Category: SAS

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Alyssa Grube. Oliver Schabenberger, Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Technology Officer The path to leadership and growth isn’t always linear – in fact, it’s often more of a jungle gym. Our own Oliver Schabenberger has experienced this firsthand through his own “accidental” journey to leadership. After studying and working in forest management and then academia, he began his career at SAS as a software developer. That was 18 years ago. Today, he leads almost 11,000 people as Chief Operating Officer and Chief Technology Officer at SAS. Recently, Oliver sat down with Tim Salau, ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Rick Wicklin. A previous article discussed how to solve regression problems in which the parameters are constrained to be a specified constant (such as B1 = 1) or are restricted to obey a linear equation such as B4 = –2*B2. In SAS, you can use the RESTRICT statement in PROC REG to solve restricted least squares problems. However, if a constraint is an INEQUALITY instead of an EQUALITY, then (in general) a least squares method does not solve the problem. Therefore, you cannot use PROC REG to solve problems that have inequality constraints. This ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Mike Gilliland. The practice of business forecasting falls well short of the potential exhibited in academic research and forecasting competitions. Chris Chatfield* noted this in a 1986 editorial in the International Journal of Forecasting, where he called on statisticians to find a better way of communicating the better use of existing methods to practitioners. Fast forward to 2000, when Michael Lawrence** penned another editorial in the IJF, lamenting the lack of progress toward Chatfield's goal, and deploring the lack of research examining the causes. More recently, Morlidge's studies (cited frequently in this blog), show businesses in ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: davidwendt. Misschien heb je het al gehoord: SAS partner Notilyze is genomineerd voor de Computable Awards 2020 in de categorie Services! Met deze prijzen erkent het vakblad Computable bedrijven, projecten en personen die zich het afgelopen jaar hebben onderscheiden in de ICT. SAS is trots dat Notilyze is genomineerd, en het zou helemaal mooi zijn als zij deze felbegeerde ICT-prijs in de wacht slepen! Jij kunt daarbij helpen: de einduitslag wordt namelijk voor 50% bepaald door het publiek. Stemmen dus! Je kunt stemmen op Notilyze onder de categorie “Services”. Stemmen kan tot en met 1 november ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Francois Jaussaud. Je m’appelle Franck. Je suis consultant. Depuis 2003, j’accompagne de grands établissements pour renforcer leurs dispositifs de lutte contre le blanchiment et le financement du terrorisme en déployant des progiciels. 17 ans sont passés, ils fonctionnent toujours. Problème : ils sont devenus des monstres ! Je prends conscience de ma condition : je suis – à mon échelle – un docteur Frankenstein ! Mes Frankenstein », ou la vérité sur les faux-positifs : quand un consultant fait son introspection et repense la collaboration homme+machine pour redonner vie aux métiers de la compliance. Un article ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Josh Morgan. Linking mental health and criminal justice data gets more people the care they need, and keeps them out of jail or prison. Getting people with mental health conditions the help they need is a top priority for many Californians, according to a recent California Health Care Foundation report. In 2004, Golden State voters approved the Mental Health Services Act (MHSA). Enacted into law in January 2005, MHSA has generated approximately $15 billion over the last 15 years for county-based mental health services and programs across the state, including mental illness prevention, early intervention and ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Leonid Batkhan. Before we delve into unquoting SAS character variables let’s briefly review existing SAS functionality related to the character strings quoting/unquoting. %QUOTE and %UNQUOTE macro functions Don’t be fooled by these macro functions’ names. They have nothing to do with quoting or un-quoting character variables’ values. Moreover, they have nothing to do with quoting or un-quoting even macro variables’ values. According to the %QUOTE Macro Function documentation it masks special characters and mnemonic operators in a resolved value at macro execution.  %UNQUOTE Macro Function unmasks all special characters and mnemonic operators so they are interpreted ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Jim Harris. As many people recognize, misconceptions about COVID-19 data and its interpretation can undermine our commitment to making data-informed decisions and taking data-driven actions while combating the pandemic. In this third post in my coronavirus terms series, I’ll revisit and expand upon some of the terms and concepts I’ve covered in previous posts related to dashboard metrics and coronavirus testing. It’s about time (again) There’s a lot of data and metrics about the pandemic. It can be challenging to know what essential indicators to focus on during our efforts to slow coronavirus community spread. I think ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Marcia Surratt. Many examples for performing analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) are available in statistical textbooks, conference papers, and blogs. One of the primary interests for researchers and statisticians is to obtain a graphical representation for the fitted ANCOVA model. This post, co-authored with my SAS Technical Support colleague Kathleen Kiernan, demonstrates how to obtain the statistical analysis for a quadratic ANCOVA model by using the GLM procedure and graphical representation by using the SGPLOT procedure. For the purposes of this blog, the tests for equality of intercepts and slopes have been omitted. For more detailed information ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Suneel Grover. Over the last 20+ years, global society has adopted digital devices at scale, and consumer interaction behaviors continually evolve and mature. As analysts, we're uniquely positioned to notice worldwide trends, country-specific nuances and localized market behaviors that can have significant impact on our brand's business goals. This global scope is more significant now than ever before as the proportion of connected users continues to grow, and the expansion of Internet-enabled devices is undoubtedly a massive catalyst for change. Customer engagement levels vary throughout the journey with a brand, driven by segmented usage patterns across ... Read More