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Kathryn McLawhornJanuary 18, 2019 0

Navigating SAS documentation to find out about new, modified, and updated features

Learn about the latest product features, changes and upgrade information in new sections of SAS product documentation for SAS® 9.4 and SAS® Viya®. SAS' Kathryn McLawhorn tells us all about them.

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Don HendersonJanuary 15, 2019 0

Four more tips about hash tables

Now is your chance to learn even more about SAS hash tables with four additional articles on the subject.

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Rick WicklinJanuary 14, 2019 0

How to align the Y and Y2 axes in PROC SGPLOT

When you overlay two series in PROC SGPLOT, you can either plot both series on the same axis or you can assign one series to the main axis (Y) and another to a secondary axis (Y2). If you use the Y and Y2 axes, they are scaled independently by default,

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Gerhard SvolbaJanuary 10, 2019 0

Favorite SAS Press books from a SAS Press author

Does this situation sound familiar? You have a complex analysis that must be finished urgently. The data was delivered late and its quality and structure are far from the expected standard. The time pressure to present the results is huge, and your SAS program is not giving you the expected

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British Columbia with projected values on OpenStreetMap

Kelly MillsJanuary 10, 2019 0

Use PROC GPROJECT to Project Choromap Regions Successfully in PROC SGMAP

Sometimes it is difficult to know what parameters to use when projecting map data onto Esri or OpenStreetMaps in PROC SGMAP. The shapefile .PRJ file contains everything you need to set these parameters in PROC GPROJECT. In a previous blog, you saw how to lookup projections at a web site,

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Leonid BatkhanJanuary 9, 2019 0

Simplify data preparation using SAS data templates

My New Year's resolution: “Unclutter your life” and I hope this post will help you do the same. Here I share with you a data preparation approach and SAS coding technique that will significantly simplify, unclutter and streamline your SAS programming life by using data templates. Dictionary.com defines template as

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Calibration plot for a misspecified logistic model

Rick WicklinJanuary 2, 2019 0

Top posts from The DO Loop in 2018

Last year, I wrote more than 100 posts for The DO Loop blog. Of these, the most popular articles were about data visualization, SAS programming tips, and statistical data analysis. Here are the most popular articles from 2018 in each category. Data Visualization Visualize repetition in song lyrics: In one

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Sanjay MatangeDecember 20, 2018 0

A Graphical Journey

The ODS Graphics software, first released with SAS 9.2, supported creating graphs directly from statistical procedures. Prior to this, very few statistical procedures created graphs on their own, and in most cases creating graphs was a post process or creating the graphs from the saved data using SAS/GRAPH procedures. With

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Markus GrauDecember 19, 2018 0

Die eierlegende Wollmilchsau für datengetriebene Entscheidungen – es gibt sie!

Sie lebt in der Cloud und ist sehr genügsam. Als Allesfresser nimmt sie jegliche Art von Daten dankbar entgegen. Seien das nun strukturierte oder unstrukturierte Daten in allen Formen und Facetten … Sie ist einerseits mit sehr wenig zufrieden und holt das Bestmögliche aus wenigen Daten heraus, kann allerdings, wenn

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Sian RobertsDecember 18, 2018 0

The Model Gift – Transforming Data into Actionable Insights!

SAS for Mixed Models: Introduction to Basic Applications takes you step-by-step through the journey of creating models, enabling you to transform scores of data into actionable insights.

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Michael HerrmannDecember 17, 2018 0

DevOps & SAS: Entwicklung und Betrieb aus einer Hand?

K(o)ennen Sie schon „DevOps“? Machen Sie SAS? Dann lohnt sich eventuell ein frischer Blick auf die Kombination! Denn immer mehr Unternehmen probieren, ihren produktiven Betrieb auch in die Hände der Software-Entwickler zu legen (2 von 3 laut Jenkins) – speziell in der Analyse, insbesondere beim agilen Modellieren und dem Veredeln

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Rick WicklinDecember 17, 2018 0

Create a probability plot in SAS

Many data analysts use a quantile-quantile plot (Q-Q plot) to graphically assess whether data can be modeled by a probability distribution such as the normal, lognormal, or gamma distribution. You can use the QQPLOT statement in PROC UNIVARIATE to create a Q-Q plot for about a dozen common distributions. However,

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Kim WilsonDecember 13, 2018 0

FAQs about SAS dates, arrays and managing local PC files

Every so often, SAS Technical Support highlights questions that come in on a regular basis. This is one of those times. Here Kim Wilson describes answers to questions covering SAS dates, arrays, and how to reference local PC files from SAS® Enterprise Guide® and SAS® Studio when those applications connect to a SAS® server in UNIX operating environments.

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A bootstrap analysis (1) Starts with data, (2) resamples from the data many times to create bootstrap samples, (3) computes a statistic for each sample, and (4) uses the distribution of the bootstrap statistics to make inferences.

