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PC Performance and the SAS System

There is a quote that the author remembers from a few years ago that still rings true - "PC's are to the 90's what cars were to the 50's". People like to see what modifications they can make to their machines to make them run as fast as possible. Optimizing...

Tags: PC, Operating System, SAS System, SAS Institute, PC Performance, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

White papers 2007-12-01

Forecasting Methods - An Overview of Models and Techniques

The SAS System has a powerful suite of tools for analyzing and forecasting data taken over time. An important feature of this or any statistical analysis is that the user have some understanding of the methodology behind the tool, that is, for good analysis the computer program should be more...

Tags: Technique, SAS System, SAS Institute, Forecasting, Sales Force Management, Sales

White papers 2007-05-14

Creating Order Out of Character Chaos: Collation Capabilities of the SAS System

Traditionally, data is ordered to facilitate further processing or to enable to quickly find information in a report or other form of data presentation. The SAS System's primary means of achieving an alternative collating sequence has been to specify a TRANslation TABle TRANTAB, using the PROC SORT SORTSEQ option, with...

Tags: SAS System, SAS Institute, SAS 9.2

White papers 2007-05-14

Introduction to SAS Enterprise Guide 4.1 for Statistical Analysis

The SAS System provides a powerful framework for statistical analysis. It has extensive data manipulation capabilities to prepare for analytic and modeling work. It has reporting tools for presenting results. However, for a new user, learning how to write code and run the appropriate procedures can be daunting. Enterprise Guide...

Tags: Statistical Analysis, SAS System, SAS Institute, Enterprise Guide

White papers 2006-02-28

DATALINES, Sequential Files, CSV, HTML and More - Using INFILE and INPUT Statements to Introduce External Data Into the SAS System

The SAS System has numerous capabilities to store, analyze, report, and present data. However, those features are useless unless that data is stored in, or can be accessed by, the SAS System. This paper is designed to review the INFILE and INPUT statements. It has been set up as a...

Tags: HTML, SAS System, SAS Institute

White papers 2006-02-28

A Strategy for Managing Data Integrity Using SAS

Managing and facilitating data integrity is a critical element when collecting information. Many dollars are spent to actively obtain data, making it imperative to ensure the data is of the highest quality. Even with interactive data entry and other checks performed at time of data entry, it will often fall...

Tags: Strategy, Data Integrity, SAS System, SAS Institute

White papers 2006-02-28

Using the SAS System for Experimental Designs for Multicomponent Interventions in Medicine

The proper design of studies to evaluate multicomponent interventions in medicine permits the estimation of individual component effects. Because each component of an intervention adds to the cost and complexity in clinical trials, selecting the most effective components is critical. This paper illustrates how several methods available in SAS can...

Tags: SAS System, SAS Institute, Intervention

White papers 2006-02-28

Interactive Graphs From the SAS System

The new technologies such as Java Applets and ActiveX Control are embedded and implemented in the SAS system which enables the SAS system to generate interactive graphs. The interactive features are - embedded controls, a programmable menu, scrolling, animation, zooming and panning, data tips, drill-down capability, and bookmarks and hyperlinks....

Tags: SAS System, SAS Institute, Animation

White papers 2006-02-28

Squeezing Information Out of Data

The SAS system offers a superb set of tools for analyzing data. However, the data received from a client may not be as clean as one would like. Prior to version 9, the undesired information was removed out of the variables by a combination of programming and the use of...

Tags: Function, SAS System, SAS Institute

White papers 2006-02-28

Fraud Detection - A Primer for SAS Programmers

Prevention of fraud and abuse has become a major concern of many organizations. The SAS System includes powerful tools for data management, data analysis, and reporting, which can be used in battling against fraud and abuse. This paper will describe some basic methods for detecting possibly fraudulent activities, using Base...

