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Applications Development Operations Research SAS® Enterprise Guide® Implementation and Usage
Applied Business Intelligence Pharma and Health Care Providers SAS® ®Futures
Coders' Corner Planning and Support SAS® ®IT Management
Customer Intelligence Posters SAS® Workshop Series
Data Management Programming: Beyond the Basics Social Media and Networking
Data Mining and Text Analytics Programming: Foundations and Fundamentals Statistics and Data Analysis
Financial Services Reporting and Information Visualization Systems Architecture and Administration
Hands-on Workshops Retail Travel, Hospitality and Entertainment


Applications Development   (Download entire section)


Paper 001-2012:

 Lal, Rajesh; Ranga, Raghavender

 

How Readable and Comprehensible Is a SAS® Program? A Programmatic Approach to Getting an Insight into a Program

 

Paper 002-2012:

 Henderson, Don; Carpenter, Art

 

Macro Programming Best Practices: Styles, Guidelines and Conventions Including the Rationale Behind Them

 

Paper 003-2012:

 Figallo-Monge, Manuel

 

Macro Design and Usage in A Multi-Tier Architecture for ETL and Google Visualization API Integration

 

Paper 004-2012:

 Rhoads, Michael

 

Use the Full Power of SAS® in Your Function-Style Macros

 

Paper 005-2012:

 Martell, Carol

 

A Picture Is Worth a Lot of PUTs

 

Paper 006-2012:

 Kurch, Benno F.

 

ODS PDF and RTF Application Development: Steps to Ensure Success and Examples of Useful Coding Techniques

 

Paper 008-2012:

 Snyder, Ryan; Hall, Johnston P.

 

A Guide for Connecting Java to SAS® Data Sets

 

Paper 009-2012:

 Curat, Guillaume

 

Integrating Your Java Web Application into the SAS® 9.2 or SAS® 9.3 Enterprise Business Intelligence Environment

 

Paper 010-2012:

 Aanderud, Patricia S.; Hall, Angela

 

Get Your "Fast Pass" to Building Business Intelligence with SAS® and Google Analytics

 

Paper 011-2012:

 Schulz, Falko

 

Mobilizing Your SAS® Business Analytic Reports

 

Paper 012-2012:

 Beaver, James L.; Scroggins, Tobin E.

 

Tracking and Reporting Account Referral Activity Using Hash Tables and SAS® Business Intelligence

 

Paper 013-2012:

 Benjamin Jr, William E.

 

Yes! SAS® ExcelXP WILL NOT Create a Microsoft Excel Graph, but SAS Users Can Command Microsoft Excel to Automatically Create Graphs from SAS ExcelXP

 

Paper 015-2012:

 Schikore, Daniel

 

Custom Analysis and Reporting with the JMP® Application Builder

 

Paper 016-2012:

 Jiang, Songtao; Liao, Hsini T.

 

Automated Process for Routine Clinical and Safety Data Monitoring Reports: An Integration of EDC Database, Microsoft Outlook, and SAS®

 

Paper 017-2012:

 D®silets, Karine

 

SAS® IOM and Your .Net Application Made Easy

 

Paper 018-2012:

 Jagtap, Arvind

 

Integrating Enterprise Search with Various Clients

 

Paper 417-2012:

 Nelson, Gregory; Zhou, Jay

 

Good Programming Practices: Creating Robust Programs

 

Paper 434-2012:

 Eberhardt, Peter

 

SAS® in the Office - IT Works

 

Applied Business Intelligence   (Download entire section)


Paper 019-2012:

 Schulz, Falko; Hatcher, Diane; Sparano, Steve

 

De Rigueur: Adding Process to Your Business Analytics Environment

 

Paper 020-2012:

 Overton, Stephen M.

 

Lost in Wonderland? Methodology for a Guided Drill-Through Analysis Out of the Rabbit Hole

 

Paper 021-2012:

 Garrett, Guy R.

 

How to Create a Business Intelligence Strategy

 

Paper 022-2012:

 McQuiggan, Scott W.; Coyle, David A.; Thorne, Gregory M.; Sabourin, Philippe P.

 

BI at Your Fingertips: Creating Immersive Mobile Reports with SAS® Visual Designer

 

Paper 023-2012:

 Kincaid, Chuck; Vanderlinden, Mike

 

The Emergence of Patterns in SAS® Usage and Infrastructure

 

Paper 024-2012:

 Chitale, Anand V.; Barnhart, Mike

 

A New Outlook into Your Business

 

Paper 025-2012:

 Zhang, Tony; Jin, Ying

 

Managing Multiple Languages with a Single Cube Using SAS® 9.3

 

Paper 026-2012:

 Petrova, Tatyana

 

SAS® OLAP Cube Tuning and Query Performance Optimization

 

Paper 027-2012:

 Patel, Paresh M.

 

Custom Rollup: When the Cube®s Default Behavior Doesn®t Do the Right Job!

 

Paper 028-2012:

 Sivertson, Cheryl

 

At Your Self-Service: One Organization®s Journey from Mainframe Reporting to Enterprise Business Intelligence

 

Paper 029-2012:

 Varney, Brian

 

Preparing for a SAS® EBI Platform Deployment or Migration

 

Paper 030-2012:

 Hallquist, Richard R.; Coles, Dragos; Gallego, Lorrie

 

Making it Happen: Using SAS® to Implement Business Intelligence and Analytics in Small and Midsize Organizations

 

Paper 031-2012:

 Bogard, Matt T.; James, Chris; Helbig, Tuesdi; Huff, Gina

 

Using SAS® Enterprise BI and SAS® Enterprise Miner® to Reduce Student Attrition

 

Paper 032-2012:

 Vanderlinden, Mike

 

SAS® BI Content Syndication with the REST Framework

 

Paper 033-2012:

 Levine, Fred

 

Beyond Star Schema: Exploring the Next Query Generation with the SAS® Enterprise BI Server

 

Paper 034-2012:

 Choy, Justin

 

Visualizing Data Techniques, Including Autocharting and Big Data

 

Paper 035-2012:

 Parsons, Natalie; McQuiggan, Scott W.

 

Van Gogh Your Data: Data Visualization Methods with SAS® Business Intelligence

 

Paper 036-2012:

 Beese, Tim; Granger, Greg

 

Excelling with Excel

 

Paper 038-2012:

 Chitale, Anand V.

 

Modernize with SAS® Dashboards: Go Beyond a Collection of Gauges

 

Coders' Corner   (Download entire section)


Paper 039-2012:

 Miller, Ethan

 

One Flip, Two Flip, Fat File Flat File

 

Paper 040-2012:

 Tabachneck, Arthur S.; Kastin, Matthew J.; Shan, Xia K.

 

Sometimes One Needs an Option with Unusual Dates

 

Paper 041-2012:

 Wainwright-Zimmerman, Andrea

 

Intelligent PROC SORT NODUPKEY

 

Paper 042-2012:

 Pande, Yogesh

 

Log Checks Made Easy

 

Paper 043-2012:

 Polak, Leonard

 

It's Now Your Project®Clean It Up and Make It Shine

 

Paper 044-2012:

 Bost, Christopher J.

 

Magic Spells with SAS®

 

Paper 046-2012:

 Reece Harrington, Kristen

 

Beep, Beep, Beep, Back It Up! A Foolproof Approach to Archiving with No Copying

 

Paper 047-2012:

 Thornton, Patrick; Barbalau, Iuliana

 

Working the System: Our Best SAS® Options

 

Paper 048-2012:

 Ladds, John F.

 

Yes, We Can... Save SAS® Formats

 

Paper 049-2012:

 Rosenbloom, Mary F.; Lafler, Kirk Paul

 

Best Practices: Clean House to Avoid Hangovers

 

Paper 051-2012:

 Eckler, Lisa

 

Generation Why: How Generation Data Sets Can Help

 

Paper 052-2012:

 Foty, Fuad J.

