I was very busy this weekend working on the semi-annual site update (I am SO getting last place in the Search Engine Optimization contest) and starting on my book – Beyond SAS Basics: Tips, Statistics and a Naked Mole Rat and on TOP of all of that, I had to take the world’s most spoiled…
Now, I’m not as extreme as the person who created a SAS Tetris game, (Richard DeVenezia, in case you were wondering) but I still try to do just about everything in SAS, if only to prove that I can do it. Why would someone who has been using SAS for 28 years decide to pick…
I’m doing a workshop at the San Diego SAS users group meeting on Wednesday and had suggested opening the session with a clip of my daughter’s last amateur fight. Someone politely commented, “Uh, I guess that would be okay, if it was, uh, relevant.” Fair question, how can martial arts be related to statistics or…
Yesterday, I talked about using a macro for beginning checks on data quality and I promised to explain it today. So, here we go… options mstored sasmstore = maclib ; If you want to store your macro, you need to use two options in the OPTIONS statement. MSTORED that you want the stored compiled macros…
I will be missing my lovely daughter Ronda’s fight in Calgary next month because I will be attending the National Association of Hispanic Journalists conference in Orlando, Florida, where sports journalist and equally lovely daughter Maria Burns Ortiz will be. It is completely false that this proves Maria is the favorite child. In addition to…
I used to think that a clean house was a sign of a wasted life. After all, why would anyone spend time cleaning when they could be reading, writing, teaching, running, programming, doing judo or drinking margaritas at the pier watching the sun go down? Well, I still don’t alphabetize my spices or clean the…
The new structural equation modeling for JMP is pretty cool. It’s unfortunate that it requires both JMP and SAS/STAT to run it, the cost of the two combined being so expensive that you pretty much have to work for a huge organization that can afford a site license for both or sell a kidney to…
I had a lot of questions about structural equation modeling with JMP and when I was in Las Vegas at SAS Global Forum a while back, I was able finally to hook up with* speak to Wayne Watson and get almost all of my questions answered. This is Wayne. You should look for him because…
Anyone who tells you they know all of SAS is like that creepy guy at the fraternity party who swears that his father is the Duke of Canada, that is, they have a perception of themselves that is not in screaming distance of contact with reality. Even though I have been using SAS for decades,…
The first cool thing you should know about Dr. Patricia Berglund is that she and several others put their slides and more up at the SAS Global Forum take-out section. That is NOT, contrary to what you might believe, a place where you can pick up some really good Chinese food to eat while listening…