SUGI 21 Proceedings

Chicago, Illinois
March 10-13, 1996
Paul Grant, Conference Chair

Proceedings Index

All documents are in PDF format.

"OK, Just Don't Spend Too Much Time on It ..." %FLATFILE, and Make Your Life Easier %Print Drivers: Teaching SAS Software to Speak the Many Languages of Document Publication A Client/Server Solution Using the SAS System for Electronic Submissions to the FDA A Generic Survey Analysis System A Macro System for Calling PROC GPLOT for General Usage but Also Having a Major Application for PROC LlFETEST and PHREG Plots A Macro That Prevents Column Overwriting A Macro to Word Wrap Long Text Strings into a SAS Array A Plan to Implement the LlMU Model by a Slight Modification of the Current MIXED Procedure A Plug and Play Data Entry Audit Trail System A Relational Database Primer tor SAS Programmers A SAS Macro Using PROC MEANS to Report Data Completeness Rates of Predefined Dimensions and Subdimensions of Variables A SAS Macro for validating a Logistic Model with Split Sample and Bootstrap Methods A SAS Program for the Assessment of Unbalanced Data in Two- Sequence, Three-Period CrossoverTrials A Simple Macro TutorialĀ· Not an Oxymoron A Simple Methodology for Developing Clinical Reporting Macros A Simple Way to Create a Clinical Trial Study Data Dictionary A Simplified Approach Using Macro Techniques to Create a Clinical Data Reporting System A Statistical Analysis Macro Library in SAS Software A Study of Kinetics: The Estimation and Simulation of Systems of First Order Differential Equations A Tutorial on Bootstrapping in the SAS System AData Warehouse Using the SAS System AProductive Word Wrap Macro Accessing Non SAS Data Files on Remote Servers via ODBC Advanced DATA Step Topics and Tips Advanced Features of PROC REPORT Workshop Advanced Features of PROC TABULATE Advanced Topics in PROC REPORT Advanced Uses of SAS Formats Allocation of Military Engines to Fighter Aircraft: A SAS/OR Application An Electronic Roadmap to SAS Discussion and Support An Integrated Clinical Data Management System in SAS An Introduction to Developing Applications with SAS/ AF FRAME Entries An Introduction to PROC SOL An Introduction to SAS/FSP Software An Introduction to UNIX Shell Programming and the SAS System An SQL Tutorial - Some Random Tips Analysis of Unbalanced Mixed Model Data Arrays: APowerful Time Saver Automated Installation of SAS on Multiple Operating Systems Beating Student's t and the Bootstrap - USing SAS Software to Generate Conditional Confidence Intervals for Means Better Low-Cost InfoGeographics Today: Improved Readability and Usability for PROC GMAP Output Bridging the Gap between SAS Applications Developers and Database Administrators Bridging the Gap: Using ODBC to Grab Data Stored in a SAS Data Warehouse for Reporting in Microsoft Access Building Applications That Contain Graphics Objects Building a Data Table Project Management Application Building a Data Warehouse with SAS Software: Recipe for Success Building an Efficient Data Warehouse: Understanding the Issues of Data Summarization and Partitioning Building and UsingĀ %WINDOW Applications CRSP Data Retrieval and Event Study Analysis in $AS Software: Sample Programs and Programming Tips Changes and Enhancements in Release 6.11 of the SAS System for Open Systems Character-Based and Object-Oriented Reporting with SAS Procedure and PUT Style Output: Annotate Character Based Reports! Chart Smart: Design Graphs That Inform and Influence Choosing an Application Development Tool for Your CANDA Client/Server Performance Testing: Practical Results You Can Use Right Away ClinAccess: An Integrated Client/Server Approach to Clinical Data Management and Regulatory Approval Color Application Design for Effective Visual Communication Comparing Release 6.11 of the SAS System for Microsoft Windows 95 and Windows NT Computer Validation and the SAS System Computing Min and Max Scorings for Two-Sample Ordinal Data Conditional Execution of the Drop Statement as Well as Omer Global and Declarative Statements Configuring and Using ODBC with SAS/ACCESS Software Conjoint and Beyond: Clustering and Logistic Regression of Attribute Importance Conversion to SAS Software from Other 4GL Languages Counting