Right-click on the program or egp project---->you'll see opens with---->click on change-------->choose the sas application ... View more

Stepwise selection procedures do not necessarily select just "significant" terms in a classical sense. In fact, tests of significance within the stepwise procedures are quite controversial, and p values may not have simple meanings (the extreme multiple testing causes all kinds of problems). Many stepwise selection methods are liberal, so that possible models are not discarded too readily. Thus, all the terms selected may not be significant when using them in a single model (separate procedure) (as if there was no stepwise selection). You can change the selection criteria in various procedures to make it more difficult to include terms. ... View more

Historical data at http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/briefroom/BriefRm 6 month forecasts at http://www.forecasts.org/economic-indicator/index.htm If you work in a company, your company can purchase forecasts for a lot more economic indicators/variables from firms that deal in these kind of services like Global Insight (http://www.ihsglobalinsight.com/) Hope this helps. datalligence http://datalligence.blogspot.com/ ... View more

Hello - I'm not completely sure I'm getting your point, but here are some thoughts anyway: when using explanatory variables in your models it will be crucial to have future values of these variables in order to calculate the forecast for the dependent variable. As such I think I would go with actual numbers, as they reflect what was happening in fact - not the "wishful thinking" of ours. What you will need to do is to create forecasts for your independent variable first (if you don't have future estimates - or use the forecasts of your marketing folks as future values) and then create the prediction of the dependent variable. In fact, you might consider doing a what-if analysis, i.e. testing what happens if you change the future values of your dependent variables. Note that this is an out-of-the-box feature of SAS Forecast Studio - which is part of SAS Forecast Server. Thanks! Udo ... View more

Hello - Not sure of your specific situation, but there are cases where a crosscorrelation value of -1 is of practical usage. See for example: http://jds.fass.org/cgi/reprint/75/7/1891.pdf. Taken from there: "The significant negative crosscorrelation between milk yield and cholesterol on the same day suggests that serum cholesterol may be removed in milk or, more probably, that alterations in metabolism required for increased milk yield result in lower blood cholesterol." Regards, Udo Message was edited by: udo@sas ... View more

I think it doesn't like the symbols. Here's the rest: le calculated shipdt le '11JUL2009'd and a.no_charge_ind ^= 'Y' and a.cancelled_item_status_dt = . and a.sales_brand_cd in ('A','W','E','I','P') and a.source_mkt ^in ('BRP Cash Management Dev','Cash Management Dev.') and calculated promo_method_cd ^in ('G','7','m') having substr(a.prod_id,1,5) in ('53251' '53252' '53253' '53254' '53151' '53152' '53153' '53154'); Quit; ... View more

Wonderful insight. Thank you very much!! ... View more

Hey, it worked! I knew it had to be something incredibly simple. Thanks!!! ... View more

If the X and Y values are menat to be the actual values then your XSYS and YSYS values should be 2. Absolute values in the Data area. ... View more

You can read raw data from WinZip files. See http://support.sas.com/kb/26/011.html . This uses the PIPE option which still requires disk storage, but it is immediately deleted. Similarly, this SUGI paper has examples http://www2.sas.com/proceedings/forum2007/005-2007.pdf , though it extracts the files to temporary storage. I doubt that you can read SAS datasets (.sas7bdat extensions) that way because they need to be direct access. ... View more

the Note, following me, is comming from the number 3 which is printed on the axis so at the limit of the data area! j=l is only meaning left and it doesn't matter here and the functionning of the repeat is issued from some try as this was working symbol3 v=dot pointlabel=("#n" c=red position=top); use of a x ou y and even the following was not working symbol3 v=dot pointlabel=("#alpha" c=red position=top); so would i have luck or not? and i tried the repeat=11 but in fact repeat=2 is working already ! The mystery in inside Sas. Andre ... View more

For those using Unix, a shell program like the following could catch common errors: #!/bin/ksh if [ $# != 1 ] then echo "Usage: mylogchecker.sh " exit -1 fi grep -n ERROR ./$1 grep -n WARNING ./$1 grep -in UNINITIALIZED ./$1 grep -in CONVERTED ./$1 grep -in REPEATS ./$1 grep -in 'BY ZERO' ./$1 grep -in UNKNOWN ./$1 grep -in 49-169 ./$1 exit ... View more

Hello sassygrl. You can copy the data without changing the date modified of the datasets. You can automate a batch file to run through windows task scheduler to xcopy the files on a regular basis. START > RUN > cmd > ENTER. type: xcopy / help . This will give you an idea of how to use xcopy. Once you understand how xcopy works you can test it by writing the command in a .txt file and then saving the file with a .bat extension. Just double click on the .bat file to run the script. Cheers. ... View more