Rick WicklinDecember 12, 2018 0

The essential guide to bootstrapping in SAS

This article describes best practices and techniques that every data analyst should know before bootstrapping in SAS. The bootstrap method is a powerful statistical technique, but it can be a challenge to implement it efficiently. An inefficient bootstrap program can take hours to run, whereas a well-written program can give

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SGMAP SCATTER Data Limited by the GEODIST Function

Kelly MillsDecember 11, 2018 0

PROC SGMAP using CSV Files, GINSIDE and GEODIST to Plot Places of Interest

As mentioned in other PROC SGMAP blogs, several SAS/GRAPH procedures have been moved to 9.4M6 Base SAS to be used with PROC SGMAP. You can use these to create PROC SGMAP output even when using the free SAS University edition. In this blog you will use the: IMPORT procedure for

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Terry BarhamDecember 11, 2018 0

Take your SAS exam from home or office

SAS has partnered with Pearson VUE to offer Online Proctored for all public SAS exams.

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Larry LaRussoDecember 10, 2018 0

Navigating the Candy Wall of SAS Support Resources

While support.sas.com remains the holy grail of SAS support resources, there are so many good choices, it can sometimes be hard to know where to start. That’s why we’ve put together a new guide to make things easier for new SAS users: the SAS Starter Kit.

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Rick WicklinDecember 10, 2018 0

Visualize Christmas songs

The best way to spread Christmas cheer is singing loud for all to hear! -Buddy in Elf In the Christmas movie Elf (2003), Jovie (played by Zooey Deschanel) must "spread Christmas cheer" to help Santa. She chooses to sing "Santa Claus is coming to town," and soon all of New

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Sanjay MatangeDecember 7, 2018 0

The SGPIE Procedure - Part 2

The SAS 9.4M6 software includes a new SGPIE procedure (preproduction) as introduced in the recent article - The SGPIE Procedure. In that article, I described the basic features of the two statements supported in the procedure, the PIE and the DONUT, with some examples. It is my humble opinion that

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The Analytics Platform seen through Enterprise Architecture

James Ochiai-BrownDecember 5, 2018 0

The Analytics Platform seen through Enterprise Architecture

Analytics is on every agenda – including Enterprise Architecture Data analytics and AI is now on the agenda of every organisation. After years of being the back-room preserve of analysts, it is now out in the open, in the boardroom and being proclaimed as central to business strategy and transformation.

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Joseph M. WoodsideDecember 5, 2018 0

Government Healthcare Data Ensemble Modeling

Joseph Woodside discusses the use of using ensemble modeling in SAS for fraud detection and readmissions.

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Rick WicklinDecember 5, 2018 0

When is a histogram not a histogram? When it's a table!

Recently a SAS programmer wanted to obtain a table of counts that was based on a histogram. I showed him how you can use the OUTHIST= option on the HISTOGRAM statement in PROC UNIVARIATE to obtain that information. For example, the following call to PROC UNIVARIATE creates a histogram for

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Rick WicklinDecember 3, 2018 0

5 tips for customizing legends in PROC SGPLOT in SAS

When a graph includes several markers or line styles, it is often useful to create a legend that explains the relationship between the data and the symbols, color, and line styles in the graph. The SGPLOT procedure does a good job of automatically creating and placing a legend for most

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Kelly MillsNovember 29, 2018 0

PROC SGMAP Series Plot – Importing Shapefiles and using PROC GPROJECT

In August 2018, Hurricane Florence came on shore in North Carolina. Much of the damage was from flooding because the storm moved slowly over North and South Carolina. Parts of North Carolina had over 30 inches of rain from the storm, and this caused many of North Carolina’s rivers to

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Charu ShankarNovember 28, 2018 0

3 things you need to know about SAS Global Forum 2019 from the conference chair

Find out what SAS Global Forum 2019 conference chair MaryAnne DePesquo says about the upcoming conference in Dallas.

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Marcia SurrattNovember 28, 2018 0

Making great graphs even better with ODS Graphics

This blog post shows a few samples of graphs and explains how you can use new functionality in ODS Graphics to make your old graphs look new again. And, ODS Graphics is part of Base SAS, which means that all of these techniques work in SAS University Edition.

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The Danube and Vienna: Big Data Deluge and Data Science Paradise

Gerhard SvolbaNovember 27, 2018 0

The Danube and Vienna: Big Data Deluge and Data Science Paradise

Vienna and the Danube River. Numerous songs, stories and movies document the strong and lovely connection between Vienna and its river. This has, however, not always been the case. Over centuries the river remained a big threat for the city, and it took a lot of engineering to convert it

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Sanjay MatangeNovember 26, 2018 0

The SGPIE Procedure

The 6th maintenance release of SAS 9.4 is now available for users. Along with it comes a new SG procedure - the SGPIE procedure (pre-production). The primary audience for the SG procedures has been the analytical user, for creating effective displays of analytical data. However, the rich feature set of these

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Joseph M. WoodsideNovember 26, 2018 0

Digital Disruption in Healthcare

Joseph Woodside discusses the evolution of digital transformation in healthcare in three eras.

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Graph of norm of solutions to the singular system A*b=c. The norm is plotted for vectors b + alpha*x_Null where b is the Moore-Penrose solution and x_Null is a basis for the nullspace of A.

Rick WicklinNovember 21, 2018 0

Generalized inverses for matrices

A data analyst asked how to compute parameter estimates in a linear regression model when the underlying data matrix is rank deficient. This situation can occur if one of the variables in the regression is a linear combination of other variables. It also occurs when you use the GLM parameterization

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