SUGI 15 Proceedings
Nashville, Tennessee
April 1 - 4, 1990
Tony L. Ona, Conference Chair
Proceedings Index
All documents are in PDF format.
&&&&&&&&&&SAS - Resolving This and Other SAS
® Code Challenges
Warren Repole, Jr., Michael Hein, Veronica Fasullo, Kita Garrido
A Blueprint for Interactive PC-based Applications Development
A CMS EXEC for the Calculation of Exact P-Values Using the SAS
® System Noninteractively
A Cross-Reference Listing Program for SAS
® Software Macros
A Hierarchical Database Engine for Version 6 of the SAS' System
A Macro-driven System for Background Graph Generation
A Mainframe SAS/FSP
® Mailing List System
Carolyn Williams, Tamara R. Fischell
A Managerial Approach to Tracking Staff Assignments Using SAS/AF
® and SAS/FSP
® Software
William F. Simpson, Jr., Leonard Bruckman
A Methodology for Computer Performance Evaluation in the Apollo
® Domain/OS Environment
A Multisite Data Collection and Analysis System Based on the SAS System
Raymond L. Ransom, Allen W. Hightower, Brian D. Plikaytis
A Programmers Tool Using SAS/AF
® Software
A SAS/AF
® Procedure Using Regression Analysis to Estimate Remaining Recoverable Petroleum Reserves
Karen L. Bice, Kim Wallis, Bernard Couderc
A SAS
® Macro Based System for the Preparation of Data for Comparative Bioavailability Analysis
Kelly K. Antony, Laurie T. Elstun
A SAS
® Macro for Testing for Compound Symmetry and the Hunyh-Feldt Condition
A SAS
® Macro for the Box-Cox Transformation: Estimation and Testing
A SAS
® Software-based System for Tracking Clinical Study Case Record Forms Utilizing Bar Codes
A Simple Method of Producing a Ratio Table
A Software Interface between the SAS' System and ORACLE'
A Solution to Unique Match-Merge Situations
A Study in Repetition Resulting in a Utility Macro for Substitution
A Survival Kit for Academic Consultants or How to Keep Users from Stealing Your Job
Sandra Robinson St. George, Dusty Teaf
A Tutorial on SAS/IML
® Graphics
A Tutorial on the NETFLOW Procedure in SAS/OR
® Software
ANALYSIS OF COVARIANCE: REPEATED IfEASURES AND SPLIT-Plur DESIGNS
Adult Education Student Tracking System
Aids in Data Checking
Alternative Methods of Estimating Piecewise Linear and Higher Order Regression Models Using SAS
® Software
Lawrence C. Marsh, Manjula Maudgal, Jaishankar Raman
Alternative Parameterization for Anova Models Using SAS
® Software
An Automated, Intelligent Algorithm for GPLOT Procedure and PLOT Procedure Graphics Axis Scaling
An Exploratory Data Analysis Approach to Qualitative Response Modeling Using SAS/IML
® and SAS/GRAPH
® Software
Merwyn L. Elliott, Ross Hightower, Caleb Chan
An In-House SAS
® Users Group as Utilized by an Electric Utility Corporation
Darlene M. Gerber, Allan M. Kominek, Richard T. Hamper
An Interactive Front End for a Data Editing Procedure Using SAS
® Windows
Lawrence R. Catlett, Lance W. Cameron
An Introduction to SAS/GRAPH
® Software for New or Nervous Users
An Introduction to Screen Control Language with the FSEDIT Procedure
Annette T. Harris, Ann E. Carpenter, Glenn H. Itano
An Online System for SAS
® Information Exchange Using SAS/AF,' SAS/FSP
® and SAS/SHARE
® Software
Analysis of Covariance: Repeated Measures and Split-Plot Designs
Analyzing Balanced or Unbalanced Latin Squares and Other Repeated-Measures Designs for Carryover Effects Using the GLM Procedure
D. A. Ratkowsky, J. R. Alldredge, J. W. Cotton
Analyzing a Regression Model with a General Positive Definite Covariance Matrix with the SAS
® System
Analyzing and Reporting Fixed Effects in the Real World
Andrews Function Control Chart for Bivariate Quality Control
Meng-Koon Chua, Mark Reiser
Aspects of LAN-Based Decision Support Systems
Basic Text Handling with the DATA Step
Best Presentation of Data-Color
Best Presentation of Data-Monochrome
Better Forecasting with SAS/ETS
® Software
Buffering the SAS
® System VSAM Performance Headaches
Build a Production System in SAS
® Macro
But I Don't Want to Learn the SAS
® System, System 2000
® Software, Communications, or Timesharing to Get My Report
CAMS: A System Built on Three Platforms: Useful Techniques
CARDS: An Inverted List Database Created Using SAS
® Software
CBT versus Instructor-led Classes
CPU Load Forecasting Using the ARIMA Procedure
Calculating the Jonckheere-Terpstra Test Statistic Using the SAS
® System under VMS. .