 

The DOW Loop: A Smarter Approach to Your Existing Code

 

Paper 055-2012:

 Atienza, Philamer M.

 

Ethnicity and Race: When Your Output Isn't What You Expected

 

Paper 056-2012:

 Kezik, Julie M.; Hill, Melissa E.

 

Increase your OUTPUT with PROC MEANS and PROC FREQ

 

Paper 057-2012:

 Koo, Kai

 

A SAS® Macro to Zip and Unzip Files in MS Windows without Additional External Data Archiving Software

 

Paper 058-2012:

 Varney, Brian

 

Inventory Your Files Using SAS®

 

Paper 059-2012:

 Yu, Hsiwei; Njuguna, Kamau

 

Locally Visible, Remote Data and Format

 

Paper 060-2012:

 Swenson, Chris

 

Standardized Macro Programs for Macro Variable Manipulation

 

Paper 061-2012:

 Hennessey, John

 

How to Use SAS/CONNECT® to Get Your Mainframe to Behave Like a Modern Computer in Your New Business Intelligence Platform

 

Paper 062-2012:

 Grandits, Greg; Thompson, Greg

 

A Macro to Summarize and Generate a Report of Variables on a SAS® Data Set

 

Paper 063-2012:

 Hinson, Joseph W.; Coughlin, Margaret M.

 

Deciphering PROC COMPARE Codes: The Use of the bAND Function

 

Paper 064-2012:

 Rosenbloom, Mary F.; Lafler, Kirk Paul

 

Assigning a User-Defined Macro to a Function Key

 

Paper 065-2012:

 Mendoza, George G.; Singh, Subhashree

 

Using Pre-Formatted Microsoft Excel Templates with SAS®

 

Paper 066-2012:

 Huang, Chao

 

Create Multi-Sheet Excel Workbook for Large Data Sets by SAS® and VBA

 

Paper 067-2012:

 Palanca, Ronald

 

Excel Tool for Coding

 

Paper 068-2012:

 Levy, Jason

 

PROC REPORT: Dynamic Column Headings

 

Paper 069-2012:

 Sempel, Hans

 

Splitting Data Sets on Unique Values: a Macro That Does It All

 

Paper 070-2012:

 Zhang, Jingxian

 

Techniques for Generating Dynamic Code from SAS® DICTIONARY Data

 

Paper 071-2012:

 Zhang, Sijian

 

ODS Report Writing Interface Makes Our Reporting Simple and Better

 

Paper 072-2012:

 Murphy, William C.

 

Finding Your Way Around a SAS® Generated Report

 

Paper 073-2012:

 Zhang, Sijian

 

Let the DATA Step Drive the Report Assembly Line

 

Paper 074-2012:

 Hume, James D.

 

Uploading Your IPEDS Data Electronically Using SAS®

 

Paper 075-2012:

 Busby, Philip James

 

A Simple Way of Importing from a REST Web Service into SAS® in Three Lines of Code

 

Paper 076-2012:

 Hummel, Andrew

 

Using SAS® and ZIP Codes to Create a Nationwide First Responders Directory

 

Paper 077-2012:

 Li, Mei; Zeng, Zemin

 

Using DDE and VBA Techniques to Import Data from Microsoft Word Tables in Programming Specification Files into SAS

 

Paper 078-2012:

 Hummel, Andrew

 

Sending E-mails in Your Sleep

 

Paper 079-2012:

 Erinjeri, Jinson

 

A Perfect Case of Capturing Data from Related Web Pages

 

Paper 081-2012:

 Xiao, Yang; Meng, Xiangxiang

 

Customizing ODS Graphical Output for SAS/STAT® Procedures

 

Paper 083-2012:

 Cano, Gabe

 

Convert Your Old Plots and Charts to New SG Plots and Charts: Here's How

 

Paper 084-2012:

 Conway, Ted

 

%SPARKY: A SAS® Macro for Creating Excel Sparklines

 

Paper 085-2012:

 Puttabasavaiah, Suneetha

 

Adding Count as a Data Label in a Scatter Plot

 

Paper 086-2012:

 Poppe, Frank; Van Antwerpen, Andres

 

Have Your Web Reports Remember the Filters of Your Users

 

Paper 087-2012:

 Perry, Isabel H.

 

Black Box PROCs: PROC LOGISTIC Discovered

 

Paper 088-2012:

 Wang, Zhiwei

 

Optimized 1:N Case-Control Match Using SAS

 

Paper 089-2012:

 Shu, Amos

 

Utilize Dummy Datasets in Clinical Statistical Programming

 

Paper 090-2012:

 Roehl, William G.

 

Using SAS® to Get a Date: Integrating Google Calendar®s API with SAS®

 

Paper 091-2012:

 Roy, Ash; Na, Yingbo

 

Batch Production of Driving Distances and Times Using SAS® and Web Map APIs

 

Paper 092-2012:

 Huang, Chao; Meng, Xiangxiang

 

Multidimensional Scaling on ZIP Codes

 

Paper 093-2012:

 Collins, Stacey D.

 

Three Simple Steps to Recovering and Inserting Data Using Do Loops, Indexed Macro Variables, and PROC SQL Update Statements

 

Paper 094-2012:

 Huang, Zhongwen; Hou, John

 

Managing Analytic Processes with Paired SAS® Utility Macros

 

Paper 095-2012:

 Asrani, Deepak G.

 

SAS® Output Delivery System ExcelXP Tagset: Customizing Cell Patterns, Borders, and Indention

 

Paper 096-2012:

 Choy, Murphy

 

Translating Foreign Language in SAS® with Google Translate

 

Paper 097-2012:

 Jokinen, Riku E.

 

How to Dynamically Conditionalize a SAS® Data Integration Studio Job

 

Paper 098-2012:

 Swenson, Chris

 

An Advanced, Multi-Featured Macro Program for Reviewing Logs

 

Paper 099-2012:

 Palan, Urvir

 

Using SAS® to Manage SAS® Work Area Usage

 

Paper 100-2012:

 Sukhwani, Sumit; Chakraborty, Goutam; Garla, Satish

 

Analysis of Clickstream Data Using SAS®

 

Paper 101-2012:

 Faria, Plinio

 

How to Measure the SAS® BI Audience and Discover Information Needs

 

Paper 102-2012:

 Yaraghi, Niam; Kishore, Rajiv; Chen, Rui

 

Mining and Merging DATAMONITOR and WRDS Databases with SAS®

 

Paper 428-2012:

 Milum, Jenine

 

PROC FORMAT, a Speedy Alternative to Sort/Sort/Merge

 

Paper 429-2012:

 Tabachneck, Arthur S.; Klein, William J.

 

Using SAS® to Build Web Pages Linking Photographs with Google Maps

 

Paper 436-2012:

 Brucken, Nancy

 

Your Place or Mine: Data-Driven Summary Statistic Precision

 

Customer Intelligence   (Download entire section)


Paper 103-2012:

 Baer, Darius

 

CSI: Customer Segmentation Intelligence for Increasing Profits

 

Paper 104-2012:

 Pantangi, Anil K.; Chakraborty, Goutam

 

Classification of Customers® Textual Responses via Application of Topic Mining

 

Paper 105-2012:

 Schultz, Stephen K.

 

Using SAS® and Vertica to Increase Online Effectiveness and Revenues

 

Paper 106-2012:

 Pinheiro, Carlos Andre R.

 

Community Detection to Identify Fraud Events in Telecommunications Networks

 

Paper 107-2012:

 Marianne, Estelle; Merry, Nick; Au, Wendy

 

Customer Experience Modeling

 

Paper 108-2012:

 Kubiak, Roman

 

Net Lift Model for Effective Direct Marketing Campaigns at 1800flowers.com

 

Paper 109-2012:

 Tsuboi, Toshi

 

Better, Consistent Customer Experience from Analytically Based Real-Time Decisions

 

Data Management   (Download entire section)


Paper 110-2012:

 Rausch, Nancy; Ames, Michael; Hazejager, Wilbram

 

What's New in SAS® Data Management

 

Paper 112-2012:

 Overton, Stephen M.

