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Updates for Data Preparation for Analytics Using SAS
Updates posted on 05June2008
p. 6, first bullet point at top of the page, "… NOTE that are dealing mostly …." Instead of "…NOT that we are dealing…."
p. 8, second half of the page, "What is the" comes already with the first bullet, and can be removed from the second level bullet points.
p. 17, middle of the page, refer to Chapter 23, Scoring and Automation, instead of to Chapter 14.
p. 34, Chapter 4.6.1, replace SIMON with DANIELE at the beginning of the first two paragraphs.
p. 35, Chapter 4.6.6, replace SIMONE with ELIAS in the last sentence of the second paragraph.
p. 58, Table 7.6, header should be: "Multiple-Row-per-Subject data mart for PATIENT and LABORATORY_VALUES data."
p. 72, Chapter 9.3.2 , reference should be to Chapter 14, instead of to Chapter 12.
p. 91, Chapter 11.2.3, first bullet point, note that only on Windows and UNIX machines do numeric variables have a length of 3 bytes at least, it is different on mainframes.
p. 127, middle of the page, should be IF prod{i} = . THEN prod{i}=0; instead of IF prod{i} . THEN prod{i}=0; the equal sign is missing.
p. 142, upper half of the page, at the 2 macro calls of %INTERACT, the parameter should be omitted. %INTERACT(age weight height, quadr=1); and %INTERACT(age weight height, quadr=0); is correct. Note that the code in the SAS program is correct.
p. 224, lower half of the page, in the definition of WoE it should read:
WoE(category) = log(p(event,category)/p(non-event,category)) instead of
WoE(category) = log(p(event,category)/p(non-event/category)).
p. 237, middle of the page, the code should be FEATURE = CATX('=',key,value); instead of FEATURE = CATX('=',_key_,value);
p. 260, first sentence, Ist should be 6.000 Observations instead of 10.000 Observations.