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Rick WicklinJanuary 26, 2022 0

4 ways to find the k smallest and largest data values in SAS

Sometimes it is useful to know the extreme values in data. You might need to know the Top 5 or the Top 10 smallest data values. Or, the Top 5 or Top 10 largest data values. There are many ways to do this in SAS, but this article shows examples

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Rick WicklinJanuary 24, 2022 0

Estimate percentiles in SAS Viya

How can you estimate percentiles in SAS Viya? This article shows how to call the percentile action from PROC CAS to estimate percentiles of variables in a CAS data table. Percentiles and quantiles are essentially the same (the pth quantile is the 100*pth percentile for p in [0, 1]), so

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Programming Tips

Rick WicklinJanuary 20, 2022 0

How often do different statistical tests agree? A simulation study

Here's a fun problem to think about: Suppose that you have two different valid ways to test a statistical hypothesis. For a given sample, will both tests reject or fail to reject the hypothesis? Or might one test reject it whereas the other does not? The answer is that two

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