SUGI 12 Proceedings

Dallas, Texas
February 8 - 11, 1987
Pat Hermes Smith, Conference Chair

Proceedings Index

All documents are in PDF format.

"Beeperless "Programming-Effective Methods of Testing Using SAS® Software %QAFLIST-A Macro to Document SAS/AF® Software Libraries A 'SAS® UTM Projection for Geographical Information Systems Applications A Codebook Template for the Creation and Use of Permanent SAS® Data Sets and Format Libraries (CMS Applications) A Comparison of Table Look-up Techniques A Documentation Listing for SAS® Programs A Flexible Mean-Standard Error Plot: Macro Program A Guide to Color Hard Copy Device Purchases A Laboratory Notebook in SAS® Software A Macro for Estimating the Box-Cox Power Transformation A Manufacturing WIP Flow Model Created using SAS® Software A Menu-Driven CPE Reporting Application (The CPE Starter Set) A Multi-Year Occupational Health Records System A New Approach to Creating Full-screen Menu-driven Systems for the SAS® System under CMS A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words and Numbers A Polygon Truncating Technique Provides Zoom for PROC GMAP A Queuing Model for Analyzing Workloads of a Single-Threaded Process A Rule-based Expert System Implementation for SAS® Software A SAS/AF® Software Interface to Conversions Between FOCUS and SAS® Software under CMS A SAS/ETS® Software Forecasting and Inventory Planning System A SAS/GRAPH® Software DISSPLA Interface using the Linkable and Metagraphics Drivers A SAS® Macro for Estimating Missing Values in Multivariate Data A SAS® Software Macro Application in Number Theory or SAS® Software for Fun and Puzzles A Sample Application for the New INFILE/FILE User Exit for IBM Mainframes A Spreadsheet Application using Multiple Input Windows in the SAS® System for Personal Computers A Systematic Response to Customer Complaints using PROC FSEDIT, PROC FSLETTER, and PROC GCHART A VAX'M-VMS ""Command Procedure for Submitting SAS® Software Jobs in Batch Mode Accessing SAS® Software Sample Program Libraries Using CMS REXX An Application That Interfaces PC and Host Resources An End-User System for Reporting using SAS/AF® Software and SAS/FSP® Software as Code Generators An Enhanced SAS/AF® Software Consistency Error Checking Routine An Example of an Integrated Programming and Data Analysis System An Integrated Audit System Based on the SAS® System An Interactive Method to Invoke SAS® Software Report Programs An Interface for EPIC and SAS® Software An Introduction to SAS/DMI® Software An Overview of the SAS® System Random Number Generators Analyzing Your Information Needs Application Prototyping in a Decentralized Environment Application of Intervention Analysis to Power Plant Monitoring Data Automating Documentation: Or How to Avoid the Really Dull Work and Still Know What You Are Doing Backing Up SAS® Software Files Batch Environment SAS® System as an Aid to Managerial Decision Making Batch File for Sharing SAS® Software for the Microcomputer on One PC Beyond Default Colors: Introduction to Customizing Graphics Output Building Custom-Designed Reports for Financial Executives Building a Clinical Data Review System Using SAS/AF® Software CARS -A Synergy of SAS® Software, COBOL, and Data Analyzer for Health Care Reporting Combining SAS/GRAPH® Software Output with Text Using IBM's Document Composition Facility Combining SAS® Software and SYSTEM 2000® Data Management Software Comparison of Data Processing Procedures for the Statistical Analysis of Visual Field Data Comparison of Four Univariate Methods for Forecasting Seasonal Data by the SAS® System Comparison of PROC SORTT, Syncsort, and Plsort Computer Center Chargeback Using SAS® Software and MICS Confidence Limits for the Product Moment Correlation Coefficient Based upon Normalizing Transformations Controlling the SAS® System and Its Users An Information System Tutorial Conversion of UTM Coordinates to Geographic Coordinates for SAS/GRAPH® Software PROC GMAP Displa Coordinating a Site License through a University Mainframe Computing Center Corporate Computing: A Working Blend of Mainframe, Mini, and Microcomputers Corporate and Area User Groups Creating Selectively a Permanent SAS® Software Format Library from a Humongous Dictionary Creating a "User-Friendly "General Ledger Reporting System Creating a User-Friendly PROC FSCALC Application Data Entry Backup System: An Application of PROC FSEDIT in SAS/FSP® Software Decision Support Systems using SAS® Software and ISPF (or How ISPF Tables Can Enhance Your SAS® Software Life) Determining End User Response Time Using NLDM and SAS® Software Developing an Enhanced Facility for Installing SAS® Software for the Microcomputer under MS DOS and PC DOS Effect of Iteratively Reweighted Least Squares (IRLS) on Teaching A Course in Quantal/Categorical Response Effective Analysis of Non-standard Clinical Data Efficiency and Performance Considerations for the SAS® System under PC DOS Eight Key Questions on the Future Direction of Established SAS® Electronic Mail Using SAS/AF® Software and PROC FSLETTER Engineering Applications of