Calling IBM
® Programs and Products from C
Changes and Enhancements to Version 6 Procedures
Classroom Presentation Techniques
Comparing Two Files
Humberto Mendez, Peter Russell
Comparison of SAS/GRAPH
® with Other Mainframe Graphics Software
Computation of Variances of Functions of Parameter Estimates for Mixed Models in the GLM Procedure
Ramon C. Littell, Stephen B. Linda
Confidence Intervals and Curvature Measures in Nonlinear Regression Using the IML and NLIN Procedures in SAS
® Software
Danny L. Kugler, E. Henry Lee
Conquering the Dreaded Macro Error
Constructing Integrated Clinical Information Systems for Traditional and Nontraditional Users
Consulting, Counseling, and Consoling: The Rest of the Story
Converting SAS/DB2'"Applications from Version 5 to Version 6
Converting SAS
® Data Libraries under MVS from a Version 5 to a Version 6 Format: When and How
Converting Version 5 Files to Release 6.06 Files: Using the V5TOV6 Procedure
Creating PMENUs for Application Windows
Creating a Variable for Collapsing a File Using the FORMAT Procedure
Creating and Managing an SQL'"Database with the SAS' System
Criteria for Moving a SAS
® Application to SYSTEM 2000
® Data Management Software
Current and Future Enhancements of Version 6 .of the SAS
® System under CMS
DB2' and the SAS' System - Information Delivery for the 1990s
DB2'"Performance Management: A Strategy Using DB2PM and SAS
® Software
DB2'"and SAS/DB2' Software "EXPLAINed
Data Center Service Level Management System
David B. Horne, Raymond R. Messmer
Data Management Procedures for Large and Small Projects
Data Reduction and Summary Statistics in the DATA and PROCEDURE Steps Efficiency Considerations
Michael Hein, Judith H. Mopsik
Debugging Your SAS
® Macro Application under VMS'": A Practical Approach
Jodie M. Gilmore, Linda Helwig
Determining Sample Sizes Needed to Achieve the Specified Confidence Levels - Binomial Distribution Approach
Determining Weight Values for EWMA Control Schemes Using the ARIMA Procedure
Determining and Profiling MVS System Activity with MXG
® and SAS
® Software
Developing Release 6.03 SAS/AF
® Applications as a Statistical Teaching Aid
L. M. Harschnitz, Laurie A. Abell
Developing User Applications Using the FSVIEW Procedure in Release 6.06 SAS/FSP
® Software
Developing User Applications with SAS/AF
® Software for PCs: The SAFARI Extract Generator Experiences
Disk Inventory and Control System: A REXX Tool for the Management of SAS
® Databases under CMS
Displaying Multiple Graphic Output
EVAL: An Application of SAS/ASSIST
® Software to Forecast Evaluation
Philip E. Friend, Linda P. Atkinson
Easier User Interface with SET and MERGE Macros
Effective Use of SAS/CONNECT "Software
Effectively Grappling with Graphics
Effectively Using the FSEDIT Procedure
Efficient Data Summary: A Comparison of PROC and DATA Step Techniques
Sandra D. Iverson, Susan J. Slaughter
Efficient Use of SAS Institute's Technical Support
Enhancements to the User Interface in Version 6 of the SAS
® System under MVS and VM
Enhancing SAS/GRAPH
® Output with the Annotate Facility
Enhancing Your Graphics Output Using New Features in Version 6
Error Bars with Line Graphs and Bar Charts
Shuching Shaw, Bernard Most
Establishing SAS
® Software at a Large Corporation
Estimating Standard Errors for a Proposed Survey
Samuel M. Slowinski, Hank Leddon
Estimation of Area Under Concentration - Time Curves (AUC) Using the LAG Function and the Trapezoidal Rule
R. A. Rogers, W. L. Tippitt
FILE and PUT Statements
FocusEZ: The User-Friendly, Full-Screen, Menu-Driven Utility for Using SAS
