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RSS procARMing SAS Jobs on HP?UX 11.x
White Paper Using ARM with SAS allows a systems administrator to monitor the performance of the entire job or even a single PROC step within a job. In 1996 Application Response Measurement (ARM) was introduced as a way to monitor applications and their... [30 Jun 2008]
Using SAS BI Web Services and PROC SOAP in a Service-Oriented Architecture
White Paper Implementation capabilities include SAS BI Web services; consumption capabilities include PROC SOAP; and administration capabilities include the use of Metadata and container features. Many businesses are just starting to use a Service-Oriented... [31 May 2008]
Creating Complex Reports
White Paper It covers the pros and cons of PROC REPORT, PROC TABULATE, and DATA _NULL_ for each report. This paper is for intermediate SAS programmers who want to see a gallery of complex reports and review the code that produced them. [31 May 2008]
Two-Stage Variable Clustering for Large Data Sets
White Paper To overcome the interpretation problem, principal components (cluster components) are obtained through variable clustering, which was implemented with PROC VARCLUS. However, the PROC VARCLUS implementation is inefficient to deal with high... [31 May 2008]
What Happened to My Data?: Understanding How Results Are Affected When Formatting Is Applied to Classification Variables
White Paper The supporting examples focus on Base SAS reporting procedures, PROC REPORT, PROC TABULATE, PROC SUMMARY, and PROC MEANS. Classification variables are used to group observations that have the same values. [31 May 2008]
Linguistic Collation: Everyone Can Get What They Expect - Sensible Sorting for Global Business Success
White Paper In "Creating Order out of Character Chaos: Collation Capabilities of the SAS System" the authors describe the collation capabilities offered by PROC SORT in SAS and explain their respective applicability, advantages, and the processing... [31 May 2008]
What's New in the 4.2 Releases of SAS Enterprise Guide and the SAS Add-In for Microsoft Office
White Paper This presentation will introduce the user to some of the highlights, including a revamped User Interface (UI) in SAS Enterprise Guide, the ability to open SAS Reports from the SAS Add-In, a new PROC REPORT-based wizard, and much more. [31 May 2008]
Introducing the SAS Code Analyzer
White Paper This paper introduces the PROC SCAPROC procedure, the SAS Code Analyzer that is new in Release 9.2 of Base SAS Software. The paper examines the advantages of using the procedure, its syntax and phases of execution, and the output that the procedure... [31 May 2008]
In the Compute Block: Issues Associated With Using and Naming Variables
White Paper In the compute block of the PROC REPORT step variables can be both created and used. They may be on the incoming data table, they may be computed in the REPORT step, they can be statistical summaries, and they may even be artificially created by... [08 Jan 2008]
An Animated Guide: Proc Transpose
White Paper If one can think about a SAS data set as being made up of columns and rows, one can say Proc Transpose "Flips" the columns of data into rows of data -and also does the reverse (flips rows into columns). [06 Nov 2007]
Making Sense of PROC TABULATE (Updated for SAS9)
White Paper Many beginning SAS programmers have a difficult time understanding the syntax of PROC TABULATE and tend to avoid using the procedure. This paper will explain the syntax of PROC TABULATE and, with examples, show how to grasp the power of PROC TABULATE. [06 Nov 2007]
Text Mining and PROC KDE to Rank Nominal Data
White Paper By definition, nominal data cannot be ranked. However, there are circumstances where it is essential to rank nominal data. Examples of such ranking include ranking hospitals and colleges, defining the "Most livable cities", and conference paper... [06 Nov 2007]
Using PROC NLMIXED and PROC GLMMIX to Analyze Dyadic Data With a Dichotomous Dependent Variable
White Paper Multilevel models have been used for dyadic data; the paper demonstrates the use of PROC NLMIXED and PROC GLIMMIX, and discuss the strengths and weaknesses of this approach in general, and these SAS procedures in particular. [06 Nov 2007]
Group Headers by Template With Optional Columns
White Paper Proc Template is a solution to produce textual report with requirements of complicated group column heading. The authors' reports have a pattern of varying number of columns, so instead of creating one template for a different number of columns... [06 Nov 2007]
A Simple Way to Combine Graphs and Text - DSGI
White Paper Using PROC GPRINT to transport text file into graph file, DSGI can combine these existing graphs and text together in one output. DSGI combines the SAS/Graph procedures of GSLIDE, GREPLAY, and annotate facility to create or add features (includes... [06 Nov 2007]