SAS/GRAPH® Software Enhancements to the Micro-to-Host Link Enhancements to the SAS® Text Editor and PROC FSLETTER on the PC Establishing a SAS® Consulting Service at a Large Research University Estimation of Variance Components in Mixed Factorial Models Including Model-based Diagnostics Experiences with Teaching Experimental Design Using the SAS® System for Personal Computers Exploring the Mandelbrot Set Financial Statements from COMPUSTAT Quarterly Industrial Data Files Forming SAS® Time Series Data Sets from the International Financial Statistics Data Tape of the International Monetary Fund Frame It! Frame Generator Macros Full-screen Menu-driven Sample Size Programs Using SAS/AF® Software Generating Kappa Statistics and Testing Useful Hypotheses with PROC CATMOD Generating Sample Sizes for Hypergeometric Sampling. Plans Using SAS® Software Genius Report Writer System Getting the Most from PROC TABULATE Graphic Display of Data in Clinical Trials Graphic Profiling of User Group Activity Graphical Displays of Nonhierarchical Cluster Analysis Solutions Graphical Illustration of a Water Pollution Index Using SAS/GRAPH® Software Graphical Methods for the Analysis of Survival Data Graphical Presentation of Product Pricing High-Performance Graphics for Exploring Multivariate Data How to Use SAS® Software Effectively on Large Files Improving Statistical Methodology with the SAS® System in an Industrial Environment Incorporating Management Judgement in Forecasting Information Systems in the Utility Industry Based on the SAS® System: A Southern California Perspective Input of Questionnaire Data Using the PROC FSEDIT Screen Instructional Building Blocks of Computer-Based Training Integrated Information Systems Integrating Information System Technologies: Laser Printing, Model 204 DBMS, and the SAS® System Integrating SAS® System Analysis and Reporting into an ISAM Production Environment on the VAX'"A Interactive Learning Curve Calculator Using SAS® Software Interfacing SYSTEM 2000® DBMS with Fourth Generation Languages Interpretation and Diagnostics of the Multinomial Logistic Regression Intricacies and Ramifications of PC SAS® System Management and Distribution at Large Academic Institutions Introduction to SAS/DB2™ and SAS/SQL-DS™ Software Introduction to Version 6 SAS/AF® Software Jittering and Other Graphics Macros for Exploratory Data Analysis Lean and Mean: A Guide to Self Discipline in Using the SAS® System Low-Dimensional Representation of High-Dimensional Data for Multiple Populations with Unequal Covariance Matrices MVS Security and the Use of SAS® Software to Gather SMF Data Making Health Analysts Independent: A User-Friendly Management Information System Making SAS/GRAPH® Software Work for You Making SAS/IMS-DL/l® Software User Friendly Making Version 5 SAS® Software Work for You: The Design of a Dynamic Reporting System for All Users Man Hour Estimating System Management Graphics in a Quality Assurance Environment Management Information Systems (MIS) for Information Centers using SAS/FSP® SAS/GRAPH® and Base SAS® Software Matrix Generation Using SAS® Software Maximum Likelihood Estimation and Simulation for One and Two Stage Sampling of Normal Mixtures Using SAS® Software Measures of Multivariate Skewness and Kurtosis Mechanization of the Telephone Allocation Plan -A Network and/or Transportation Problem Micro-to-Host Application Micro-to-Host Link Performance and Setup Monitoring Corporate Plan Implementation with the SAS® System Mr. TIB: A Test Item Bank for Physician Assistants Network Performance and Resource Management New CBT Features in SAS/AF® Software for Version 6 New Developments in Psychometric and Market Research Procedures Nonparametric Density Estimation Numeric Precision Considerations in SAS® Software OS SAS® Installation: Performance and Tuning Considerations On PLEX and Custom SAS® Procedures One Approach to SAS® Training Optimizing IBM PC Systems for SAS® Software PC Hardware Considerations for SAS/GRAPH® Software Graphics PROC GREPLAY -- Developing a Presentation That Your Users Will Appreciate PROC TRANSPOSE -A Powerful Tool for Data Restructuring Panel Discussion Performance and Feature Enhancements in the SAS® System under VMS (5.16) Performing the Friedman Test and Associated Multiple Comparison Test using PROC GLM Permanent PROC FORMATs Preparing and Presenting Management Reports using SAS/AF® Software Processing Large Data Sets into Customized Tables Processing SAS® Software Code: Smart Filters Today, a Proposed PROC and a Smarter Display Manager Tomorrow Receipt Control and Assessment Monitoring for a Multisite Clinical Trial Report Writing with PROC PRINT and PROC QPRINT SAS/FSP® Software, SAS/DMI® Software, and SAS/AF® Software as Tools for Work Stations SAS/GRAPH® Annotate Application SAS/GRAPH® Software: Data Analysis, Presentation Graphics or Pretty Pictures? SAS/SHARE Software Overview and Features SAS® Macros Designed to Create Camera-Ready, "Typed "Tables Directly from SAS Data Sets SAS® Prototype Applications: Bringing Power to the End User SAS® Software Data Sets from NOMAD2 