Tags: SAS System, SAS Institute, Programmer

White papers 2006-02-28

ASP.Net and SAS - A New Model for Developing Web-Based SAS System Applications

Microsoft has invested heavily in the .NET architecture as its vision for the future of the Windows platform. One of the primary components of this 'big idea' is the ASP.Net Framework. SAS System features can be utilised from within ASP.Net applications through the SAS Integration Technologies product and this paper...

Tags: Web, Microsoft ASP.NET, SAS System, SAS Institute, Microsoft Corp.

White papers 2005-03-09

CALL EXECUTE: A Powerful Data Management Tool

There are often data management challenges that require automation of code generation as the optimal solution. The SAS System is rich in tools that provide for automated code generation, including the macro facility and the CALL EXECUTE routine. After using CALL EXECUTE to solve some specific tasks, the routine becomes...

Tags: SAS System, SAS Institute, Data Management, Storage, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software

White papers 2005-03-09

Efficiency Considerations Using the SAS System

There are many products being released by SAS Institute that either use an abundance of SAS code, or generate SAS code, or both. The authors' have begun an internal process to assist product developers in reviewing this SAS code for issues of efficiency, host compatibility, performance, and so on. The...

Tags: Author, SAS System, SAS Institute

White papers 2005-03-09

A Sample Web-Based Reporting Container for ODS XML Reports

The SAS system offers a wide variety of tools for reporting needs. From data _null_ to ODS PDF, there are many avenues to produce and surface SAS reports. What is less obvious is what to do with these reports once they are created. This paper describes techniques for building a...

Tags: Web, SAS System, SAS Institute

White papers 2005-03-09

My Friend the SAS Format

The SAS System's FORMAT facilities provide a diverse and powerful array of tools to work with and present the data. By supplying a range of resources to control how the values of data set variables are portrayed in the SAS output (i.e., reports and analyses), SAS Format tools offer something...

Tags: SAS System, SAS Institute

White papers 2005-03-09

Introduction to Using SAS Enterprise Guide for Statistical Analysis

The SAS System provides a powerful framework for statistical analysis. It has extensive data manipulation capabilities to prepare for analytic and modeling work. It has reporting tools for presenting results. However, for a new user, learning how to write code and run the appropriate procedures can be daunting. Enterprise Guide...

Tags: Statistical Analysis, SAS System, SAS Institute, Enterprise Guide

White papers 2004-04-14

Clinical Trial Online - Running SAS on the Web Without SAS/IntrNet

During clinical trial, it is very important for the project management to have the most recent updated clinical trial information. The best solution is dynamic access to clinical trial data: dynamic data management and dynamic data analysis. SAS System almost became a standard programming language in clinical data analysis. With...

Tags: Web, SAS System, Clinical Trial, SAS Institute, SAS/IntrNet Software, Healthcare

White papers 2004-04-14

Why SAS Is the Best Place to Put Your Clinical Data

The SAS System contains an incredible amount of functionality for managing the data files as a database. In most respects, including data storage, data access, and data management, SAS can be considered a database. This paper will review the database functionality available within the SAS System and how this relates...

Tags: SAS System, SAS Institute, Data Management, Storage, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software

White papers 2004-04-14

Additional Resources

Parallels releases Parallels Server for Mac

I almost missed Parallels' announcement of Parallels Server for Mac. I didn't speak with company representatives. All I saw was a press release. It was nearly lost in a huge pile of other mail in my inbox. Although there are several virtual machine software products that support...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Operating System, Virtual Machine, Parallels Server, Parallels Management Console, Toolset, Desktops, Apple Mac OS, Desktop Virtualization, Operating Systems, Servers, Hardware, Software, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-07-24

Managing growth - a followup to yesterday's guest blog

Yesterday, Dean Cycon of Dean's Beans wrote a guest blog for this column on "Starbucks' Dirty Little Secret". The blog is worthy of some followup, as well as some additional information that Dean shared with me about their corporate philosophy. Growth is good for a company,...

Tags: Trader, Blog, Dean Cycon, X2 Development Corp., Strategy, Management, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-07-23