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Results of a data-driven simulation in which parameters are stored in a file and processed by a SAS program

Rick WicklinSeptember 27, 2017 0

Data-driven simulation

In a large simulation study, it can be convenient to have a "control file" that contains the parameters for the study. My recent article about how to simulate multivariate normal clusters demonstrates a simple example of this technique. The simulation in that article uses an input data set that contains

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Analytics | Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Robert AllisonSeptember 25, 2017 0

The 'virtual wall' along the US/Mexican border

Recent news reports indicate that the number of illegal immigrants apprehended along the US/Mexican border has dropped significantly since Trump took office. So, even though Trump hasn't had time to build a physical wall, perhaps there's a virtual wall in place now (built from the change in attitudes)? I've seen

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Government | Travel

Analytics | Programming Tips

Rick WicklinSeptember 25, 2017 0

Simulate multivariate normal data in SAS by using PROC SIMNORMAL

My article about Fisher's transformation of the Pearson correlation contained a simulation. The simulation uses the RANDNORMAL function in SAS/IML software to simulate multivariate normal data. If you are a SAS programmer who does not have access to SAS/IML software, you can use the SIMNORMAL procedure in SAS/STAT software to

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Analytics | Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Robert AllisonSeptember 20, 2017 0

Amusement park attendance (could Wikipedia be wrong?!?)

How do the North American amusement parks compare in popularity? If this question was to come up during a lunch discussion, I bet someone would pull out their smartphone and go to Wikipedia for the answer. But is Wikipedia the definitive answer - how can we tell if Wikipedia is wrong?

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Sports & Entertainment | Travel

Data Visualization | Learn SAS | Programming Tips

Warren F. KuhfeldSeptember 18, 2017 0

Advanced ODS Graphics: Inserting a graph into a graph

You can use SG Annotation (and its GTL equivalent) to display one graph inside another.

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Programming Tips

Leonid BatkhanSeptember 15, 2017 0

Using a web browser as a SAS code editor

Whether you are a SAS code creator, a blogger, a technical writer, an editor-in-chief, an executive, a secretary, a developer or programmer in any programming language or simply someone who uses computer or hand-held device for writing, you need to read this blog post – your life is about to

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Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Marcia SurrattSeptember 15, 2017 0

PROC SGPLOT: There’s an ATTRS for that

The SGPLOT procedure (as well as other ODS Graphics procedures) does a great job of creating nice- looking output with very little coding. However, there are times when you want to make adjustments to the output's appearance. For those occasions, we have an ATTRS for that! The statements in PROC

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Advanced Analytics | Learn SAS | Programming Tips

Simulate clustered data from a Gaussian mixture distribution

Rick WicklinSeptember 13, 2017 0

Simulate multivariate clusters in SAS

This article shows how to simulate data from a mixture of multivariate normal distributions, which is also called a Gaussian mixture. You can use this simulation to generate clustered data. The adjacent graph shows three clusters, each simulated from a four-dimensional normal distribution. Each cluster has its own within-cluster covariance,

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Analytics | Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Robert AllisonSeptember 12, 2017 0

Where do hurricanes strike Florida? (110 years of data)

With Hurricane Irma recently pummeling pretty much the entire state of Florida, I got to wondering where past hurricanes have hit the state. Let's get some data, and figure out how to best analyze it using SAS software! I did a bit of web searching, and found the following map

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Analytics | Programming Tips

Rick WicklinSeptember 11, 2017 0

Symbolic derivatives in SAS

Did you know that you can get SAS to compute symbolic (analytical) derivatives of simple functions, including applying the product rule, quotient rule, and chain rule? SAS can form the symbolic derivatives of single-variable functions and partial derivatives of multivariable functions. Furthermore, the derivatives are output in a form that

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Programming Tips

Chris Hemedinger

Chris HemedingerSeptember 8, 2017 0

Using FILENAME ZIP and FINFO to list the details in your ZIP files

It's time to share another tip about working with ZIP files in SAS. Since I first wrote about FILENAME ZIP to list and extract files from a ZIP archive, readers have been asking for more. Specifically, they want additional details about the files that are contained in a ZIP, including

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Analytics | Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Robert AllisonSeptember 8, 2017 0

What cities are in Hurricane Irma's path?