 

Developing a Flexible ETL Process to Let SAS® Capture Data Changes Efficiently in a Data Warehouse and Clean Up the Mess

 

Paper 113-2012:

 Nelson, Gregory

 

Best Practices for Managing and Monitoring SAS® Data Management Solutions

 

Paper 114-2012:

 Jones, Adrian

 

How Does SAS® In-Database Analytics Impact Data Management?

 

Paper 115-2012:

 Plemmons, Howard; Ames, Michael

 

What's New in SAS/ACCESS® and Process Improvements That You Apply to Your DBMS

 

Paper 116-2012:

 Bentley, John

 

Using SAS® to Move Data between Servers

 

Paper 117-2012:

 Jain, Adish; Bachtell, Kate

 

Reordering Values within Observations: Beyond CALL SORTC(N)

 

Paper 118-2012:

 Havens-McColgan, John

 

Applications of PROC GEOCODE and Incorporation of Census Block-Level Data

 

Paper 119-2012:

 Schacherer, Christopher W.

 

The FILENAME Statement: Interacting with the World Outside of SAS®

 

Paper 120-2012:

 Kilhullen, Michael

 

Developing Custom Metadata Reports for SAS® Data Integration Studio

 

Paper 121-2012:

 Zhu, Qiaohao; Ghosh, Sunita

 

Accessing and Extracting Data from the Internet Using SAS®

 

Paper 122-2012:

 Roesch, Amanda

 

Matching Data Using Sounds-Like Operators and SAS® Compare Functions

 

Paper 123-2012:

 Azimaee, Mahmoud

 

Trend Analysis: An Automated Data Quality Approach for Large Health Administrative Databases

 

Paper 124-2012:

 Le, Binh C.; Pham, Huong T.

 

A Simple Yet Effective Way to Perform a Variable Cross Walk Between Multiple Data Sets

 

Paper 125-2012:

 Hazejager, Wilbram

 

Evolving from Data Management to Master Data Management

 

Paper 431-2012:

 Overton, Stephen M.

 

10,000 Leagues of Data... Divide and Conquer OLAP Cubes: Best Practices for High Volumes of Data

 

Data Mining and Text Analytics   (Download entire section)


Paper 126-2012:

 Levine, Jonathan

 

Developing a Predictive Model for Customer Trip Purpose to Be Integrated into Enterprise Strategy and Analytics

 

Paper 127-2012:

 Shah, Yogen

 

Use of Cutoff and SAS Code Nodes in SAS® Enterprise Miner® to Determine Appropriate Probability Cutoff Point for Decision Making with Binary Target Models

 

Paper 128-2012:

 Gonzalez, Andres F.; Correa Bahnsen, Alejandro; Nieto, Ana C.; Amezquita, Darwin A.

 

Constructing a Credit Risk Scorecard Using Predictive Clusters

 

Paper 129-2012:

 Brown, Iain L.

 

An Experimental Comparison of Classification Techniques for Imbalanced Credit Scoring Data Sets Using SAS® Enterprise Miner®

 

Paper 130-2012:

 Garla, Satish; Gaeth, Gary; Chakraborty, Goutam

 

Comparison of K-Means, Normal Mixtures and Probabilistic-D Clustering for B2B Segmentation Using Customers® Perceptions

 

Paper 131-2012:

 Sykes, Jenn

 

Predicting Electoral Outcomes with SAS® Sentiment Analysis and SAS® Forecast Studio

 

Paper 132-2012:

 Schubert, Sascha; Haller, Susan ; Lee, Taiyeong

 

It®s About Time: Discrete Time Survival Analysis using SAS® Enterprise Miner®

 

Paper 133-2012:

 Hampton, Jessica

 

Dickens vs. Hemingway: Text Analysis and Readability Statistics in Base SAS®

 

Paper 134-2012:

 Rai, Kulwant

 

Combine Data Sets Using Inexact Character Variables in SAS®

 

Paper 135-2012:

 Shaik, Zubair; Garla, Satish; Chakraborty, Goutam

 

SAS® Since 1976: An Application of Text Mining to Reveal Trends

 

Paper 136-2012:

 Lakkaraju, Praveen; Sethi, Saratendu

 

Correlating the Analysis of Opinionated Texts Using SAS® Text Analytics with Application of Sabermetrics to Cricket Statistics

 

Paper 137-2012:

 Duling, David; Thompson, Wayne; Dean, Jared

 

A New Age of Data Mining in the High-Performance World

 

Financial Services   (Download entire section)


Paper 138-2012:

 Adkins, Tony; Cokins, Gary

 

Applying Analytics to High-Performance Customer Profitability Models in Financial Services

 

Paper 140-2012:

 Chen, Wei; Cai, Liping; Skoglund, Jimmy

 

Building an Optimal Execution Plan for Liquidity Management Using SAS®

 

Paper 141-2012:

 van Berkel, Anthony J.; Siddiqi, Naeem

 

Building WOE Binned LGD Scorecards using SAS® Enterprise Miner®

 

Paper 142-2012:

 Huang, Ling

 

Using PROC GAM to Forecast Claims Reserves in the Runoff Triangles

 

Paper 143-2012:

 Xu, Ting; Qiu, Hao; Liu, Shibin

 

Global Risk Management: How SAS® Manages Financial Risk According to Diverse Financial Regulations

 

Paper 144-2012:

 York, John; Wong, Doris; Zaratsian, Dan

 

Becoming the Smartest Guys in the Room: An Analysis of the Enron Emails Using an Integration of Text Analytics and Case Management

 

Paper 435-2012:

 Ruotolo, James

 

Combating Insurance Claims Fraud

 

Hands-on Workshops   (Download entire section)


Paper 145-2012:

 Fecht, Marje; Dhillon, Rupinder

 

SAS® Enterprise Guide® 4.3: Finally a Programmer®s Tool

 

Paper 146-2012:

 Eberhardt, Peter; Kong, Louanna

 

The Armchair Quarterback: Writing SAS® Code for the Perfect Pivot (Table, That Is)

 

Paper 147-2012:

 Eberhardt, Peter

 

The SAS® Hash Object: It®s Time to .find() Your Way Around

 

Paper 148-2012:

 Villacorte, Renato

 

Go Beyond the Wizard with Data-Driven Programming

 

Paper 149-2012:

 Williams, Christianna

 

Queries, Joins, and WHERE Clauses, Oh My!! Demystifying PROC SQL

 

Paper 150-2012:

 DelGobbo, Vince

 

An Introduction to Creating Multi-Sheet Microsoft Excel Workbooks the Easy Way with SAS®
Download ZIP file

 

Paper 151-2012:

 Carpenter, Art

 

Doing More with the SAS® Display Manager: From Editor to ViewTable - Options and Tools You Should Know

 

Paper 152-2012:

 De Mars, AnnMaria

 

SAS® Enterprise Guide® with SAS® On-Demand for Academics: Everything You Need to Know After ""It's Free""

 

Paper 153-2012:

 Matange, Sanjay

 

Quick Results with ODS Graphics Designer

 

Paper 154-2012:

 Kincaid, Chuck

 

Using SAS® ODS Graphics

 

Paper 155-2012:

 Waller, Jennifer

 

How to Perform and Interpret Chi-Square and T-Tests

 

Paper 156-2012:

 Dorfman, Paul M.; Shajenko, Lessia S.

 

HOW to DOW

 

Paper 157-2012:

 Henderson, Don; Carpenter, Art

 

Taking Full Advantage of sasCommunity.org: Your SAS® Site

 

Paper 158-2012:

 LeBouton, Kimberly

 

Getting Up to Speed with PROC REPORT

 

Operations Research   (Download entire section)


Paper 159-2012:

 Hughes, Ed; Chari, Manoj

 

New Features in SAS/OR® 12.1

 

Paper 160-2012:

 Miclaus, Kelci; Pratt, Rob; Galati, Matthew V.