on Base SAS Software Creating SOL Stored Procedures with Text Templates Creating Winning Graphs Creating Your First Data Entry System Using PROC FSEDIT Creating Your First Data Entry System Using PROC FSEDIT Creating a Graph 'from an ASCII File That was Used to Populate a Word Processing Table Creating a PC-based Information System: An Evolutionary/ Revolutionary Visionary Approach Creating and Linking Customized SCL Objects Cross Platform Generation of Reports from Oracle Using SAS on MVS, Macintosh and A/X Customized Reports from PROC LlFETEST Data Management in Clinical Trials Made Easy Data Summary: Beyond the Basics Data Transfer between SAS Software and Other PC Software Data Warehouse + Microsoft Windows NT = A Perfect Solution for Client/Server Computing Data about Data: An Introduction to Dictionary Tables Data-Independent Application Development with SAS/ AF Software FRAME Entry Database Marketing and Business Geographies Decision Support - A Quick Turnaround System Using SAS Software Delving into the Data Warehouse: Levels of Analysis for a Three-Tier Survey Analysis System Determining the Expected Mean Squares and Subsequent Power Calculations: An Application to Biostatistics Developing Applications &Development Tools Using Release 6.11 of the SAS System Developing Applications the SAM Way Developing Applications with The SAS System Developing Native Help for SAS/AF Applications Developing a Theatre Information Tool Using the $AS System DevlS: Motorola's Near-Real-Time Device and Visualization System Using SAS/AF Software and SCL Easy Economic Extraction ex Enormous Entities (or Big Becomes Beautiful) Enumeration Technique for Efficient Clinical Laboratory Reports Estimating Optimal Transformations in Non-Linear Models Estimating and Evaluating Correlation Structures in Repeated Measures Designs Using the GLM and MIXED Procedures Exact Methods in the NPAR1WAY Procedure Examining the File Contribution Server: Interesting Applications Experiences with Remote Library Services, Choosing the Right Platform Exploring Economic Time Series with PROC ARIMA Extending SAS/EIS Software FRAME Your Mainframe Batch Applications FRAME Your View of Data with the SQL Procedure FRAME-Ing Graphs: Using Graphical FRAME Objects to Replace PROC GREPLAY and Templates FSLETTER for a Very Detailed Report Find SAS Errors and Make Corrections Quicker: An Enhancement of the VMS EVE Editor Fine-tuning Project Management of Clinical Data Processing with SAS Software From MVS to UNIX: A SAS/AF Migration Tool From Report and Analysis Plan to SAS Report Programs - The Mass Production of Report Skeleton Programs Fully Integrated Systems for Clinical Development in the PharmaceuticalIndustry Gaining Efficiency with SAS Software Getting Subtotals and Percentages: It's Never Been So Easy Getting a FRAME Entry Application Built in a Research Environment Getting into a New FRAME Of Mind-OOP with SAS Software FRAME Entry Hands-on Workshop for the FSEDIT and FSVIEW Procedures Health Care Applications of Statistical Process Control: Examples Using the SAS System Health Care Atlas of New York State Using SAS/GRAPH Software Health Care Transformation: The Role of Technology Helping Nonstatisticians Visualize Quantitative Relationships: Using JMP Software's Unique Visualization Tools in the Business Environment Helping the HELPLINE - SASIAF to the Rescue: A Step-by-Step Guide Hidden Gems in the SAS System Households Touched by Crime: A Method for Counting Clusters of Units Affected by an Event of Interest How SAS Software Users Can Benefit from the Internet How to Handle a Hot Date (Fancy and Not So Fancy Date Manipulation with SAS Software) Implementation of a Barcode Interface to an Existing SAS Database Using SAS/AF and SAS/FSP Software, and SAS Screen Control Language Improving the Quality of Survey Data through an Interactive Data Analysis System Imputation of Data Missing Due to Truncation --- A SAS Macro for Maximum Likelihood Estimates Using Symmetry Property Integrating SAS Software into a Legacy System or How to Keep a Foot in the 21st Century While Dragging along the 19th Integrating the SAS System for Personal Computers into Your Enterprise Introducing Release 6.11 of the SAS System