As Hurricane Irma makes its way through the Caribbean, and heads towards the United States, the big question on everyone's mind ... is the hurricane going to hit my city? Or, as some people like to say, "should I buy milk & bread?" Let's analyze & map some data to

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Government | Travel

Analytics | Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Robert AllisonSeptember 7, 2017 0

How rare are Category 5 hurricanes?

I suppose we've all been watching Hurricane Irma rip through the Caribbean like a giant buzzsaw blade, with wind speeds over 180mph. This is one of those rare Category 5 storms. But just how rare are Category 5 hurricanes? According to the Wikipedia page, hurricanes with wind speeds >=157mph are

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Government | Insurance

Learn SAS | Programming Tips

Rick WicklinSeptember 7, 2017 0

Construct polynomial effects in SAS regression models

If you use SAS regression procedures, you are probably familiar with the "stars and bars" notation, which enables you to construct interaction effects in regression models. Although you can construct many regression models by using that classical notation, a friend recently reminded me that the EFFECT statement in SAS provides

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Advanced Analytics | Programming Tips

Makoto Unemi (畝見真)September 4, 2017 0

SAS Viyaで線形回帰

SAS Viyaで線形回帰を行う方法を紹介します。言語はPythonを使います。 SAS Viyaで線形回帰を行う方法には大きく以下の手法が用意されています。多項回帰：　simpleアクションセットで提供。一般化線形回帰または一般線形回帰：　regressionアクションセットで提供。機械学習で回帰：　各種機械学習用のアクションセットで提供。今回は単純なサインカーブを利用して、上記3種類の回帰モデルを作ってみます。【サインカーブ】 -4≦x<4の範囲でサインカーブを作ります。普通に $$y = sin(x) $$を算出しても面白みがないので、乱数を加減して以下のようなデータを作りました。これをトレーニングデータとします。青い点線が $$y=sin(x)$$ の曲線、グレーの円は $$y=sin(x)$$ に乱数を加減したプロットです。グレーのプロットの中心を青い点線が通っていることがわかります。今回はグレーのプロットをトレーニングデータとして線形回帰を行います。グレーのプロットはだいぶ散らばって見えますが、回帰モデルとしては青い点線のように中心を通った曲線が描けるはずです。トレーニングデータのデータセット名は "sinx" とします。説明変数は "x"、ターゲット変数は "y" になります。各手法で生成したモデルで回帰を行うため、-4≦x<4 の範囲で0.01刻みで"x" の値をとった "rangex" というデータセットも用意します。まずはCASセッションを生成し、それぞれのデータをCASにアップロードします。 import swat host = "localhost" port = 5570 user = "cas" password = "p@ssw0rd"

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Analytics | Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Robert AllisonSeptember 1, 2017 0

Where do modern day pirates attack?

International Talk Like a Pirate Day is Sept 19 ... which always gets me thinking and wondering about modern-day pirates. Most movies usually focus on pirates from the Golden Age of piracy (a couple hundred years ago), when pirates typically stole ships and booty (treasure). But modern day pirates usually board

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Government | Travel

Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Warren F. KuhfeldAugust 30, 2017 0

Advanced ODS Graphics: Examining and processing templates

This post shows a variety of techniques including how to use PROC TEMPLATE and the SOURCE statement, PROC SGPLOT with multiple Y-axis tables, create comparable axes in two side-by-side graphs, create a broken axis, write and use a table template that wraps text, and find and display examples of certain statements in graph templates and fonts in style templates.

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Programming Tips

Chris Hemedinger

Chris HemedingerAugust 25, 2017 0

Using Notepad++ as your SAS code editor

News flash: My favorite SAS code editor is SAS Enterprise Guide. However, my favorite general purpose text editor is Notepad++, and I often find myself using that tool for viewing SAS log files and for making small modifications to SAS programs. Judging from the popularity of this SAS Support Communities

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Analytics | Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Robert AllisonAugust 25, 2017 0

When's the next total solar eclipse?