 

The Traveling Salesman Traverses the Genome: Using SAS® Optimization in JMP® Genomics to build Genetic Maps

 

Paper 161-2012:

 Sadiq, Sabah

 

The Traveling Salesman Problem: Optimizing Delivery Routes Using Genetic Algorithms

 

Paper 162-2012:

 Rodriguez-Deniz, Hector

 

Using SAS® to Measure Airport Connectivity: An Application of Weighted Betweenness Centrality for the FAA National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems (NPIAS)

 

Paper 163-2012:

 Wang, Wei; Li, Arthur

 

Comparing Stock Returns Forecasting Methods Using SAS®

 

Paper 164-2012:

 Dehnad, Khasha

 

Formation of Optimum Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) Leveraging SAS/OR®

 

Paper 165-2012:

 Pease, Andrew S.

 

Bringing Optimization to the Business: Interfacing SAS/OR® with SAS® Stored Processes, Microsoft Excel, SAS® Enterprise Guide®, SAS® Forecast Studio, and Microsoft Project

 

Pharma and Health Care Providers   (Download entire section)


Paper 167-2012:

 Kilhullen, Michael

 

Using Custom Data Standards in SAS® Clinical Data Integration

 

Paper 168-2012:

 Bagnell, Melissa E.; Powell, Teresa M.

 

Your ®Survival® Guide to Using Time-Dependent Covariates

 

Paper 169-2012:

 Duan, Rui

 

Using the SAS® ODS Report Writing Interface to Create Clinical Study Reports

 

Paper 170-2012:

 Purushothaman, Ramya

 

Practical Application of SAS® Capabilities for Pharma Goaling and Performance Review

 

Paper 171-2012:

 Handelsman, David

 

Applying Business Analytics to Optimize Clinical Research Operations

 

Paper 172-2012:

 Decker, Chris

 

Defining the Development Process and Governance of Implementing ADaM within an Organization

 

Paper 173-2012:

 Cui, Xiangchen ; Chen, Min

 

Automatic Consistency Checking of Controlled Terminology and Value Level Metadata between ADaM Datasets and Define.xml for FDA Submission

 

Paper 174-2012:

 Wang, Chunmao

 

SAS® Macros to Transpose SDTM Data Sets Automatically

 

Paper 175-2012:

 Han, Yanwei

 

Using SAS® Macros to Remediate Existing SDTM Data Sets for New Drug Application (NDA) Submission

 

Paper 176-2012:

 Gerlach, John R.; Thangavel, Ganesh Sankaran

 

A Standard SAS® Program for Corroborating OpenCDISC Error Messages

 

Paper 177-2012:

 VanPelt Nguyen, Sandra

 

SUPPQUAL®Where's My Mommy?

 

Paper 178-2012:

 Mengelbier, Magnus

 

Sharing SAS programs between PC, Server and SAS Drug Development

 

Paper 179-2012:

 Healy, Ian; Wong, Rocket

 

Automation of Paper-Based Medical Surveys Using the SAS® BI Platform ® Custom Web Forms for Real-Time Analysis

 

Paper 180-2012:

 deVille, Barry; Wolff, Mark

 

Error Reduction and Report Automation Approaches for Textually Dense Pharmaceutical Regulatory Conformance Incident Data

 

Paper 181-2012:

 Jones, Keith A.

 

Cluster Mapping of Medicare Severity Diagnosis-Related Groups for ICD-10 Conversions

 

Paper 182-2012:

 Liang, Qingfeng

 

SAS® Solutions Make HEDIS Measures Programming Easier

 

Paper 183-2012:

 Ogden, David C.

 

Physician Practice Pattern Variation: Using Data Mining and Predictive Modeling to Identify and Control Costly Treatment Patterns

 

Paper 184-2012:

 Yaraghi, Niam; Ye du, Anna; Sharman, Raj; Gopal, Ram; Ramesh, Ramaswamy ; Singh, Ranjit

 

Clustering Physicians Based on Professional Proximity Using SAS®

 

Planning and Support   (Download entire section)


Paper 185-2012:

 Raithel, Michael

 

Managing SAS® Technical Support in a Research Organization

 

Paper 186-2012:

 Koo, Ping Shung; Choy, Murphy

 

After Analytics, What®s Next?

 

Paper 187-2012:

 Augustine, Aaron J.

 

Successfully On-Boarding SAS® Analysts

 

Paper 188-2012:

 Fogleman, Stanley E.

 

What Is a SAS® Mentor and Why Do I Need One?

 

Paper 189-2012:

 Harper, Renee; Zender, Cynthia

 

Community Discovery: Best Tips and Features from Communities on SAS®

 

Paper 190-2012:

 Gilsen, Bruce

 

Tales from the Help Desk 5: Yet More Solutions for Common SAS® Mistakes

 

Paper 191-2012:

 Council, Kathy; Stewart, Larry; Harris, Annette

 

Services R Us

 

Paper 192-2012:

 Lafler, Kirk Paul; Shipp, Charles E.

 

Consulting: Critical Success Factors

 

Paper 193-2012:

 Reynolds, Robbie; Alt-Simmons, Rachel

 

Lean and Mean: Using Lean Six Sigma to Improve Your Analytic Processes

 

Paper 194-2012:

 Rhodes, Dianne Louise

 

The Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) as a Standard: Beyond the Documentation

 

Paper 195-2012:

 Line, Stetson

 

SAS® and Microsoft SharePoint: Project and Resource Management Tools and Techniques for Large, Globally Distributed Programming Teams

 

Paper 196-2012:

 Pruitt, Rex

 

SAS® User Groups: Why? How?

 

Posters   (Download entire section)


Paper 197-2012:

 King, Simon J.; Daniels, Aaron; Warwick, Jacob

 

®A Week in the Life®: A Visual Analysis of Internet Use by School-Age Students

 

Paper 198-2012:

 Okerson, Barbara

 

A Corporate SAS® Community of Support

 

Paper 199-2012:

 Gilsen, Bruce

 

A SAS® Tip-of-the-Day Web Page on an Intranet

 

Paper 200-2012:

 Nakkeeran, Karthik; Garla, Satish; Chakraborty, Goutam

 

Application of Time Series Clustering Using SAS® Enterprise Miner® for a Retail Chain

 

Paper 201-2012:

 Tavakoli, Abbas S.; Cai, Bo; Snyder, Rita; Huynh, Nathan

 

Calculating Multi-Rater Observation Agreement in Health Care Research Using the SAS® Kappa Statistic

 

Paper 202-2012:

 Milum, Jenine

 

Creating a Report in the SAS® Information Delivery Portal Using SAS® Information Maps

 

Paper 203-2012:

 Canonizado, Katrina E.; Murphy, Matthew

 

Creating Pharmacokinetic Graphs Using SAS/GRAPH®

 

Paper 204-2012:

 Faron, Michael; Chakraborty, Goutam

 

Easily Add Significance Testing to your Market Basket Analysis in SAS® Enterprise Miner®

 

Paper 205-2012:

 Cui, Xiangchen ; Liu, Hongyu; Pakalapati, Tathabbai

 

Examples of Building Traceability in CDISC ADaM Datasets for FDA Submission

 

Paper 206-2012:

 Krutsick, Robert

 

Finding the Winning Combination: An Application of Multivariate Testing from Digital Marketing

 

Paper 207-2012:

 Del Rosario, Allan; Mefford, Jennifer

 

Getting Started with ODS: Generating Formatted Reports Using the ExcelXP Tagset

 

Paper 208-2012:

 Wu, Yi-Fang

 

How Test Length and Sample Size Have an Impact on the Standard Errors for IRT True Score Equating: Integrating SAS® and Other Software

 

Paper 209-2012:

 Song, Ning; Liu, Jiawen; Chakraborty, Goutam; Anstead, James A.

