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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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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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SAS KoreaDecember 10, 2018 0

머신러닝 해석력 시리즈 4탄: 라임(LIME)으로 모델 해석력 개선하기!

그 동안 머신러닝 해석력 시리즈를 통해서 머신러닝의 부분 의존성(PD; Partial Dependence), 데이터 세트 해석 등을 소개해드렸는데요. 오늘은 라임(LIME; Local Interpretable Model-Agnostic Explanation)을 통해 머신러닝 모델의 해석력을 개선할 수 있는 방법에 대해서 알아보겠습니다. 머신러닝 모델 해석력 시리즈 1탄, 2탄, 3탄을 놓치셨다면 아래 링크를 통해 확인해주세요! 머신러닝 해석력 시리즈 1탄: 인공지능(AI)과 머신러닝을 신뢰하기 위한 필수

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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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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. ODS Graphics is part of Base SAS.

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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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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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Kelly MillsNovember 20, 2018 0

PROC SGMAP, Base SAS Procedures and MAPSSAS Data Sets

Starting with SAS 9.4M6, procedures that used to be provided with a SAS/GRAPH installation are now available with Base SAS.  Using these procedures along with PROC SGMAP can help you create some very nice maps.  This blog builds on previous posts and highlights the: MAPSSAS Data Sets GREMOVE procedure %CENTROID

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Rick WicklinNovember 19, 2018 0

Select ODS tables by using wildcards and regular expressions in SAS

You might know that you can use the ODS SELECT statement to display only some of the tables and graphs that are created by a SAS procedure. But did you know that you can use a WHERE clause on the ODS SELECT statement to display tables that match a pattern?

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Sanjay MatangeNovember 16, 2018 0

Waterfall Graph with more data for subject - Part 2

A few days back I published an article on including more subject data in a Waterfall graph.  This was motivated by the desire from many users to view more data in the same graph, thus avoiding the need to refer to different graphs for the relevant information.  In this case,

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Joseph M. WoodsideNovember 14, 2018 0

Big Data in Healthcare

Joseph Woodside shares examples of applied experimental learning in healthcare from his book, "Applied Health Analytics and Informatics Using SAS".

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Mike JanesNovember 13, 2018 0

Check out the SAS Student Series during winter break

SAS is launching the SAS Student Series, which bundles thousands of dollars’ worth of training and certification materials into an affordable package for university students and recent graduates.

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Sanjay MatangeNovember 12, 2018 0

Waterfall Graph with more data for subject

Previously, I have written articles on how we could display more subject response data along with the traditional WaterFall graph showing the best  "Change from Baseline".  This is in response to the desire to see data like treatment duration for each subject in the same graph.  Otherwise, investigators have to

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Rick WicklinNovember 12, 2018 0

Define custom color ramps by using the RANGEATTRMAP statement in GTL

The SGPLOT procedure enables you to use the value of a response variable to color markers or areas in a graph. For example, you can use the COLORRESPONSE= option to define a variable whose values will be used to color markers in a scatter plot or cells in a heat

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Ken GahaganNovember 7, 2018 0

3 questions about implementing SAS Grid Manager and SAS Viya

Migration, version road maps and configurations were the themes of several questions that came up in a recent webinar about combining SAS Grid Manager and SAS Viya. This blog post gives the answers.

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Rick WicklinNovember 5, 2018 0

Fit the Pareto distribution in SAS

Will the real Pareto distribution please stand up? SAS supports three different distributions that are named "Pareto." The Wikipedia page for the Pareto distribution lists five different "Pareto" distributions, including the three that SAS supports. This article shows how to fit the two-parameter Pareto distribution in SAS and discusses the

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Gerhard SvolbaNovember 2, 2018 0

Mein Vater hat den spannendsten Job der Welt, denn er ist ein Data Scientist!

Mein Name ist Daniel und ich bin in der vierten Klasse. Diese Woche wurden die Eltern in meine Schule eingeladen, um uns etwas über ihre Arbeit zu erzählen. Und mein Vater war mit dabei. Am Anfang war ich etwas unsicher, ob ich mich darüber freuen sollte. Denn wenn sein Vortrag

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Sanjay MatangeNovember 1, 2018 0

Text plot can do that

The TEXT plot was introduced with SAS 9.4M2 to facilitate placement of text strings in a graph.  This replaces the MARKERCHAR feature of the SCATTER plot statement, which is still available, but it is better to use TEXT plot in most cases.  The syntax is: text x=column y=column text=column </

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Adam BullockNovember 1, 2018 0

How to automate a data download with PROC HTTP

SAS Technical Support has had several requests from customers who want to use SAS® software to help download their files from a website when there is no application programming interface (API) to do it. This post shows how to automate downloads using PROC HTTP and DATA step, and how to use the HTTP DEBUG statement.

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Rick WicklinOctober 31, 2018 0

A trick to plot groups in PROC SGPLOT

A useful feature in PROC SGPLOT is the ability to easily visualize subgroups of data. Most statements in the SGPLOT procedure support a GROUP= option that enables you to overlay plots of subgroups. When you use the GROUP= option, observations are assigned attributes (colors, line patterns, symbols, ...) that indicate

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Steffen StahlOctober 30, 2018 0

Erstes SAS User Group Meetup: „Am besten gehen die User am nächsten Tag zur Arbeit und legen direkt los“

Vor ein paar Wochen hat das erste deutsche SAS User Group Meetup in Berlin stattgefunden. Dort hatte ich die Gelegenheit, mit Igor Khorlo, Senior Statistical Programmer bei Syneos Health Deutschland und Gründer der SAS User Group Germany (SUGG), über seine Motivation zu sprechen, die Gruppe ins Leben zu rufen –

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