for Personal Computer Introduction to SAS/GRAPH Software It's Not a Bug, It's a Feature JOining Strategies Access to All Data Latent-Variable, Structural-Equation Modeling with PROC CALIS Let Them Build Their Own Reports List-Less Code: Energizing Your FRAME Programs Using SCL Lists LlFCO - A SAS Application for Container Information in the Maritime Cargo Industry Loading a Data Warehouse with Legacy Data MACRO Facifity Enhancements for Release 6.09E and Release 6.11 MARS Modeling in SAS Software USing the Macro Interface to B34S MIS Swiss Telecom PTT MImic Your Business Process with SAS/EIS Software Macros for Calculating Block and Rolling Averages Macros to Create 3-Dimensional Plots and Charts with SAS/GRAPH Software Mainframe Directions Making Sense Out of Census Data Making the VISUAL Leap From PROC TABULATE to SASIGRAPH Software Managing SAS Data Sets: A Database Management Perspective Managing Data for a Long-Term Clinical Research Study with SAS/ASSIST Software Managing SAS/AF Application Development on a Local Area Network Mission Impossible: The Trials of SAS Support in a Health Care Research Group More Informative Scatter Plots - Adding a Third Dimension with Bubbles Multiple Plots Per Page? Graphics and Template Catalogs Make It Easy Multiproject Scheduling Using SASjOR Software New Age Marketing: Past Life Regression vs. LogisticRegression No More Merge-Alternative Table Lookup Techniques ODBC: Windows to the Outside World OLE and the SAS System for Windows Release 6.11 Online Documentation of the SAS System: Release 6.11 and Beyond Open Systems Solutions to Large File Requirements Optimally Matching Officers to Jobs Using SAS/OR Software Overcoming List, Subclass, and Extended Table Anxiety PROC REPORT: An Introduction to the Batch Language PROC REPORT; A Hands-on Introduction to the Batch Language Pairwise Matching of Sample and Control Groups Using PROC FASTCLUS Passing Statistical Results from SAS Procedures to Word Documents Persistent Storage of SCL Data Objects Power Techniques for Processing Large Tape Data Sets Using the SAS System in the MVS Environment Program Flow Control in Looping Code Structures Programming for Job Security: Tips and Techniques to Maximize Your Indispensability Quick and Easy AF Applications Using SAS/ASSIST Software, SAS Data Views, Block Menus and HTML RAD Using The Data Form &Data Table Objects in SAS/AF Software for Release 6.11 RAD with SAS Software: Strategies, Techniques, and TipS Rapid Information System Development: Evaluating the Billing Practices of 1,400 Attorneys Using aSAS/FSP Application Developed in 30 Hours Rapid Record Matching via FORMATS and CNTLIN Data Sets Reading and Writing Character Data Real Time Data Collection with SAS System Applications Receiving &Distributing Data Nationally: A SAS Software Solution to HEDIS Reporting Redesigning a Legacy: Techniques of a Quality Partner Remote and OPEN Access to Enterprise Data: Enhanced Distributed Data Access Through Multiple Engine Architecture Repeated Measures - A Better way? Repeated Measures Analysis with Discrete Data Using the SAS System Residence Data Warehouse: Pacific Bell "Jumps "to WARP Speed Retrieving Weather Data from the Internet and Analyzing Using the SAS System Rollback of SAS Relational Databases to Former Historical States SAS Connections to DB2: Tools and Techniques SAS Measures Up: Computing System Metrics in Boeing's REDARS Project SAS Program Efficiency for Beginners SAS Programming Standards or Nobody's Gonna Tell Me What to Do! SAS Software On Display: An Introduction to the SAS Display Manager SAS Software Tips: My Experience as a SAS-L MVP SAS Software and the WWW - What Next? SAS Software for Road Warriors and Telecommuters: How to Avoid the Floppy Shuffle SAS Software to the Rescue! A UNIX System Administrator's Tool SAS Software: A PowerfulDevelopment Tool for Statistical Decision Support System SAS Software: One Stop Shopping for Re-engineering SAS Tools &Internet SAS/AF FRAME Entries: A Hands-on Introduction SAS/AF FRAMES: List Objects SAS/AF Software - A Grand Tour SAS/EIS Software - SPRINTing to the Rescue SAS/GRAPH Software: Doing More with Less ANNOTATE SAS/SPECTRAVIEW, A First Look at Your Data SELECT ITEMS FROM