS Action! - a series on fundamentals. I've broken the series into logical, consumable parts. If you'd like to start by learning a little more about what CAS Actions are, please see CAS Actions and Action Sets - a brief intro. Or if

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Ron CodyAugust 10, 2021 0

How to Transform a Skewed Distribution to a Uniform Distribution

This post demonstrates how to rank data and how to place these ranks into roughly equal groups. There are certain variables, such as annual salary, that are highly skewed. There are many who earn between $50,00 and $150,000, but some who earn millions or hundreds of millions of dollars a

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Peter StyliadisAugust 6, 2021 7

CAS Actions and Action Sets - a brief intro

I'm excited to curate a series of posts focused on CAS Actions. However, before I dive into details and code, I thought I'd take a moment to lay a foundation for a better understanding of CAS and CAS actions. I'll cover things here at a high level as there's quite

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Peter StyliadisAugust 6, 2021 0

CAS Action! - a series on fundamentals

I'm excited to bring a series of posts centered on CAS Actions. The topics in the list below will be covered in posts set to publish in the next few weeks. Please check back often for new releases. CAS Actions and Action Sets - a brief intro - Introduction to the

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Randy CollicaJuly 29, 2021 2

An analytic transform for cantankerous data

As an example, when using ordinary least squares regression (OLS), if your response or dependent attribute’s residuals are not normally distributed, your analysis is likely going to be affected and typically not in a good way. The farther away your input data is from normality, the impact on your model

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