 

Investigating Host Plant Resistance to Aphid Feeding through SAS® Text Miner

 

Paper 210-2012:

 Gloudemans, Julie A.; Owens, Corina M.; Kromrey, Jeffrey

 

MV_META: A SAS® Macro for Multivariate Meta-Analysis

 

Paper 211-2012:

 Hantsch, Joseph J.; Stuelpner, Janet

 

One at a Time; Producing Patient Profiles and Narratives

 

Paper 212-2012:

 Koo, Ping Shung

 

Perils of Ignoring Social Media

 

Paper 213-2012:

 Williams, Christianna; Hadden, Louise S.

 

Programming the Provider Previews: Extreme Reporting in SAS®

 

Paper 214-2012:

 Hadden, Louise S.; Williams, Christianna

 

Put a Little Zip in Your SAS® Program

 

Paper 215-2012:

 Boase, Jonathan; Kros, Donald E.

 

The Path to Developing Your Organization's SAS® Skills

 

Paper 216-2012:

 Wong, JuYin Helen

 

Using PHREG for Model Selection to Explore the Time Taking Immigrants in the GB to Find First Employment and Cross Validating Frailty Terms

 

Paper 217-2012:

 Battiston, Christopher

 

Wake Up Your Data with Graph'n'Go

 

Programming: Beyond the Basics   (Download entire section)


Paper 218-2012:

 Shamlin, David

 

Tales of SAS® 9.3: A Collection of Uses

 

Paper 219-2012:

 Davis, Scott

 

What to Do with a Regular Expression

 

Paper 220-2012:

 Cox, Thomas W.

 

Advanced XML Processing with SAS® 9.3

 

Paper 222-2012:

 Manickam, Airaha Chelvakkanthan

 

Interesting Technical Mini-Bytes of Base SAS®®From DATA Steps to Macros

 

Paper 223-2012:

 Dorfman, Paul M.; Viergever, William W.

 

Straight from Memory: ADDR, PEEK, POKE as SAS Programming Tools

 

Paper 224-2012:

 Correa Bahnsen, Alejandro; Amezquita, Darwin A.; Gonzalez, Andres F.

 

Parallel Computing in SAS®: Genetic Algorithms Application

 

Paper 225-2012:

 Suoh, Setsuo C.

 

Sudoku-Solving System by SAS®

 

Paper 226-2012:

 Dunn, Toby; Lafler, Kirk Paul

 

The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

 

Paper 227-2012:

 Secosky, Jason

 

Executing a PROC from a DATA Step

 

Paper 228-2012:

 Li, Arthur

 

Is Your Failed Macro Due to Misjudged ®Timing®?

 

Paper 229-2012:

 Hamilton, Jack

 

What Do You Mean, Not Everyone Is Like Me: Writing Programs for Others to Run

 

Paper 230-2012:

 Karafa, Matthew T.

 

Macro Coding Tips and Tricks to Avoid "PEBCAK" Errors

 

Paper 231-2012:

 Crawford, Peter; Oltsik, Myra A.

 

Solve the SAS® ODS Data Trap in PROC MEANS

 

Paper 232-2012:

 Ventura, Audrey

 

Getting to the Good Part of Data Analysis: Data Access, Manipulation, and Customization Using JMP®

 

Paper 233-2012:

 Poulsen, Rachel; Chakravarthy, Raghunathan

 

Seamless Reporting Automation through the Integration of JMP®, SAS®, and VBA

 

Paper 234-2012:

 Kincaid, Chuck; Fuller, Jack E.

 

SG Techniques: Telling the Story Even Better!

 

Paper 235-2012:

 Bessler, LeRoy

 

Comparison of SAS® Graphic Alternatives, Old and New

 

Paper 236-2012:

 Kasper, Craig

 

Implementing Control Selection Using Hash Tables: A Case Study

 

Paper 237-2012:

 First, Steven

 

The SAS® Log: A Wealth of Data and Job Flow Information

 

Paper 238-2012:

 Tabachneck, Arthur S.; King, John; Derby, Nate; Herbison, Randy; DeVenezia, Richard; Powell, Ben

 

Copy and Paste Almost Anything

 

Paper 239-2012:

 Hermansen, Sigurd

 

Optimizing That Which ®®cannot be optimized®.® Superfast SAS 9.2 + Searches and Fuzzy Linkage of Large Data Sets

 

Paper 240-2012:

 Drutar, Michael

 

®There®s an App for That®: It®s Called SAS® ODS! Mobile Data Entry and Reporting via SAS ODS

 

Paper 433-2012:

 Kastin, Matthew J.; Tabachneck, Arthur S.

 

Yet Another Sudoku Solver, PROC FCMP

 

Programming: Foundations and Fundamentals   (Download entire section)


Paper 241-2012:

 Cody, Ronald

 

A Survey of Some of the Most Useful SAS® Functions

 

Paper 242-2012:

 Carpenter, Art

 

PROC REPORT Basics: Getting Started with the Primary Statements

 

Paper 243-2012:

 Karp, Andrew

 

My Friend, the SAS® Format

 

Paper 244-2012:

 Buck, Debbie

 

SAS® Dates: Facts, Formats, and Functions

 

Paper 245-2012:

 Langston, Rick

 

Using the New Features in PROC FORMAT

 

Paper 246-2012:

 Li, Arthur

 

Simplifying Effective Data Transformation via PROC TRANSPOSE

 

Paper 247-2012:

 Droogendyk, Harry

 

Moving Data and Results Between SAS® and Microsoft Excel

 

Paper 248-2012:

 Mullin, Charles E.; Russell, Kevin

 

Why Does SAS® Say That? What Common DATA Step and Macro Messages Are Trying to Tell You

 

Paper 249-2012:

 Cohen, John J.

 

A Tutorial on the SAS® Macro Language

 

Paper 250-2012:

 Zender, Cynthia

 

Where®s the LISTING Window? Using the New Results Viewer in SAS® 9.3

 

Paper 251-2012:

 Lafler, Kirk Paul

 

Exploring DATA Step Merges and PROC SQL Joins

 

Paper 252-2012:

 Bost, Christopher J.

 

Selecting All Observations When Any Observation Is of Interest

 

Paper 253-2012:

 Zhao, Yi

 

Import and Output XML Files with SAS®

 

Paper 254-2012:

 Bouedo, Mickael

 

Write Once, Run Anywhere! How to Make Your SAS® Application Speak Many Languages

 

Paper 255-2012:

 Johnson, Jim

 

The Use and Abuse of the Program Data Vector

 

Paper 256-2012:

 Cochran, Ben T.

 

BIG Money PROC TABULATE®Generating Great Reports with the TABULATE Procedure

 

Paper 257-2012:

 Benjamin Jr, William E.

 

Leave Your Bad Code Behind: 50 Ways to Make Your SAS® Code Execute More Efficiently

 

Paper 258-2012:

 Pool, Gary

 

Common Sense SAS® - Documenting and Structuring Your Code

 

Paper 259-2012:

 Delwiche, Lora; Slaughter, Susan

 

Graphing Made Easy with SG Procedures

 

Paper 260-2012:

 Huntley, Scott; Middleton, Woody

 

A Different Point of View with ODS PDF in SAS® 9.3

 

Reporting and Information Visualization   (Download entire section)


Paper 261-2012:

 Kalt, Mike; Zender, Cynthia

 

At the Crossroads: How to Decide on Your Graphics Path

 

Paper 262-2012:

 Watts, Perry; Derby, Nate

 

Using SAS® GTL to Visualize Your Data When There Is Too Much of It to Visualize

 

Paper 263-2012:

 Osborne, Anastasiya M.

