Thank you so much Koen. Let's wait up for SAS South Africa and let's use private mails too. There is a lot on this topic I think we can discuss on privately. My email is on my profile. Cheers, Obed  ... View more

Hi Koen, How nice to have you touch base with SAS South Africa! You are trilingual then; French, English and Flemish. It's advantageous to come from a country like yours. Very nice.    I stay tuned to have the feedback from South Africa. Cheers Obed ... View more

Hi Koen Each time you reach out I get to discover something new about SAS.   Cameroon is a bilingual country with both French and English as their national languages. I am English speaking because I am born and bred in the Anglophone region of the country. However, I equally have a mastery of the French language.   Coming back to the findings you promised making, I’d prefer you to get in touch with the SAS office in South Africa if they have any funding or a potential co-writer for the paper. South Africa itself is very far from Cameroon… I am a bit skeptical about proximity. Anyways, this can be handled online.      If that doesn’t work, I wouldn’t have to bother you any longer. I’ll endeavor to solve the problem myself after the training. Cheers Obed ... View more

Hi Koen Thanks for such helpful feedback. As a new user, I didn’t anticipate it’d take that long for the estimations to be done. I therefore completely understand when you say expecting a volunteer to show up for the entire work could be a little uphill.   I however in these circumstances wish I could have someone who could give me the conditions for guidance or for working together. It is true that I don’t have a budget for a personal paper like the one I am currently writing. I am in Cameroon and I wonder whether there is a SAS-consulting office here that could assist an academic research of this nature.   If I can’t have support or anybody to work with at this stage, then I will have to wait and finish up with my SCYP training. I’m glad you indicated that “things will be 1000 times easier after SCYP”. I appreciate your sense of accommodation. Cheers Obed ... View more

Hi, Thank you for the speedy response.   Since my SCYP training with take a couple of months and I'd like to submit my article to a publishing house, I would appreciate it if an expert can handle the modeling while I pursue my SCYP training.   I have several other articles I intend to work on and I will be able to use my knowledge from SCYP training for future articles.   I would really still be glad to have an expert help in the estimations. Apart from that I have no other worry for now.    Cheers Obed  ... View more

Dear Koen, Thanks immensely for the wonderful insight. While we await @BeverlyBrown or @ChrisHemedinger or someone else with super-powers to move this topic, my dataset is still offline on Excel 2013 sheets.   I am yet to understand the basics of moving forward with uploading it in CAS so I don’t yet have information on %PUT &=sysvlong4; %PUT &=sysscp; neither do I have information on the LOG.   I am barely starting with the SAS Software Certified Young Professionals Program (SAS SCYP) with the software package that goes along with it. Since this is only my second day of classes I don’t fully grasp which of the versions are most suitable for use in the AIDS model.   Before developing interest in SAS, it is thanks to the following links you sent. I think I have come across them before https://support.sas.com/rnd/app/ets/examples/simpelast/index.htm https://support.sas.com/rnd/app/ets/examples/aids/index.htm https://support.sas.com/rnd/app/ets/examples/aids/sas.htm   I saw them once doing research online. This was some weeks back and I noticed that it was possible using the AIDS model and SAS to estimate its parameters. That is why I became more interested and have decided to take a course in the software.   I really hope to have expertise that will permit me do the estimations or better still work with the guidance of an expert so that I can go ahead with the publication of my paper.   I look forward to hearing from you and from other great minds in the forum. Cheers OFung ... View more