® Software with FOCUS
® Databases
Formatted Tables: SAS
® Macro Programs
Will A. Sullivan, Sharon M. Haney, Harvie Chang, Gary Stephens
Fun and Games with the LENGTH and LABEL Statements
Future Directions for NeoVisuals
® Software
Getting the Most from Your Release 6.06 SAS
® Session under OS/2
®
Gracefully Handling Empty Files in the SAS
® System
Matt Kleinosky, Orion V. Hanger
How SAS/AF
® Software, Other Version 6 Products, and Screen Control Language (SCL) Can Help You Make a Presentation (and Test Your Country Music Knowledge)
How to Get the Most Out of Your SYSTEM 2000
® Data Management Software
David W. Pitts, Roy D. Vance
How to Stop a Simulation
Michael A. Greene, Gretchen K. Jones
Hypotheses and Sample Size for Showing Equivalence
IUPUI Test Scoring System - Using the SAS
® System and REXX under CMS and MVS
Dave Rutherford, Shu-Yeng Wong
If an Axis Is Too Long for the PAGESIZE=, LINESIZE=, HSIZE=, or VSIZE= Options PANELIZE Routines
Importing Data from External Files to NeoVisuals
® Software
Increasing the Value of Graphics Using the SAS
® Annotate Facility
Inside SAS
® Catalogs in Version 6 of the SAS
® System
Institute Support for SAS
® Users Groups
Pamela Meek, Sally A. Roberson
Integrating Graphics into a Document Using SAS/GRAPH
® Software and WordPerfect
® 5.0
Anne C. Neale, John E. Teberg, Brian N. Cordova
Integrating SYSTEM 2000
® Data Management Software and the SAS
® System: Getting Started
Integrating the SAS
® System with DOS Applications
Interactive Random Sampling
Ashok Mehta, Paul H. Bern
Interfacing Normalized Relational Database Structures with SAS Software
James R. Johnson, Roger D. Cornejo
Introducing New Computer Users to Release 6.06 of the SAS
® System
Beverly Wells, Jean Ussery
Introduction to CPE Using the Mainframe and PC
Introduction to Interlanguage Communication with the SAS/C
® Compiler
JMP° Tutorial
Linear Programming Meets SAS/AF
® Software
Danielle L. Johnson, Martin J. Collette
Loan Comparison and Analysis
Look Ma, No DATA Step! An Introduction to SAS/FSP
® Software
MIS - A Decision Support System for Management
Brigitta Wagner, Kristina Hogberg
Mainframe-based PC Software Maintenance
Making More with Less - Inventing the Three-Dimensional Pie'Chart Using Release 5.18 of SAS
® Software
Management Reporting for Capacity Planning and Computer Performance Evaluation
Managing a Multi-vendor DBMS Environment with the SAS' System
Managing a Multiuser SAS
® Database with Version 6 SAS/AF
® Software: Generic Tasks
Manipulating Data Sets and Views from Screen Control Language
Manpower, Personnel, Training, and Qualitative Analysis System (MPTQ): A SAS
® Software-based Application to Satisfy DoD Requirements
Aiman M. Zeid, Robert A. Butler
Mastering the SAS
® System Using Master Indexes
Menu-driven Interfaces Using SAS/FSP
® Software and the SAS
® Macro Language
Menuing Through the SAS
® System: Version 6
Migrating From PC DOS Systems to OS/2
® Systems - Hardware Considerations
Migrating from PC DOS Systems to OS/2
® Systems - Software Considerations
Modular Course Design: Develop and Deliver a Technical Course
Mortar and Bricks: Using Basic SAS
® System Procedures to Manipulate Your Data
Most Creative Use of the Software-Color
Most Creative Use of the Software-Monochrome
Multi-Criteria Decision Support System for Military Force Management
NeoVisuals
® Software: Year One At The University of Guelph
New Display Manager Features for Version 6 of the SAS
® System
Nifty Tricks: Using FSCALC "Templates "for Management Reporting
Rebecca A. Adams, A. Frederick Seaman, Jr.
