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whitepaper Updates to SAS Power and Sample Size Software in SAS/STAT 9.22008-03-13 SAS Institute
  Procedures for power analysis and sample size determination were introduced in SAS/STAT 9.1 along with a Web application for performing these analyses. SAS/STAT 9.2 adds analyses for several new designs, enhances some existing analyses, and replaces the Web application with a desktop application for your PC. The new analyses include logistic regression; confidence intervals, equivalence tests, and noninferiority tests for a binomial proportion; and the Wilcoxon Mann-Whitney test for two distributions. These new analyses join the ones already available with SAS/STAT 9.1: general linear univariate models, one-way ANOVA, multiple regression, t tests, confidence intervals and equivalence tests of means, tests of proportions, and survival rank tests.

Tags: Data Mining - Analysis, Data Visualization		   
whitepaper SAS Stat Studio: A Programming Environment for High-End Data Analysts2008-03-13 SAS Institute
  SAS Stat Studio 3.1 is new statistical software in SAS 9.2 that is designed to meet the needs of high-end data analysts - innovative problem solvers who are familiar with SAS/STAT and SAS/IML but need more versatility to try out new methods. Stat Studio provides a rich programming language, called IMLPlus, that blends an Interactive Matrix Language (IML) with the ability to call SAS procedures as functions and to create customized dynamic graphics. For standard tasks, Stat Studio provides the same interactive graphics and statistical capabilities available in SAS/INSIGHT, and so it serves as a programmable successor to SAS/INSIGHT.

Tags: Programming Languages, Data Mining - Analysis		   
whitepaper Getting Started With ODS Statistical Graphics in SAS 9.22008-03-13 SAS Institute
  ODS Statistical Graphics (or ODS Graphics for short) is major new functionality for creating statistical graphics that is available in a number of SAS software products, including SAS/STAT, SAS/ETS, SAS/QC, and SAS/GRAPH. With the production release of ODS Graphics in SAS 9.2, over sixty statistical procedures have been modified to use this functionality, and they now produce graphs as automatically as they produce tables. In addition, new procedures in SAS/GRAPH use this functionality to produce plots for exploratory data analysis and for customized statistical displays. SAS/GRAPH is required for ODS Graphics functionality in SAS 9.2. This paper presents the essential information one needs to get started with ODS Graphics in SAS 9.2.

Tags: Data Mining - Analysis, Data Visualization		   
whitepaper What's New in the 4.2 Releases of SAS Enterprise Guide and the SAS Add-In for Microsoft Office2008-03-13 SAS Institute
  SAS Enterprise Guide, the SAS Add-In for Microsoft Office for SAS 9.2, and SAS Enterprise BI Server 4.2 provide many new enhancements to help SAS programmers, business analysts, and other business users become more productive with SAS. This presentation will introduce the user to some of the highlights, including a revamped User Interface (UI) in SAS Enterprise Guide, the ability to open SAS Reports from the SAS Add-In, a new PROC REPORT-based wizard, and much more. This paper gives a broad overview of the products and enhancements and point one to some of the other SAS Global Forum presentations that cover some of the specific enhancements in greater depth. One will find many reasons to upgrade to the new releases or to become a new SAS user.

Tags: Programming Languages		   
whitepaper What's New in SAS/ACCESS2008-03-13 SAS Institute
  The group of SAS/ACCESS products contains many enhancements, features and new products. The ACCESS R&D group also supports sister technologies, which include Metadata utilities and SQL textualization. It is beyond the scope of this paper to detail all of the modifications made in the SAS/ACCESS engines for SAS 9.2; however, documentation resources and highlights should help one discover how one can take advantage of the SAS 9.2 SAS/ACCESS enhancements.

Tags: Database Management, Database Applications		   
whitepaper Deployment for SAS 9.2 and Beyond2008-03-13 SAS Institute
  As the SAS architecture has grown to serve the complex and distributed challenges of enterprise-wide deployments, the tools used to plan, deliver, install, and configure SAS software have needed to grow in lockstep. The 9.2 release of the SAS Enterprise Intelligence Platform delivers an accompanying revolution in the way SAS software is deployed. The paper will summarize advancements such as electronic software download, customized orders, silent installations, streamlined dialog boxes, deployment capture/replay, and SAS Software Depot management. Looking further into the future, SAS Deployment R&D already has several innovative efforts underway. The paper will close by describing initiatives in the areas of open source standards and tools, update services, and Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) framework adoption.   
whitepaper Creating Complex Reports2008-03-13 SAS Institute
  This paper is for intermediate SAS programmers who want to see a gallery of complex reports and review the code that produced them. It covers the pros and cons of PROC REPORT, PROC TABULATE, and DATA _NULL_ for each report. All report output is produced using ODS (rather than LISTING) output. Get out the wrenches and tool belts and fasten one's seat belt for the ride, this is going to be a real nuts and bolts paper presentation.

Tags: Programming Languages		   
whitepaper Going Beyond Simple Information Maps to Improve Access to Data Sources2008-03-13 SAS Institute
  SAS Information Maps provide users with easy access to rather simply-defined data sources. Although they can be directed to external relational databases, performance can be an issue due to the way in which queries are built and passed via the LIBNAME engine within the SAS/Access products. In addition, sometimes it is necessary to perform nested queries to databases in order to provide more meaningful information in reports. This paper will explore options to assure performance and go beyond simple table joins to provide easier access to end users.

Tags: Business Intelligence - Data Warehousing		   
whitepaper SAS for Real-Time Applications2008-03-13 SAS Institute
  The SAS language is well suited for expressing program logic; people have been using it for over 30 years. There are many applications for building predictive models and then deploying these models to provide scores "On demand" as integrated components in a larger system. The paper describes and explores several patterns for using SAS in a real-time or near-real-time context, and describes the performance characteristics of each pattern. 1. Stored Processes; 2. Web Services; 3. Raw Sockets; 4. Message Queues.

Tags: Business Intelligence - Data Warehousing, Application Development		   
whitepaper New Architecture and Speed With a Netezza Data Warehouse Appliance2008-03-13 SAS Institute
  One of the biggest challenges organizations have is how they store and retrieve for analysis large amounts of data. This problem has plagued industries for years. As data sizes grow into Terabytes and Petabytes, organizations continue to face these challenges as users want to analyze and report on 'The whole data'. SAS has partnered with Netezza, a Data Warehouse Appliance vendor. This vendor is a pioneer of the self-contained warehouse appliance, which contains a database, storage and SQL processing. Each appliance contains 108 computers and storage disks to offer intelligent, massive parallel processing with load rates of 500GB per hour, all at an economical price in comparison to Teradata.

Tags: Data Mining - Analysis, Business Intelligence - Data Warehousing