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Rick WicklinDecember 2, 2011 0

Some SAS Samples have long titles, but what is the length of the longest title that has appeared so far?

Recently the "SAS Sample of the Day" was a Knowledge Base article with an impressively long title: Sample 42165: Using a stored process to eliminate duplicate values caused by multiple group memberships when creating a group-based, identity-driven filter in SAS® Information Map Studio "Wow," I thought. "This is the longest

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Rick WicklinNovember 18, 2011 0

The distribution of flavors in Halloween candies

Halloween night was rainy, so many fewer kids knocked on the door than usual. Consequently, I'm left with a big bucket of undistributed candy. One evening as I treated myself to a mouthful of tooth decay, I chanced to open a package of Wonka® Bottle Caps. The package contained three

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Rick WicklinNovember 4, 2011 0

Reshape data so that each category becomes a new variable

Being able to reshape data is a useful skill in data analysis. Most of the time you can use the TRANSPOSE procedure or the SAS DATA step to reshape your data. But the SAS/IML language can be handy, too. I only use PROC TRANSPOSE a few times per year, so

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