Nonparametric Estimates and Confidence Intervals for the Medians and Difference in Medians Between Two Treatment Groups
Nonsymmetric Bootstrap Confidence Intervals Using SAS/IML
® Software on a PC
Organizing CMS Files Using the SORT Procedure, REXX, and FILELIST
Overview of SAS/GRAPH
® Procedures and Facilities
Overview of the SET, UPDATE, AND MERGE Statements
PERSPECT: Extracting Perspectives from Super-Encoded Data
PLOTCORR: A SAS
® Macro for Appending Correlation and Regression Statistics to the PLOT or GPLOT Procedures
Parameter Estimation For Models Defined By Differential Equations
James E. Dunn, Kumiko Smith
Performance Considerations for the Database Engines
Performance of Multiple Comparisons in Repeated Measures Designs under Nonsphericity
Planned ESA/378'"Exploitation by the SAS
® System under MVS
Polychlorinated Biphenyls Information Management and Modeling System for the Unsaturated Soil Zone
Jing-Yea Yang, Shi-Tao Yeh, Frederick Bopp, III
Porting C to the IBM
® Mainframe Environment
Processing of External Data Sets in Version 6 under MVS
Amitava Ghosh, William F. Heffner, Hugh D. Landis
Program to Generate Atkinson's and Resistant Envelopes for Normal Probability Plots of Regression Residuals
Rafael Flores, Virginia F. Flack
Programming Techniques Using Choice Groups with Extended Tables in Version 6 SAS/AP Software
Programming with SAS
® Functions, with a Special Emphasis on SAS
® Dates and Times
Projecting Course Enrollments at Syracuse University Using the SAS
® System
Quick Start to C Using the SAS/C
® Mainframe Compiler
Real Men Do Use Menus: Developing Applications with SAS/AF
® Software
Reproduction of Ambulance Runs of the Chicago Fire Department
Resampling-Based Multiple Testing
Peter H. Westfall, Youling Lin, S. Stanley Young
Rod Mill Billet Surface Quality Reporting System
John A. McNamara, L. Richard Woodyatt
SAS Institute's Online Customer Support Facility
SAS/ACCESS
® Interface to ORACLE
® and Rdb/VMS;"Release 5.18 and Release 6.06 of the SAS
® System
SAS/ASSIST Software under Release 6.06
Katherine J. Roggenkamp, Gail Kramer, K. Deva Kumar
SAS/GRAPH
® Software Meets the Logo Turtle
SAS/GRAPH
® Software and Numerical Taxonomy
SAS/GRAPH
® Software to Macintosh
®: A User's Experience on -a VAX "System
SAS
® Commands from the CMS Command Line
SAS
® Macros for Source. Program Tracking
John H. King, Donna S. Goldstein
SAS
® Software Performance in the Persona! Computer Environment
Donald R. Deese, John D. Ebner
SAS
® Software and the Single Research Scientist
SAS
® System Performance on 80386 Class PCs
SIGNIF, a C Function to Compute Significant Digits
B. M. Horwedel, J. E. Horwedel
SUN_Q: Measuring Customer Delight Using SAS
® and Sybase
® Software
Claire Casteil, Paul Desjardins
Scheduling Programming Projects Using SAS/OR
® Software in Version 6 of the SAS
® System
Scientific Workstations and SAS
® Software: Getting Jobs Completed
Screen Control Language - An Invaluable Tool in Applications Development
Segmenting the Tourist Market Using Factor Analysis and Cluster Analysis
Marcus Schmidt, Hans Merser
Selecting Optimal Branch Locations Based on Geographic Distribution of Service Call Volume
Shortcuts to Customize Clinical Trial Reports
Software Tools for Processing U.S. Census Bureau TIGER Line Files
John G. Blodgett, John McIntyre
Solving 2,000 SAS
® Problems a Year. Help Desk Personnel -Solutions Faster Than a Speeding SAS
® User
Robert G. Hall, Catherine Schmitt
Solving Business Needs as a Team
Solving Grouping Problems: Using the POINT= Option
Sponsoring SAS
® Training through a Local Users Group
Standards and Macros: The Keystroke Busters!
