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 ..."
Henry B. Winsor, Brian L. Bournival
%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
Brian L. Bournival, Henry B. Winsor
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
Mazen Abdellatif, Thomas Moritz, Uzy Thottapurathu, Domenic J. Reda
A SAS Macro for validating a Logistic Model with Split Sample and Bootstrap
Methods
Kwan Hur, Charles A. Oprian, William G. Henderson, Sharon Urbanski, Bharat K.
Thakkar
A SAS Program for the Assessment of Unbalanced Data in Two- Sequence,
Three-Period CrossoverTrials
Annpey Pong, Shein-Chung Chow
A Simple Macro TutorialĀ· Not an Oxymoron
A Simple Methodology for Developing Clinical Reporting Macros
Paul M. Gilbert, Steven Light
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
Vivienne Ward, Carl R. Haske
A Study of Kinetics: The Estimation and Simulation of Systems of First Order
Differential Equations
Donald Erdman, Maurice M. Morelock
A Tutorial on Bootstrapping in the SAS System
AData Warehouse Using the SAS System
Harriet Janes, Terry L. Lewis, Shirley Dixon
AProductive Word Wrap Macro
Frank Liu, Monte E. Jarvis
Accessing Non SAS Data Files on Remote Servers via ODBC
Advanced DATA Step Topics and Tips
Neil H. Howard, Cynthia L. Zender
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
Paul R. Sheridan, Timothy F. Ousley
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
Terry J. Fain, Cyndie B. Gareleck
An Introduction to UNIX Shell Programming and the SAS System
Gregory S. Nelson, Glenn Leavell
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
Thomas C. Chenier, Paul Vos
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
Reesa L. Laws, Mary Longacre Newgard
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
Robert Chu, Susan Tideman
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
Lyn Whitaker, Michael D. Whitaker
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
Deb Cassidy, Lori D. Griffin
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
Peter Parker, R. Keith Daly
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
Susan J. Slaughter, Lora D. Delwiche
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
Frank C. Dilorio, Nancy J. Michal
Data-Independent Application Development with SAS/ AF Software FRAME Entry
John Leveille, Don Williams
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
Jon M. Lindenauer, Eric C. Burdge, John W. Philpot
Developing Applications &Development Tools Using Release 6.11 of the SAS
System
Merry G. Rabb, Philip Van Dusen, Stuart B. Levine
Developing Applications the SAM Way
Steve Binning, Annette Runsteen
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)
Prue R. Phillips, Pippa M. Simpson
Enumeration Technique for Efficient Clinical Laboratory Reports
Estimating Optimal Transformations in Non-Linear Models
Nicholas Scott Cardell, Dan Steinberg
Estimating and Evaluating Correlation Structures in Repeated Measures Designs
Using the GLM and MIXED Procedures
Maribeth H. Johnson, Tom Baranowski
Exact Methods in the NPAR1WAY Procedure
Anupama Narayanan, Donna L. Watts
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
Phil Busby, Arturo Barnos, Sally Muller
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
Marge Scerbo, Alan C. Wilson
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
Greg Rogers, Ellen Joyner
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
Verna Brantley, Helen Untern
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
Helen D. Carey, Ginger Carey
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
Robert Hood, Mark Apodaca
Imputation of Data Missing Due to Truncation --- A SAS Macro for Maximum
Likelihood Estimates Using Symmetry Property
Zhengyu Wang, Viswanathan Ramakrishnan, John M. Davis
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
Neil H. Howard, Linda W. Pickle, James B. Pearson, Jr.