The U.S. was really fortunate in having the recent total solar eclipse pass through so many of its states! This gave lots of people an opportunity to see it, with just a short (or moderate) drive. I think a little kid spoke for all of us when they said "Let's

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Learn SAS | Programming Tips | Students & Educators

Matt ScicchitanoAugust 24, 2017 0

How to prepare for a SAS Certification Exam

I have been working in the field of Professional Certification and Licensure for roughly 10 years. In that time, I've worked with and observed close to 40 IT certification programs and there has been a recurring question I've encountered at each stop. While it is often phrased differently, it means mostly the same

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Programming Tips

Rick WicklinAugust 23, 2017 0

The arithmetic-geometric mean

All statisticians are familiar with the classical arithmetic mean. Some statisticians are also familiar with the geometric mean. Whereas the arithmetic mean of n numbers is the sum divided by n, the geometric mean of n nonnegative numbers is the n_th root of the product of the numbers. The geometric

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Learn SAS | Programming Tips

Kevin RussellAugust 21, 2017 0

Always save your code when creating a stored compiled macro

The stored compiled macro facility enables you to compile and save your macro definition in a permanent catalog in a library that you specify. The macro is compiled only once. When you call the macro in the current and subsequent SAS® sessions, SAS executes the compiled code from the macro

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Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Robert AllisonAugust 21, 2017 0

Can you see these spots (after viewing the eclipse)?

Hopefully if you're viewing the eclipse today, you'll be using one of the safe methods that won't harm your eyes! ... But if you're somewhat of a trickster, here's an optical illusion you can send your friends after the eclipse, that might make them wonder (just for a second) if

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Rick WicklinAugust 21, 2017 0

6 tips for timing the performance of algorithms

When you implement a statistical algorithm in a vector-matrix language such as SAS/IML, R, or MATLAB, you should measure the performance of your implementation, which means that you should time how long a program takes to analyze data of varying sizes and characteristics. There are some general tips that can

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Programming Tips

Chris Hemedinger

Chris HemedingerAugust 18, 2017 0

Code debugging and program history in SAS Enterprise Guide

SAS programmers have high expectations for their coding environment, and why shouldn't they? Companies have a huge investment in their SAS code base, and it's important to have tools that help you understand that code and track changes over time. Few things are more satisfying as a SAS program that

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Programming Tips

Gerry NelsonAugust 17, 2017 0

SAS Viya sharing credentials for database access

SAS Viya deployments use credentials for accessing databases and other third-party products that require authentication. In this blog post, I will look at how this sharing of credentials is implemented in SAS Environment Manager. In SAS Viya, domains are used to store the: Credentials required to access external data sources. Identities

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Analytics | Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Robert AllisonAugust 17, 2017 0

Mapping out the next robot invasion!

Robots - everyone has probably been fascinated by the idea of robots at one time or another. From the early science fiction robots (such as Klaatu's robot Gort) to the mid-1980s movie robots (like Johnny 5), they have been portrayed in many different ways in fiction. These days, with the

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Analytics | Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Robert AllisonAugust 15, 2017 0

Tracking floods and droughts in Jordan Lake, NC

If you know me, you probably know that I spend a lot of time on the water. I like speed paddling (dragon boat, outrigger canoe, surfski, and racing SUP), and I also have a big pontoon boat at Jordan Lake where I try to go fishing at least once a

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Energy & Utilities | Government | Sports & Entertainment

Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Warren F. KuhfeldAugust 14, 2017 0

Advanced ODS: Controlling precisely what output is displayed

PROC SGPLOT displays titles inside the graph. If you want to display a title inside the graph and a different title outside the graph, you can use the ODS LAYOUT or the GTL. The ODS LAYOUT gives you precise control over your output and enables you to display multiple graphs and tables in each page.

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Analytics | Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Robert AllisonAugust 14, 2017 0

How far are you from North Korea?

With North Korea's growing missile capabilities in the news lately, I thought it would be interesting to create a map showing how far (or close) they are from other parts of the world. I first did a few searches on the Web, to see what maps are already out there.

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