SAS® Software Implementation of Rockart and Treacy's Data Cube: a Typical Executive Information System SAS® Software Installation-Things Your Site Representative Never Told You SAS® System Interfaces to Data Base Management Systems SAS® System Statistical Procedures Applied to the Analysis of Water Quality Data SAS® System to IDMS/R Interface Overview SAS® Training in an Information Center's Diverse Environment SYSTEM 2000® Data Management Services and the SAS® Macro Language Sampling Very Large Datasets from SAS® Software: PROC RANDOM and PROC RANSTRAT Sampling with SAS® Software: A Macro for Drawing PPS Samples Screening for Potential Confounders in an Epidemiologic Analysis Seasonal Adjustment Operations of Canadian Socio-Economic Time Series Simulating 2-D Gel Electrophoretograms using Techniques from Version 5 SAS® Software Software Mirrors in a Mainframe/Microcomputer Environment Some Applications of PROC MATPAR: Match Pair Partial Correlation Procedure Some Useful Features in PROC REG Speech Recognition, the PC, and SAS® Software Speller: A Mainframe Spelling Checker Strategies for Development of a Corporate Graphics Center Strategies for Repeated Measures Analysis of Variance Supporting End-User Computing through Full-Featured SAS® Files Supporting SAS® Software in an Academic Environment TABLETS-A Table Generator Teaching Technical Subjects to Adult Learners Techniques for Using SAS/AF® Software More Efficiently The Analysis of Mapped Spatial Point Patterns The Analysis of Survival Data with Concomitant Information using Parametric Models: PROC HAZARD and PROC HAZPRED The Bayesian Estimation of Linear Models: An Application of the Lindley-Smith Hyperparameter Model The Busman's Holiday: Automating the Systems Development Process The Design and Programming of Large Systems using SAS® Software The Development of CHESMAP-A Program for Mapping Environmental Data The Evolution of a Plot The Generation of User Defined Reports Using SAS® Macros The Information Center: The Growing Pains and the Adolescent Years The Information Centre at AEtna Life in Sydney Australia The Internals of Macro Processing The SAS® Supervisor The SAS® System for Personal Computers and Electronic Data Recorders at a Field Location The SAS® System under CMS: Tricks of the Trade The Traveling Salesman Problem and the SAS® System The Wild Side of. the Annotate Facility Time Series Intervention Analysis Using SAS® Software Tools for Accessing SYSTEM 2000® DBMS Data Using SAS® Software Training Manufacturing Management Using the SAS® System Training Support for the SAS® System for Personal Computers Transfer Functions using PROC ARIMA Treatment of Lagged Dependent Regressors and Autocorrelated Errors in SAS/ETS® Software Tuning the SAS® System under CMS Understanding the SAS® Macro Facility Use of Base SAS® Software as a Teaching Language for an Introduction to Information Systems in a University Environment Use of SAS® Procedures for Estimating Design Based Logistic Regression Variances by Balanced Repeated Replication (BRR) Use of Version 5 SAS® Software Explicitly Subscripted Arrays to Perform Bioavailability Calculations User Interface Tools and the Design of Interactive Systems User-Written Procedures in C User-written Procedures in Version 5 Using Formats to Enhance the Appearance of Your Reports Using New Features of Release 11.5 of SYSTEM 2000® DBMS Using PROC NLIN to Develop Capture Ratios Using SAS/GRAPH® Software on IBM Mainframes with Coax-attached PCs Using SAS/GRAPH® Software to Display Box-Whisker Plots Using SAS/GRAPH® Software with a Protocol Converter Using SAS/IML ""Software -A Multivariate Control Chart Example Using SAS® Software Graphical Procedures for the Observer Agreement Chart Using SAS® Software as the Focal Point in Developing Integrated Systems Using SAS® Software to Develop a Prototype for Determining Participant Profiles and for Assessing Potential Relationships Among Health Insurance Variables Using SAS® Software to Pass Data to IBM's Graphical Data Display Manager Using SAS® Software to Provide Information Feedback to Subjects in a Long-Term Study Using SAS® Software to Quantify Dissimilarity among Environmental Samples Using SAS® Software to Write a SAS® Program: A Practical Introduction and a Survey Processing Sample Using WINDOW and DISPLAY in the SAS® System for PCs for the Patient Registry of the VA Coronary Artery Surgery Study Using the SAS/C ""Compiler on the IBM Mainframe Using the SAS/GRAPH® Software Interface to GDDM Using the SAS® System with Another Programming Language Using the SAS® System with Relational and Hierarchical Data Utilization of SAS® Software to Solve Transportation Problems VISUALS: Experimental Software for Dynamic Hyperdimensional Graphics Variance Component Estimation with the SAS® System What Good is the SAS® System for Personal Computers? What's New from the Education Division at SAS Institute Inc. Writing Customized Reports Using the DATA Step XMERGE: A Generalized Macro for Subsetting and/or Expanding SAS® Data Sets XRECALL: An Enhanced Replacement for the DMS RECALL Command