 

Faking Esri ArcGIS Maps in SAS®

 

Paper 264-2012:

 Wainwright-Zimmerman, Andrea

 

Quick and Dirty Microsoft Excel Workbooks without Dynamic Data Exchange or the SAS® Output Delivery System

 

Paper 265-2012:

 Shapiro, Mira

 

Making Your SAS® Data JMP® Through Hoops

 

Paper 266-2012:

 Fu, Jizhou; Zhang, Yanwei

 

Visualizing Spatial Data Using SAS® and Google Static Maps

 

Paper 267-2012:

 Hebbar, Prashant

 

Off the Beaten Path: Create Unusual Graphs with GTL
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Paper 268-2012:

 Karp, Andrew

 

Creating the Perfect Plot with PROCs EXPAND and SGPLOT: The Dynamic Duo of Time Series Display

 

Paper 269-2012:

 Choy, Murphy

 

Sparklines in the DATA Step Graphics Interface from SAS/GRAPH®

 

Paper 270-2012:

 Hill, Melissa E.; Kezik, Julie M.

 

Mix and Match: Diversity in Displaying Data

 

Paper 271-2012:

 Thornton, Patrick

 

Essential SAS® ODS PDF

 

Paper 273-2012:

 Smith, Kevin

 

ODS Document from Scratch

 

Paper 274-2012:

 Crawford, Peter

 

SAS/FSP® Provides the Best Customizable Form Viewer

 

Paper 275-2012:

 Hall, Johnston P.; Snyder, Ryan

 

Let the Data Paint the Picture: Data-Driven, Interactive, and Animated Visualizations Using SAS®, Java and the Processing Graphics Library

 

Paper 276-2012:

 Stetz, Cynthia

 

Multisheet Workbooks Using the ODS Excelxp Tagset

 

Paper 277-2012:

 Shipp, Charles E.; Lafler, Kirk Paul

 

Proficiency in JMP® Advanced Visualization

 

Paper 278-2012:

 Khoo, Jonathon; Koo, Ping Shung

 

Hyperslicing with SAS®

 

Paper 279-2012:

 Summers, Ed; Allison, Robert; Langston, Julianna; Cowley, Jennifer

 

Using SAS/GRAPH® to Create Visualizations That Also Support Tactile and Auditory Interaction

 

Paper 280-2012:

 Chen, Kathy

 

Innovative Uses of ODS and GTL

 

Paper 282-2012:

 VanBuskirk, Julie; Harper, Jennifer S.

 

Traffic Lighting: The Next Generation

 

Paper 283-2012:

 Chung, Kevin

 

An Automatic Approach to Creating a Data Dictionary in SharePoint Using SAS®

 

Paper 284-2012:

 Massengill, Darrell; Phillips, Jeff; Tobias, Randy

 

Together at Last: Spatial Analysis and SAS® Mapping
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Paper 285-2012:

 Pratt, Jesse M.

 

The Graph Template Language: Beyond the SAS/GRAPH® Procedures

 

Paper 389-2012:

 Shan, Xia K.

 

Make an Appropriate Page Break in a PDF When Using PROC REPORT

 

Retail   (Download entire section)


Paper 286-2012:

 Shive, Wanda; Mouton, Dwight J.

 

Improving Retail Decisions with Customer Analytics: Leveraging Actionable Customer Insights to Build Sales and Profits

 

Paper 287-2012:

 Devine, Kerri; Markey, Elaine

 

SAS® Retail Planning 7.2 Demonstration

 

Paper 288-2012:

 Gupta, Saurabh; Kumar, Deva

 

Retail Solutions Update

 

Paper 419-2012:

 Clouse, Amy

 

SAS® Integrated Merchandise Planning Round Table

 

Paper 420-2012:

 Plaskas, Carrie

 

SAS® Markdown Optimization for Retail Round Table

 

Paper 421-2012:

 Chopra, Manoj

 

SAS® Regular Price Optimization Solution: Customer Case Study

 

Paper 422-2012:

 Ferguson, Ann; Sanders, Scott; Stewart, Wesley

 

Really? Don®t Trust Your Gut with Assortment Planning

 

Paper 423-2012:

 Eddy, Dave

 

SAS Promotional Price Optimization Solution: A Customer Case Study

 

Paper 432-2012:

 Soria, Alexander

 

Understanding impact of social media on online retail

 

SAS® Enterprise Guide® Implementation and Usage   (Download entire section)


Paper 289-2012:

 Shapiro, Mira; Lafler, Kirk Paul

 

Using SAS® Enterprise Guide® to Coax Your Excel Data Into SAS®

 

Paper 290-2012:

 Milbuta, Scott A.

 

Converting Complex Microsoft Access Database Reporting Systems Using SAS® Enterprise Guide®

 

Paper 292-2012:

 Burke, Michael R.; Fu, I-kong B.

 

Finding Your Inner Query with SAS® Enterprise Guide®

 

Paper 293-2012:

 Wang, Ying

 

The Alarm Effect of Statistical Process Control Process in Automotives Manufacturing

 

Paper 294-2012:

 Schacherer, Christopher W.

 

Take a Fresh Look at SAS® Enterprise Guide®: From Point-and-Click Ad Hocs to Robust Enterprise Solutions

 

Paper 295-2012:

 Zhang, Guangzhi; Guo, Xing

 

Using SAS® Enterprise Guide® As a Powerful Regulating Weapon

 

Paper 296-2012:

 Sullivan, Linda; Borjesson, Ulf M.; Collado, Evangeline; Murray, Maureen

 

Case Study: Implementing and Administering SAS® Enterprise Guide® across the Enterprise as a Solution for Data Access Security

 

Paper 297-2012:

 Smith, Casey

 

Best Practices for Administering SAS® Enterprise Guide®

 

Paper 298-2012:

 Hemedinger, Chris

 

Not Just for Scheduling: Doing More with SAS® Enterprise Guide® Automation

 

Paper 299-2012:

 Tabladillo, Mark

 

Regular Expressions in SAS® Enterprise Guide®

 

Paper 300-2012:

 Sarker, Rahman

 

Using SAS® Enterprise Guide® the Same Way as Base SAS® and More

 

Paper 301-2012:

 First, Steven; First, Jennifer F.

 

Productivity Tips for SAS® Enterprise Guide® Users

 

Paper 302-2012:

 Chitale, Anand V.; Clover, Lina

 

Up Close and Personal with SAS® Enterprise Guide® 5.1

 

SAS® Futures   (Download entire section)


Paper 390-2012:

 Rubendall, Craig; Stephens, Robert A.

 

A Sunny Outlook for Cloud Computing with SAS®

 

Paper 391-2012:

 Nori, Murali K.

 

Empowering SAS® Enterprise Application with Collaboration and Search

 

Paper 392-2012:

 Shamlin, David; Plemmons, Howard; Rausch, Nancy; Langston, Rick; Ames, Michael

 

Capitalizing on SAS® and Hadoop

 

Paper 393-2012:

 Cohen, Robert; Rodriguez, Robert N.