StatLab Revenue System
Strategies for Planning and implementing the Conversion of SAS
® Applications from Version 5 to Version 6
Harriet Janes, Sarah Dietrich
Subsetting and Combining SAS
® Map Data Sets to Produce Custom Maps
Table Lookup without a Table
Teaching the SAS
® Programming Language to Programmers and Nonprogrammers
The Analysis of Data from 2 X 2 Crossover Trials with Baseline Measurements
Joe DiGennaro, William C. Huster
The Bootstrap and Jackknife Estimates of Variance: Two Resampling Techniques Using Release 6.03 of SAS/IML
® Software
Margaret G. Hirsch, Tamara R. Fischell
The Calculation of Average Run Length for a Nonparametric CUSUM Procedure
Dennis W. King, Michael T. Longnecker
The Consultant's Life Is/Is Not A Happy One
The Development of an Integrated Tracking Application in an Information Systems Environment
The Distribution of Cronbach's Coefficient Alpha from the CORR Procedure of SAS
® Software
Andrew J. Cucchiara, Susan J. Kenny, J. Paul Costiloe
The Distribution of the SAS
® System for PCs via a Mainframe Computer
The GLIM Procedure: An Interface to the SAS
® System
P. M. Grambsch, Jon L. Kosanke, Terry M. Therneau, D. J. Schaid, R. Zinsmeister, H.S. Wieand, Kenneth P. Offord, J. J. LarsonKeller
The Hazardous Exposure Computer Control System
The Impact of Machine Architecture on the Implementation of the SAS
® System
The Painless Path to Release 6.06 of the SAS
® System
Robina Thornton, John C. Boling
The Patient Discharge Reporting System
The QUERY Window
The REPORT Procedure: Filling the Gap in Report Writing
Johnny B. Andrews, Lynn H. Patrick
The Relational versus Hierarchical Database Debate Continues
The SAS System for Statistical Graphics - A Preview
The SAS
® Documentation Library for Release 6.06 Software
John H. Gough, Sean M. Gargan
The SAS
® Macro: An Aid to the User
The SAS
® Multiuser interactive System in Version 6 of the SAS
® System
The SAS
® Supervisor - A Version 6 Update
Donald J. Henderson, Merry G. Rabb, Jeffrey A. Polzin
The SAS
® System - A Full-Featured Utility and Language for Programmers
The SAS
® System Earns an MBA: Using SAS
®Software in an MBA Economics Course
The SAS
® System as Simulation Language: An Application to Tunnel Construction Modeling
Ronald R. MacDonald, Shi-Tao Yeh, Guillermo F. Salazar
The SAS
® System as a Database Manager in Environmental Problems
Ronald R. MacDonald, Anthony B. Kreamer
The SAS
® System for PCs: A Time Saver from Spreadsheet to Mainframe
Jane C. Khoury, Philip R. Khoury, Vicki S. Hertzberg, Chih-Yu Chen, Richardus Ross
The SAS
® System for PCs: Management Reporting Using Data from External Sources
The SAS
® System for PCs: Some Speed Surprises
The SAS
® System on AIX "(OSF ") Platforms
The Secret Life of the SAS
® DATA Step
Tips and Techniques for Using I/O Subsystems in Version 6 of the SAS
® System under VMS.