PROC SQL WHERE ITEMS >BASICS; SELECT ITEMS FROM PROC.SQL WHERE ITEMS >BASIC SUM Enchanted Procedure: The Advanced Power of PROC SUMMARY SW-PQNG: A Life Cycle Model for Small Development Teams Screen Design For Frame Entries Security for SAS Servers Self-Documenting Programs and Data Sets Severity Analysis Using Ridits SimBusiness - Practical Applications in Business Simulation Using QSIM Simplifying SAS/GRAPH Production Using Utility Macros Software Validation and Testing Solving Business Problems with the SOL Procedure Some Not Widely Known or Sometimes Poorly Understood Features of Base SAS Software Strategic Uses of SAS DATA Step Programming and SOL Passthrough to Query ORACLE Databases Systematic Sampling for Nonrandom Populations TADPOLE: An Application for Evaluation of the State of Tennessee's Alcohol and Drug Prevention Program Using the SAS System Taking Advantage of Inheritance in SAS/AF Applications Teaching the SAS System as an Academic Subject Telecom Industry of the 90s: Information Delivery for a Competitive Advantage Temporal and Geographical Statistical Modeling: A New Paradigm Test of Hypotheses in Repeated Measures Models Under General Antedependence Covariance Structures in SAS Software The Dirty Dozen: Twelve Common Programming Mistakes The Elements of SAS Programming Style The MODULE Function in Release 6.11 of the SAS System: An OS/2 Experience The Push to 'Get Off the Mainframe' and Move to Client/Server: Is the Software Industry Keeping Up with the Demand for Data Storage and Access? The Road to Discovery The Secret Life of the DATA Step The Singleton Class In Screen Control Language The Use of the SAS Programming Language and Procedures to Model and Process Data Used in Creating the New U.S. Mortality Atlas Tips and Techniques for Data Fixes in a Repository Data Warehouse Tips on JMPing into Mixture Experimentation Transforming Accounting Transactions into Customer Lifetime Values Transforming SAS Data Sets Using Arrays Tuning Tips for Applications That Use SAS/SHARE Software Two Techniques for Creating Report Quality Tables of Numerous Variables Two Ways Non-Experts Can Profitably Use PROC REPORT Unbalanced Panel Data Estimation Using SAS/lML Software Unpacking the Boxes from the Data Warehouse Useful SAS/GRAPH Tools for a Production Environment User Support at SAS Institute: Using SAS Software for Problem and Request Management Tracking Using Dynamic Data Exchange (DOE) to Pass Data to Microsoft Word Documents from within the SAS System Using Dynamic Data Exchange (DOE) to Pass Data to and from Microsoft Excel Spreadsheets from within the SAS System Using Lists To Replace Formats in SCL Applications Using Macros as a Data Table Generation Tool Using Options to Improve Report Appearance Using PROC ARIMA to Test an Intervention Effect Using PROC PLAN for Randomization Assignments Using SAS Software to Assess and Adjust for Nonlinearity in Nonlinear RegreSSion Models Using SAS Software to Perform Meta-Analytic Integrations Using SAS Software to Perform Multivariate Adjustment of Regression Coefficients Corrected for Regression Dilution Bias Using SAS Views for Data Source Visualization Using SAS/EIS Software to Front End and Exploit Your Data Warehouse Using SAS/STAT Software for Nonparametric 2-Way Analysis of Variance: A Biomedical Device Process Validation Problem Using SASlETS Software to Develop a Forecasting Model Using SLIST Catalog Entries to Store FRAME Entry Object Information Using a SAS Data Set to Expand the Program Data Vector Using the REPORT Procedure in a Batch Environment: Dealing with Format Limitations and RAM Requirements Using the SAS System to Detect Differential Item Functioning Visualizing Your Data on Your Floor Plans with PROC GMAP WHATIToo: Documentation Automatically Produced by Your SAS Program Warehouse NOW! Blasting through to Legacy Data with (Almost) No Programming Whet your Application APpetite with DSGI Why Knowing about Our Customers Helps Our Business: A Practical Application of Business Intelligence Software Working with Classes In SAS/AF FRAME Entries, Release 6.11 Working with SAS Date and Time Functions Year 2000 and SAS or Where's Fred? You Want Me to Move How Many Thousand Fifes from MVS to UNIX?