JOining Strategies Access to All Data
Caroline C. Bahler, Stephen Clos
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
Andres Medaglia, Edgar Blanco
Loading a Data Warehouse with Legacy Data
Clive Cooper, Clare Somerville
MACRO Facifity Enhancements for Release 6.09E and Release 6.11
Jeffrey A. Polzin, Susan M. O'Connor
MARS Modeling in SAS Software USing the Macro Interface to B34S
MIS Swiss Telecom PTT
MImic Your Business Process with SAS/EIS Software
Helen-Jean Talbott, Alberto Cordoba
Macros for Calculating Block and Rolling Averages
Macros to Create 3-Dimensional Plots and Charts with SAS/GRAPH Software
Mainframe Directions
Gary Burchett, David Quattlebaum
Making Sense Out of Census Data
Making the VISUAL Leap From PROC TABULATE to SASIGRAPH Software
Managing SAS Data Sets: A Database Management Perspective
Stephen Clos, Caroline C. Bahler
Managing Data for a Long-Term Clinical Research Study with SAS/ASSIST
Software
Managing SAS/AF Application Development on a Local Area Network
Michael Kilhullen, Andrea Contino
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
S. David Riba, Elisabeth A. Riba
OLE and the SAS System for Windows Release 6.11
Jennifer B. Clegg, Carol Williams Rigsbee
Online Documentation of the SAS System: Release 6.11 and Beyond
Kathryn Council, Elizabeth Malcom
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
Kathleen A. Travis, Stephan Arndt, Nancy C. Andreasen
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
Samuel Berestizhevsky, Tanya Kolosova
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
Craig Dickstein, Marge Scerbo
Real Time Data Collection with SAS System Applications
Receiving &Distributing Data Nationally: A SAS Software Solution to HEDIS
Reporting
Christopher Yindra, Sue Freimuth
Redesigning a Legacy: Techniques of a Quality Partner
Remote and OPEN Access to Enterprise Data: Enhanced Distributed Data Access
Through Multiple Engine Architecture
Jack Wallace, Bill Brideson, Cheryl A. Garner
Repeated Measures - A Better way?
Repeated Measures Analysis with Discrete Data Using the SAS System
Residence Data Warehouse: Pacific Bell "Jumps "to WARP Speed
Larry D. Bramblett, Ann S. King
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
Joe Perry, F. Merrill Matlovich
SAS Program Efficiency for Beginners
SAS Programming Standards or Nobody's Gonna Tell Me What to Do!
Michael L. Sperling, John Olson
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
Jen-Hur Wu, Tse-Chih Hsia, Yu-Wen Li, Serval Tsai
SAS Software: One Stop Shopping for Re-engineering
SAS Tools &Internet
Charles E. Shipp, Kirk Paul Lafter, Sunil K. Gupta
SAS/AF FRAME Entries: A Hands-on Introduction
SAS/AF FRAMES: List Objects
Serge Dupuis, Loretta Goldby
SAS/AF Software - A Grand Tour
SAS/EIS Software - SPRINTing to the Rescue
J. Jacob Wind, Claude Griffith, Glenn Phillips
SAS/GRAPH Software: Doing More with Less ANNOTATE
SAS/SPECTRAVIEW, A First Look at Your Data
Aaron Hill, Ronald E. Stogner
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
Donald W. Peterson, Lothar Tremmel
Software Validation and Testing
Solving Business Problems with the SOL Procedure
Kirk Paul Lafler, Sunil K. Gupta
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
Barbara B. Okerson, Paul Quaranta
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
Stephanie Kuhnel, Leigh Anderson, Greg Gittins
Temporal and Geographical Statistical Modeling: A New Paradigm
M. W. Hemphill, Thomas W. Sager
Test of Hypotheses in Repeated Measures Models Under General Antedependence
Covariance Structures in SAS Software
Raul E. Macchiavelli, E. Barry Moser
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
Gretchen K. Jones, Linda W. Pickle, Michael Mungiole
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
Stephen M. Beatrous, Bill Brideson, Daniel J. Squillace, Jan Squillace
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
N. Clay Greene, John Ah-Sen
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
Jerry J. Hosking, Sandra Webb, Teresia Arthur
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
Neil Fleming, Eric Gibson, David Fleming
Using PROC PLAN for Randomization Assignments
Using SAS Software to Assess and Adjust for Nonlinearity in Nonlinear
RegreSSion Models
Timothy E. O'Brien, Ye Wang
Using SAS Software to Perform Meta-Analytic Integrations
Using SAS Software to Perform Multivariate Adjustment of Regression
Coefficients Corrected for Regression Dilution Bias
Greg A. Grandits, Patricia Grambsch
Using SAS Views for Data Source Visualization
Using SAS/EIS Software to Front End and Exploit Your Data Warehouse
Ben T. Cochran, James Alessio, Dennis B. Catley
Using SAS/STAT Software for Nonparametric 2-Way Analysis of Variance: A
Biomedical Device Process Validation Problem
Timothy L. Beck, Sandra Weinert
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
John McIntyre, Marc Halsted
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?
Kenneth A. Hardy, Sally Muller, Arturo Barrios