Tips and Tricks on Rearranging and Manipulating Data and Datasets for Efficient Data Processing and Output Generation
Donald D.M. Tong, Thomas E. Schneider, Pan-Yu Lai
Transfer Function Model for Gloss Prediction of Coated Aluminum Using the ARIMA Procedure
Transferring SAS
® Data Sets with the XCOPY Procedure
Transporting Files in Release 6.06 of the SAS
® System
Duane E. Ressler, Holly Whittle
Tuning Version 6 of the SAS
® System under MVS
Unbiased Estimators of Shrinkage for Chi-Square Based Measures of Association
Updating Your SAS
® Training Program for Release 6.06 of the SAS
® System
Using Relational Database Technology and the SAS
® System to Develop SAS' System Applications under the VMS "Operating System
Using Release 6.06 of the SAS
® System for Financial Applications
Using Release 6.06 of the SAS
® System for Marketing Information Systems
Mike Senger, Richard Roach
Using SAS Macros to Automate Data Set Creation and Analysis for Epidemiologic Studies on a PC
William C. Murphy, Howard M. Proskin, Dennis H. Leverett
Using SAS/AF Software in a Marketing Information System
Using SAS/AF
® Program Screens to Create a Program Manager/ Document Producer for Data Editing
Robin L. Wright, Charles W. Kish, Jr., Wayne M. Cannon, Chris Bullard, David Martinez
Using SAS/AF
® Software to Transport SAS
® Data Files from the VMS'"Environment to an IBM
® OS Environment
Using SAS/CPE
® Software for Analysis of VMS'"Computer Performance Data
Using SAS/GRAPH
® Maps as a Nucleus For an Interactive Geographic Information System
J. Jacob Wind, Jeff VanGorder
Using SAS/GRAPH
® Software To Detect Medicaid Fraud
Using SAS/GRAPH
® Software to Analyze Student Study Habits
Using SAS/OR
® Project Management to Plan and Manage a Major Electric Generation Facility Outage
Using SAS
® Software to Create WordPerfect
® Files
Using SAS
® Software to Develop a Clinical Studies Status System
Using Variance Components and Confidence Contours to Estimate Numbers of Primary and Secondary Sampling Units
Using a NeXT "Workstation as a Development Platform for Version 5 SAS
® Applications
Using a SAS/AF
® Application to Calculate the Power of a Statistical Test
John F. Schneider, Robert A. McLean, William L. Sanders
Using the ADX Menu System for Taguchi Applications in Quality Improvement
Using the Annotate= Data Set to Highlight the Graphical Quality of the G3D Procedure
Using the DBLOAD Procedure to Create and Populate SYSTEM 2000' Data Management Software Databases
David W. Pitts, Kim D. Hiserote
Using the FORMAT Procedure to Enhance the Subsetting IF Statement in Table Lookup
Using the GSLIDE Procedure to Produce Data Collection Forms
Mark E. Rubey, Shirley H. Waters
Using the Interactive Features of the REG Procedure
Using the SAS/C
® Source Level Debugger's STORAGE Command Effectively
Using the SAS
® System for Data Collection under the VMS'"Operating System
Using the SAS
® System on a Microvax for a Computer Assisted Interviewing System
Veronica Fasullo, Thomas Trumble
Using the SAS
® System to Analyze Quality Control Data from Data-Collection Devices
Julie A. Maddox, Donna O. Fulenwider
Using the SAS
® System to Develop Some Experimental CASE Tools
Michael K. Burns, Hoy W. Rogers
Using the SAS
® System to Prepare Hospital Inpatient Claims Data for Case-Mix Analyses
Using the Semicolon: Put the Horse before the Cart and Other Tips for SAS
® Users
Using the Stored Program Facility
Using the Template Facility in the GREPLAY Procedure: Zoom, Rotate, Cut, and Paste Using the Panel Coordinates
Using the Version 6 SAS
® System with Your Operating System: Helpful Information Sources for Your Host Environment
What SAS/IML
® Software Has to Offer beyond the MATRIX Procedure
Working with Arrays
Working with the SUMMARY Procedure: An Introduction
Writing Efficient C Code for Optimizers
Writing Efficient SAS/DB2'"Applications in Version 6 of the SAS' System
Writing an 80386 C Compiler for the SAS
® System
introduction to the C Programming Language