 

High-Performance Statistical Modeling

 

Paper 394-2012:

 Schneider, Mark

 

The Future of SAS® Deployment: From MSI Packages to Web-Based Control

 

Paper 395-2012:

 Schmiedl, Ryan; Ames, Michael; Thompson, Wayne

 

Decision Management, Speed, and Agility

 

Paper 396-2012:

 Cox, James; Sethi, Saratendu; Foley, Richard

 

User-Assisted Modeling: How SAS® Text Analytics Will Help You Pinpoint Data of Interest

 

Paper 397-2012:

 Secosky, Jason

 

The New SAS® Programming Language: DS2

 

SAS® IT Management   (Download entire section)


Paper 386-2012:

 Vaughn, Scott; LeHong, Hung; Nist, Pauline ; King, Gary

 

How Analytics Can Help Turn IT Into True Business Results Drivers

 

Paper 387-2012:

 Harris, Bryan; Dunn, Jessica

 

Analytic Infrastructure Design Considerations

 

Paper 388-2012:

 Day, Gavin; Campbell, Scot

 

Information Management Strategy

 

SAS® Workshop Series   (Download entire section)


Paper 398-2012:

 Vitron, Christine

 

SAS® Workshop: SAS® Platform Administration

 

Paper 399-2012:

 Rossland, Eric

 

SAS® Workshop: SAS® Add-In for Microsoft Office 5.1

 

Paper 400-2012:

 Richardson, Kari

 

SAS® Workshop: SAS® Data Integration Basics

 

Paper 401-2012:

 Rossland, Eric

 

SAS® Workshop: SAS® Enterprise Guide® 5.1

 

Paper 402-2012:

 Richardson, Kari

 

SAS® Workshop: SAS® Data Integration Advanced

 

Paper 403-2012:

 Rossland, Eric

 

SAS® Workshop: Creating SAS® Stored Processes

 

Paper 404-2012:

 Rossland, Eric

 

SAS® Workshop: Creating SAS® Stored Processes

 

Paper 405-2012:

 Richardson, Kari

 

SAS® Workshop: SAS® Data Integration Basics

 

Paper 406-2012:

 Rossland, Eric

 

SAS® Workshop: SAS® Enterprise Guide® 5.1

 

Paper 407-2012:

 Richardson, Kari

 

SAS® Workshop: SAS® Data Integration Advanced

 

Paper 408-2012:

 Rossland, Eric

 

SAS® Workshop: SAS® Add-In for Microsoft Office 5.1

 

Paper 409-2012:

 Richardson, Kari

 

SAS® Workshop: DataFlux® Data Management Studio Basics

 

Paper 410-2012:

 Vitron, Christine

 

SAS® Workshop: SAS® Platform Administration

 

Paper 411-2012:

 Rossland, Eric

 

SAS® Workshop: Creating SAS® Stored Processes

 

Paper 412-2012:

 Rossland, Eric

 

SAS® Workshop: SAS® Add-In for Microsoft Office 5.1

 

Paper 413-2012:

 Vitron, Christine

 

SAS® Workshop: SAS® Platform Administration

 

Paper 414-2012:

 Richardson, Kari

 

SAS® Workshop: DataFlux® Data Management Studio

 

Paper 415-2012:

 Rossland, Eric

 

SAS® Workshop: SAS® Enterprise Guide® 5.1

 

Social Media and Networking   (Download entire section)


Paper 303-2012:

 Battiston, Christopher

 

SAS Social Media or How I Learned to Love the Blog

 

Paper 304-2012:

 deVille, Barry; Bawa, Gurpreet S.

 

Topic Discovery, Tracking, and Characterization of Social Media Conversations for Point of Origin and Dissemination Discovery

 

Paper 305-2012:

 Shipp, Charles E.; Lafler, Kirk Paul

 

Connect with SAS® Professionals around the World with LinkedIn and sasCommunity.org

 

Paper 306-2012:

 Duraidhayalu, Hari Hara Sudhan; Garla, Satish; Chakraborty, Goutam

 

Analyzing Sentiments in Tweets about Wal-Mart®s Gender Discrimination Lawsuit Verdict Using SAS® Text Miner

 

Paper 307-2012:

 Case, Todd

 

Social Media and Networking: The Ins and Outs

 

Paper 308-2012:

 Koo, Ping Shung; Choy, Murphy

 

Using Facebook to Engage SAS® Users

 

Paper 309-2012:

 Blomberg, Jodi

 

Twitter and Facebook Analysis: It®s Not Just for Marketing Anymore

 

Paper 310-2012:

 Thompson, Stephanie R.

 

Social Media Panel

 

Statistics and Data Analysis   (Download entire section)


Paper 312-2012:

 Allison, Paul D.

 

Handling Missing Data by Maximum Likelihood

 

Paper 313-2012:

 Stokes, Maura; Chen, Fang; Yuan, Yang C.; Cai, Weijie

 

Look Out: After SAS/STAT® 9.3 Comes SAS/STAT 12.1!

 

Paper 314-2012:

 Lanehart, Rheta E.; Rodriguez de Gil, Patricia; Kim, Eun Sook; Bellara, Aarti P.; Kromrey, Jeffrey; Lee, Reginald

 

Propensity Score Analysis and Assessment of Propensity Score Approaches Using SAS® Procedures

 

Paper 315-2012:

 Agravat, Manoj B.

 

Effect Modification, Confounding,Hazard Ratio, Distribution Analysis, and Probability of Non-normal Data for Head Neck Cancer

 

Paper 316-2012:

 Petit-Bois, Merlande; Pham, Thanh V.; Baek, Eun Kyeng; Kromrey, Jeffrey

 

A SAS® Macro for Computing Point Estimates and Confidence Intervals of Effect Sizes Associated with Mediation Analysis

 

Paper 317-2012:

 Liu, Dachao

 

Using SAS® to Extend Logistic Regression

 

Paper 318-2012:

 Christian, Blair; Ransdell, Bucky

 

Monitoring the Variation in Your Multivariate Process: An Introduction to the MVPMODEL and MVPMONITOR Procedures

 

Paper 319-2012:

 Schwartz, Theresa; Zeig-Owens, Rachel

 

Knowledge (of Your Missing Data) Is Power: Handling Missing Values in Your SAS Data Set

 

Paper 320-2012:

 Miller, Lori L.; Wilds, Fred

 

Using SAS® PROC MIXED to Fit Health Policy-Based Hierarchical Models

 

Paper 322-2012:

 Lew, Robert; Wu, Hongsheng

 

A Simple Way to Program Power Calculations

 

Paper 323-2012:

 Gao, Yubo

 

A Bootstrapped Kappa Statistic for a Multiple-Rater Multiple-Category Problem

 

Paper 324-2012:

 Arnold, Tim; Kuhfeld, Warren

 

Using SAS® and LaTeX to Create Documents with Reproducible Results

 

Paper 325-2012:

 Swearingen, Christopher J.; Melguizo, Maria S.; Bursac, Zoran

 

Inflated Beta Regression: Zero, One, and Everything in Between

 

Paper 326-2012:

 McCormack, Don

 

Making Exploration of Nonlinear Models Fast and Easy Using JMP® 10

 

Paper 327-2012:

 Sall, John

 

Speeding Up Discovery

 

Paper 328-2012:

 Kessler, David; McDowell, Allen

 

Introducing the FMM Procedure for Finite Mixture Models

 

Paper 329-2012:

 Corliss, David J.

 

Dynamically Evolving Systems: Cluster Analysis Using Time

 

Paper 330-2012:

 Steinberg, Jonathan

 

Exploring the Dimensionality of Large-Scale Standardized Educational Assessments Using PROC FACTOR

 

Paper 331-2012:

 Suhr, Diana

 

Exploratory Factor Analysis with the World Values Survey

 

Paper 332-2012:

 Kiernan, Kathleen; Tao, Jill; Gibbs, Phil

 

Tips and Strategies for Mixed Modeling with SAS/STAT® Procedures

 

Paper 333-2012:

 Ngo, Theresa H.

 

The Steps to Follow in a Multiple Regression Analysis

 

Paper 335-2012:

 Yang, Dongsheng; Dalton, Jarrod E.

 

Standardized Difference: An Index to Measure the Effect Size between Two Groups

 

Paper 336-2012:

 Zhao, Wuchen; Li, Arthur

 

A Generalized Approach to Estimating Sample Sizes

 

Paper 337-2012:

 Dickey, David

 

Introduction to Predictive Modeling with Examples

 

Paper 338-2012:

 Fisher, Thomas J.

 

Weighted Portmanteau Tests Revisited: Detecting Heteroscedasticity, Fitting Nonlinear and Multivariate Time Series

 

Paper 339-2012:

 Milh®j, Anders

 

Analyzing the Time Series of U.S. E-Commerce Using PROC UCM

 

Paper 340-2012:

 Sa-Ngasoongsong, Akkarapol; Bukkapatnam, Satish T.

