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Chris DeHartJuly 12, 2021 0

The SAS/ACCESS Developer's Corner: SUBCHAR-acteristics

Understanding the problem Working with character data of different encodings across different systems can occasionally result in failures to translate or transcode that data from its source format to a destination format. When using a SAS/ACCESS LIBNAME engine to query DBMS data, this scenario can end up causing errors when

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Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Robert AllisonJuly 8, 2021 0

Plagues and locusts ... or is that cicadas?

I hope you're all doing well, in this year of plagues and locusts! I'm sure I don't even need to mention which plague I'm talking about. But what about the locusts? Are you up on your entomological studies? Follow along, and see if you really know what locusts are... Locusts

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Analytics | Programming Tips

Rick WicklinJuly 7, 2021 0

Simulate multivariate correlated data by using PROC COPULA in SAS

In general, it is hard to simulate multivariate data that has a specified correlation structure. Copulas make that task easier for continuous distributions. A previous article presented the geometry behind a copula and explained copulas in an intuitive way. Although I strongly believe that statistical practitioners should be familiar with

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