 

Variable Selection for Multivariate Cointegrated Time Series Prediction with PROC VARCLUS in SAS® Enterprise Miner® 7.1

 

Paper 341-2012:

 Blair, Ed; Leonard, Michael J.; Elsheimer, Bruce

 

Combined Forecasts: What to Do When One Model Isn't Good Enough

 

Paper 342-2012:

 Holdaway, Keith R.

 

Let Oil and Gas Talk to You: Predicting Production Performance

 

Paper 343-2012:

 Lohr, Sharon

 

Using SAS® for the Design, Analysis, and Visualization of Complex Surveys

 

Paper 344-2012:

 Lin, Guixian; So, Ying C.; Johnston, Gordon

 

Analyzing Survival Data with Competing Risks Using SAS® Software

 

Paper 345-2012:

 Novotny, Paul J.; Tan, Angelina; Foster, Nathan R.; Sloan, Jeff

 

SAS® Tools for Cost-Effective and High-Quality Clinical Trial Reporting

 

Paper 346-2012:

 Hopkins, Michelle

 

Deep Dive into the PIM and DDI Data

 

Paper 347-2012:

 Chapman, David D.

 

Selecting Unrestricted and Simple Random With Replacement Samples Using Base SAS and PROC SURVEYSELECT

 

Paper 348-2012:

 Nadimpalli, Varma; Hubbell, Katie

 

Simplifying the Analysis of Complex Survey Data Using the SAS® Survey Analysis Procedures

 

Paper 349-2012:

 Berglund, Patricia

 

Enhanced Data Analysis Using SAS® ODS Graphics and Statistical Graphics

 

Paper 350-2012:

 Baecke, Philippe; Van den Poel, Dirk

 

Including the Salesperson Effect in Purchasing Behavior Models Using PROC GLIMMIX

 

Paper 351-2012:

 Immadi, Manoj K.

 

Kass Adjustments in Decision Trees on Binary/Interval Target

 

Paper 352-2012:

 Witelson, Shira

 

Wallet and Share of Wallet Estimation: A Flexible Methodology

 

Paper 353-2012:

 Srivastava, Anurag G.; Suklani, Vikram D.; Karnavat, Pranav

 

Measuring Consumer Involvement Profiles as a Second-Order Construct Using SAS® PROC CALIS

 

Paper 418-2012:

 Gardiner, Joseph C.

 

Modeling Heavy-Tailed Distributions in Healthcare Utilization by Parametric and Bayesian Methods

 

Paper 426-2012:

 Elkin, Eric P.

 

Are You in Need of Validation? Psychometric Evaluation of Questionnaires Using SAS®

 

Paper 427-2012:

 Elkin, Eric P.

 

Beyond Binary Outcomes: PROC LOGISTIC to Model Ordinal and Nominal Dependent Variables

 

Paper 430-2012:

 LaLonde, Steven M.

 

Transforming Variables for Normality and Linearity: When, How, Why, and Why Nots

 

Systems Architecture and Administration   (Download entire section)


Paper 354-2012:

 Bennett, Donna; Leslie, Shannon; Losh, Jason; Schneider, Mark; Stovic, Jane

 

Zen and the Art of SAS Maintenance: Maintaining and Upgrading a Well-Oiled SAS Deployment

 

Paper 355-2012:

 Agrawal, Gaurav K.

 

SAS® In-Database Capability: Smart Architecture

 

Paper 356-2012:

 Bessler, LeRoy; Andruskevitch, Victor L.

 

Another Way to Use SAS® to Monitor SAS or a SAS Server: A Tool for the User, Server Administrator, or Manager

 

Paper 357-2012:

 Lafler, Kirk Paul

 

Top Ten SAS® Performance Tuning Techniques

 

Paper 358-2012:

 Park, Heesun

 

Security Hardening for SAS® 9.3 Enterprise BI Web Applications

 

Paper 359-2012:

 Liotus, Laura

 

Schedule Your SAS® Jobs and Go with the Flow: Maximize the Use of SAS with the Platform Suite

 

Paper 360-2012:

 Shakshober, Douglas; Marson, Barry; Guerette, Mike

 

Red Hat Enterprise Linux: Optimizing Your SAS® Deployments

 

Paper 362-2012:

 Ferrari, Jim; Olvera, Juan P.

 

Integrating SAS with ERwin to Capture Design and Business Metadata

 

Paper 363-2012:

 Crevar, Margaret; Brown, Tony

 

Guidelines for Preparing Your Computer Systems for SAS®

 

Paper 364-2012:

 Nelson, Gregory

 

Serving SAS®: A Visual Guide to SAS® Servers

 

Paper 365-2012:

 Mengelbier, Magnus

 

Simple Version Control of SAS Programs and SAS Data Sets

 

Paper 366-2012:

 Crevar, Margaret

 

Logging 101: Leveraging the SAS® 9.3 Enhanced Logging Facility

 

Paper 367-2012:

 Kumbhakarna, Viraj R.; Katare, Anurag

 

A Hitchhiker's Guide for Performance Assessment and Benchmarking SAS® Applications

 

Paper 368-2012:

 Luo, Danni; Bianchi, David; Bogacz, Stephen; Dorfner, Greg

 

Practice on the SAS® Scalable Performance Data Server Configuration for Maximum Performance

 

Paper 369-2012:

 Whitesel, Brent; Hall, Angela

 

Leveraging an Upgrade to Improve Metadata

 

Paper 370-2012:

 Granger, Erwan

 

RTM and SASGSUB, the Power to Know® What Your Grid Is Doing

 

Paper 371-2012:

 Baars, Frank; Nijsen, Edwin

 

How to Administer a 9,000-User Community on a Multiple SAS® Metadata Environment

 

Paper 372-2012:

 Huggins, Steve

 

Customizing SAS® OQ to Provide Business Specific Testing of SAS Installations and Updates

 

Paper 373-2012:

 Mott, Andrew

 

The Top Five Migration Considerations for Success

 

Paper 374-2012:

 Bresson, Christopher; Flis, Marty

 

Using Dynamic Views as a Supplement to SAS® Security to Enhance Multiple Levels of Access Requirements to Row-Level Data Upon SAS Server Startup

 

Paper 375-2012:

 Augustine, Bob; Marson, Barry

 

Utilize Red Hat Kernel Virtual Machine to Enable Your Development and Test Environment to Peacefully Co-Exist with Your Production Environment

 

Paper 376-2012:

 Hatcher, Diane

 

Evolution of Best Practices for Metadata Change Control in SAS® 9

 

Paper 377-2012:

 Overton, Stephen M.

 

Automagically Herding 101 SAS® Users from Microsoft Active Directory to SAS Metadata

 

Paper 378-2012:

 Ye, Qing; Nardin, Richard; Williams, Romon

 

From Solo to Symphony: Scale Service Up Using Multiple Stored-Process Server Clusters

 

Paper 416-2012:

 Augustine, Bob

 

Storage 101: Understanding Storage for SAS® Applications

 

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Paper 379-2012:

 Dietz, Alex; Osborn, Natalie G.; Sanli, Tugrul

 

Are You Awash in the Sea of Competitive Price Intelligence? Let Analytics Be Your Life Raft

 

Paper 381-2012:

 Darwish, Ahmed; Goklani, Sunil

 

Revenue Assurance: Using SAS® to Identify Revenue Leakages

 

Paper 382-2012:

 Yu, Haining; Zahrn, Frederick C.; Chu, Hai D.

 

Implementation of a Restaurant Revenue Management System at Walt Disney World

 

Paper 383-2012:

 Kaduwela, Vijitha

 

Leveraging Analytics in Transportation to Create Business Value

 

Paper 384-2012:

 Dietz, Alex; Osborn, Natalie G.; Sanli, Tugrul

 

Factoring Upgrades into Overbooking Decisions for Hotels and Casinos